Essay
Do Fathers Have The Right To Know?
This bill is about the right of a legal father or biological father to know if their child is being placed under adoption. So if man didn't know they had a child and they found out they were going to be placed under adoption they would have had a chance to gain prenatal rights. Letting the father know would give him the chance to let his parents know to have a better chance for a placement of blood relation.
Under this bill, all family members or close friends of their parents can have a say in what happens to said child and where they go. Even if it's not a blood relation, it's all what they believe is best for the child. So they could placed with a very distant family relative even if they weren't related but only if it was in their best interest.
The child would have the opportunity to get to know their family and get to know their roots. But also they would get to stay within their family and people the child knows and not have to go with strangers they didn't know. For a child, it can be scary to be sent to live with someone else you don't know at all or have never seen before.
Depending on whether the father does get granted custody if he is to show unwanted behavior in front of the child. For example, getting drunk, smoking, coming home late, or sleeping around. Those are things that you don't want your child to be influenced by and in not in any way in the best interest of the child. There for all that work that was done was for nothing cause it wasn't the right placement for the child even if it was their father.
SF 2106 as introduced - 93rd Legislature (2023 - 2024). (n.d.). https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF2106&session=ls93&version=latest&session_number=0&session_year=2023
Sec. 259.52 MN Statutes. (n.d.). https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/259.52#:~:text=(a)%20The%20commissioner%20of%20health,adoption%20proceeding%20to%20the%20putative