Mom Loses Custody Over Breast Cancer

A North Carolina mother is losing primary custody of her children because of her stage 4 breast cancer. Ana Kasparian and Ben Mankiewicz discuss an ABC News report on the topic.

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• Mother
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[MavenCree]

The kids will end up resenting the dad for taking away the last days they have with their mom. He's eventually going to have full custody by default anyway. Let them have their time with her.

[meriprem]

@britawni - OMG! Someone on this Channel with a brain! And is HUMAN!!!!

I am sincerely surprised to read a humane and caring insight here.

[dved2265]

Umm everybody on here is stupid what the heck all these men on here talking about she cheated i dont know if he didnt cheat either its he said she said stuff somethin caused her to go cheat on him was he paying her any attention nobody knows what went on in their house hold all of you people are going by what the internet said and how do you people know how much money she has you don't live with her your just going by what your reading and my opinion is he shouldn't have got custody wether she

[br6nf75]

either way, the father/ex is a bastard. PERIOD

[orion00]

@usucdik "She lost it because of some arbitrary decision by a third party." You don't know it was arbitrary but you'd like to think it was.

Fact: You know less about the case than both the judge and the psychiatrist evaluating it and yes seem to think your uninformed opinion is the better answer.

I'm not trying to be insulting but it baffles me that people who hear one side of the story and have just a glancing view of the case seem to think their opinions right.

[dlindstadt]

jeez ana you're wayyyy off the rails on this one. Should the cheated-on husband/father with the job move closer to help accommodate the stay at home mother? ....giimmmeeeaabbrreaakk....

[nick42701]

@usucdik

and for that reason alone, I can't figure out why you're trying to prove me wrong. If you haven't lived it, then don't act like you know what's going on. I'm sure you couldn't reccite ONE general statute when it comes to the guidelines that most judges abide by. I bet you've never even been through divorce. I'm sure you're not paying excessive mandated amounts of child support. You're the one who looks like a fool my friend, because of your blatant ignorance to this subject.

[nick42701]

@usucdik

It's not just what I went through, but what 1000's of fathers go through everytime they have a custody hearing. It was n't JUST because she had cancer. Don't make it out to be so simple. It's a lot more complicated than that. And as I said previously, I wouldn't expect you to understand. All you would have to do is try and research the subject a bit to see what really happens in family court. I can tell you're someone who has never gone through child custody issues

[usucdik]

@nick42701 So basically you're enraged because of whatever previous personal experience that happened to you, and now you're going for a little catharsis by pretending this situation is somehow similar to what you went through.

Face facts: she had custody. She wasn't winning custody because of her cancer. She lost it because of some arbitrary decision by a third party.

Your little crusade for fathers is irrelevant, and you look like a damn fool trying to shoehorn it into this.

[nick42701]

@meriprem

Sorry, I don't take your comment as an insult, but I've been studying the family court system now for well over 6 years. I've you want to hear something that might change your mind, look up one of the leading men on the forefront of fathers rights, Dr. Stephen Baskerville. He's a doctor of law and political science, and he's an advocate of the biggest fathers right group in America. I'm not full of hate and rage, just frustration, for the way fathers are portrayed in this country