Kid-napping (term used sort of tongue-in-cheek to mask the pain of the loss) made easy in just three simple steps:
1. tell the custodial parent all through the school year that you "cannot afford" to fly the child out for visitation
2. let the child know that you, the out-of-town parental unit, are the "victim" parent in the equation
3. once you have the child in your residence for summer visitation simply refuse to put them back on the plane (without telling that parent) to the residential custodial parent's home.
Sound too good to be true? Well it's not! And it happened to this residential custodian this very year!
What is a parent to do? Well, the law is on the side of the primary residential custodial parent--but all it takes is money for the lawyers and travels expenses and court costs necessary to retrieve one's child.
I never used to understand why it was so easy for individuals to "kid-nap" children (often their own biologic children), but I am now painfully getting the picture.
(As a footnote, remember to secure the "kid-napped" child's loyalty in the new local with promises of various trips and many new material possessions.)
Mean people suck.
Hearts are broken.
parenting
behavior
children
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