it does not say, but either way, why would a father stay away from his child for 3 weeks, seperated or not? I get so mad, when i see families, without daddy, and I get mad at my husband, because he will not even call his other kids, to me, that says to much about any man, if he refuses to fight to see his kids, maybe he had a reason, but it did not say </font>[/QUOTE]I agree there is no reason why he should have not been in contact with his child. When family values break down it leads no where good.

Mistral4543 I have to agree with you there this child will do amazing things.

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personally i would believe the father would believe the mother was saying after all she is the mother.

i hope you dont say it in a general term stormymystic. some guys dont say thier reason at all because of thier own personal reason. and some guys do fight for thier children, while others dont..maybe one of the reasons? because maybe they feel insucure and unsure on how to take care of the child or maybe they feel inadequete that they let the mothers take care of the child so they dont fight in the first place for thier children. of course there are bad fathers but hey there will always be both good and bad fathers.

Blame the mother. If the father doesn't have any custody rights then why would he look in on his daughter and perhaps the mother won't let him see his daughter. There are many reasons one would not fight for custody 1) with the courts the way they are the man loses 90% of the time 2) it's easier on the kids. Not to mention whether he was the sole provider for the family (which is quite possible seeing as the mother is crazy). If he was then he's working to support both the mother and daughter! I don't think it's right that all I hear is blame.

i am not so sure we are trying to blame the father for the little girls neglect. that is obviously the mothers fault. what i question is that even men who have very little custody of their kids usually get them everyother weekend. but of course we don't know his situtation. he could actually live two far away for everyother weekend to work, or he may work hard 7 days a week. it could also be that the neighbor was well trusted and that is why he did not check.

either way i am not blaming him, he is her savior. no one else was showing up to care for her. he did a wonderful thing getting his daughter to the help she needs.

one thing i worry about that they didn't mention was whether or not the child had any type of diaper rash or if she had been laying on one part of the bed for very long bed sores. after dealing with severe diaper rashes in my own children that are not caused by three weeks of neglect, i feel so sorry for her tushy.

I agree i have a 5 month old brother and if that ever happened i would tell my parents so bad but that would never happen so...

I read that the other day, and some people just absolutely disgust me. How could you do that to a 2 year old kid and just not care. Its people like this that cause the degradation of society. How did she end up with the kid anyway instead of the father? Obviously the father at least cared about the kid.