Watched the movie "I Am Sam" and....(kind of long - little venting too)
Quick Summary of the movie:(Sean Penn, Michelle Pfieiffer Dakota Fanning) A developmentally disable man has a child with a women who runs out on him and their daughter as they are going home from the hosptial. The little girl turns out the be "normal." He has a job (working at Starbucks) and does everything he knows how to raise the little girl. He isnt afraid to ask for help from his friends (who are also developmentally disabled) or this older lady neighbor. He goes to school meetings, buys her shoes for school, throws her a birthday party and takes her to the park. The little girl eventually gets taken away from the father and put in to foster care because she is smarter then her father. He makes his visits with her while she is in foster care and she sneeks out of the foster home to see him. He has to hire a lawyer to help him get her back. He doesnt have the money so a lawyer does it for free. He eventually regains custody of his "normal" child after many tests, protests, court hearings, child visits, and other obstcles.
The movie is a very real thing that could happen in life and I find it disturbing that a man that is developmentally disabled and working to get by and giving his daughter everything that she needs is questioned and made to fight for the rights to his daughter when there are men out there that are are not working and are so willing to give up their rights or neglect them either get rights to their children or are willing to hand off so that they dont have to take responsibility for their actions. I start to wonder where our goverment has messed up. You challenge the man who wants to take responsibility and not help him with it but we dont question the intentions of the man who walks away from them or neglects them but request money from him. I rather have a guy that is willing to take the responsibility for (his child or not- thoes few good men out there) then have the money of a dirtbag father that walks away from a child because he doesnt want to "deal" with baby mama. HINT: You should have thought about that before you slept with her not after the fact.
Piece of advice to men out there:If you dont really want children WEAR a condom!
The movie is a very real thing that could happen in life and I find it disturbing that a man that is developmentally disabled and working to get by and giving his daughter everything that she needs is questioned and made to fight for the rights to his daughter when there are men out there that are are not working and are so willing to give up their rights or neglect them either get rights to their children or are willing to hand off so that they dont have to take responsibility for their actions. I start to wonder where our goverment has messed up. You challenge the man who wants to take responsibility and not help him with it but we dont question the intentions of the man who walks away from them or neglects them but request money from him. I rather have a guy that is willing to take the responsibility for (his child or not- thoes few good men out there) then have the money of a dirtbag father that walks away from a child because he doesnt want to "deal" with baby mama. HINT: You should have thought about that before you slept with her not after the fact.
Piece of advice to men out there:If you dont really want children WEAR a condom!
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