The snatchback an article about a young boy who was born in the United States who lives with his mothers ex-husband, went to visits his biological father Jason in Costa Rica. The boy Andres call his stepfather, Todd Hopson, ”dad” for the first 9 years of his life. He played little league baseball that Todd has nourished. Andres mother Helen decided that she wanted to go to Costa Rica to visit relatives and Andres’s biological father. Thats where it all came to blows on who has rights on the boy. The biological father Jason decided to keep the boy and now wants the paternity rights and kept him. Jason was not willing to let go of Andres and Jason wanted to what was right even though he never made the claim to being the biological father when the boy was born. Helen wanted to keep the boy but was termed an unfit mother due to her drug habits. Todd went three years trying to battle the legal systems. So the story turns into a Snatchback. Even though Todd was not the legal father, Andres wanted to be with the only father he knew. Todd hired someone to do the snatching. Gus Zamora, clams to have returned 54 children to the left-behind parent. With some strategy, hired guns, alternate vehical, and an escape plan they planned to get Andres back. Gus did his work and was payed 40,000 dollars for the job. Andres is back in Florida and playing little league baseball, like he never left.
I never believed that these things happen and as the stories goes it happens all over the country. But why put young children through this process where it will cause more pain. I dont know what Helen was thinking on taking the poor child to see his biological father, but in return caused a lot of pain in the child, ex-husband, and the father. Although Andres is back with the only father he knew, he now knows that there could be danger lurking on ever corner. Todd should have thought about the outcome in marrying Helen and thought to the unborn child. Things we do out of love, causing trouble in the long run. If we could make the world a better place for children by the snap of a finger then I would, so that children would live with the love parents should be able to give to kids.
I can help but wonder what my children would do if we were to spilt and it is a hard picture to conjure up. Out of love for my children i would never put them in a situation where they have to switch homes or have to choose which parent to be with during the holidays. Thats too much for a child to bear.
November 24, 2009 at 12:15 am |
Wow, this is a lot of things for one child to decide. But If I were that child I don’t think that I would want to see my biological father, even if I had to. I would never see him. Because I probably would think that I got this far without him, why stop now. I never been in this situation and I hope that I will never be in one. I hear all these stories about families that are like that, I think that it is really sad and it’s very painful. For example: my cousin brother is in a situation like this. His mother left him with my aunty almost three years ago. I feel really bad for him, because he never his father left him and now his mother left him. Now he’s staying with my aunt. I try to help him out as much as I could, and try to give him love for both of his parents. I teach him everything about what to do, and what not to do. It’s hard; he asks me every now and then when his mother is coming back. But I just tell him that we don’t need her, and that we can make it through without her in your life. And he agrees with me, and wipes away his tears and a smile creeps up behind his sad face. Before his mother left, it was my grandma that was taking care of him. But now she’s gone, and it seems like he doesn’t know what to do anymore. But I help him get through it, along with my other family members. I don’t think that I will never do this to my children also. It’s just going to mess with their heads and minds. It’s going to be too much deciding whether they should stay with their mother or with me, their father.