HIV is not cancer, of course, but the idea is the same: serious illness should not be held against parents if they are capable of taking care of their children.
In Florida, points out family law attorney Hal Roen, there is a statute that prohibits a diagnosis of HIV from being used as a determining factor in custody battles. It’s not a big jump from, ‘I don’t want Mom to have custody because she has stage 4 cancer’ to ‘I don’t want Mom to have custody because she’s a smoker.'” “We certainly wouldn’t want to have legislation suggesting that parenting is going to be contingent on being in peak health. “It’s a bad precedent,” says Art Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. But it’s the role that terminal illness has played that has rallied irate mothers and more than a few experts to Giordano’s side, while simultaneously shining a spotlight on the tug-of-war that is child custody. ( More on : Should a Disabled Mom Be Banned from Seeing Her Kids?)įor sure, Giordano’s breast cancer is but one aspect of what has proved to be a textbook messy divorce, replete with charges of abuse, cheating and mental illness. On her blog, she said she has spent the past 16 months “defending myself from the attacks of my abusive husband who filed a lawsuit against me in Durham County, N.C., asking for full, permanent custody of our two children using the argument that I have a cancer diagnosis.” In August, Giordano says her husband, Kane Snyder, moved to the Chicago area for work, leaving the kids with her. Children want a normal childhood, and it is not normal with an ill parent.”
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They divide their world into the cancer world and a free of cancer world. Helen Brantley,” according to Good Morning America: “The more contact have with the non-ill parent, the better they do. “In her ruling, Judge Nancy Gordon cited forensic psychologist Dr. Judge Nancy Gordon ordered Giordano’s children, Sofia, 11, and Bud, 5, to relocate by June 17 from Durham, N.C., to Chicago to live with their father even though Giordano, who says she is strong and able to parent, reports her metastatic cancer is under control. woman must give up custody of her two children to her husband, who lives in Chicago, in part because “children who have a parent with cancer need more contact with the non-ill parent.” Follow Giordano was already engaged in a battle royale, fighting Stage 4 breast cancer, when her struggle intensified recently: a judge ruled that the N.C.
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