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that's moving and talking the whole, I want to see um, the knowledge that anybody can threaten custody, anybody in the state, huh? Look like someone would take justice away from you. My first instinct would be to take him and run. It would depend on how

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involved I was with my household and um, other projects around me and how much support it looked like I could get financially. I don't know what x exclusively feminine role and I wouldn't do that to another person. Can't planet until I know what my situation is

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at that time. Do you think having a gay mother will affect justice in any way I do? And I think you'll have a real good effect on him. I think that he's exposed to lots of free choices. He's exposed to different kinds of lifestyles and he's

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exposed to, he knows what the choices are. I mean, he has a lot more options than I did. I had to go look for other ways to live and and he sees Children who aren't related, living to eat with each other and adults being responsible for

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the Children who aren't their genetic parents. And he knows there's more than one way to live. What does john lesbian mother lives constantly in fear that she's going to lose her Children. She has to fear not only that the husband will come back and try to

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claim the Children, She has to also fear that other institutions, county welfare people may try to come in and claim that she's an unfit mother because she's a lesbian and try to place their Children in foster homes. A lot of women are blackmailed into uh giving

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up their right to child support in return for not having the husband's challenge them on the basis of their lesbianism. So in order to keep their Children, they struggle along without any support. That is extremely common. What happens to a lesbian mother if, if a custody

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case gets to court, well, if it gets to court, which is rare, ah, most lesbian mothers who are not living with a lover, I think end up keeping their Children if if they've had the Children with them for some period of time, If the woman is

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living with a lover, several courts have forced her to choose what the courts regard is the contamination of the lesbianism. What happens if if