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“A Father’s Struggle to Stop His Daughter’s Adoption Cont’d.”

August 4, 2016April 27, 2017 Sky Is The Limit FoundationLeave a comment

Last summer, I wrote a feature article for The Atlantic on Christopher Emanuel’s struggle to stop his daughter’s adoption. Chris had been in an interracial relationship with a young woman whose family…

“A Father’s Struggle to Stop His Daughter’s Adoption”

July 7, 2015April 27, 2017 Sky Is The Limit FoundationLeave a comment

Christopher Emanuel first met his girlfriend in the fall of 2012, when they were both driving forklifts at a warehouse in Trenton, South Carolina. She was one of a handful of women on the job; she was white and he was black. She ignored him at first, and Emanuel saw it as a challenge…

Single Fathers Should Get Notice About Adoptions

June 17, 2014January 17, 2017 Sky Is The Limit Foundation2 Comments

printed on June 13, 2014

“In South Carolina, where I’m from, the adoption laws generally allow birth mothers to decide whether to put newborns up for adoption.”

“But luckily for me the state’s Responsible Father Registry for single men who have, or are about to, father children, requires that they be notified if the child is put up for adoption. I had followed the advice of a friend and signed up when my partner was pregnant.”