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I am a father of three beautiful children. Each and every day I have
the blessing and opportunity to wake up to two of my children, and,
yet, each day that I am blessed to spend with them, I am reminded of
how much I miss my other child.
In 2005, my oldest and only daughter was born a few days after
my birthday. I can imagine that it was a joyful day, as the birth of
any healthy child is. But the first child is always special because it
is the first opportunity to witness the creation of a life you
created. Over the years, my daughter accomplished many milestones—her
first rollover, her first steps, her first tooth, yet I was not given
the opportunity to witness any of that. I never even witnessed her
birth or saw her as an infant.
It was not until 2008 that I came to know of my daughter. Her
mother, married with two older children, sent me a message on an
online social network stating that she thought her daughter might be mine.
I was unsure of what to do, but even in my uncertainty, I felt
compelled to do the right thing. I submitted to a DNA test, I
submitted to any requests made on the mother’s behalf in the best
interest of my daughter who I was not priveliged to meet until she
turned three years old.
My daughter is now eight years old. In this time, I have had to
take what little time I was given by her mother, often with the
qualifier of some financial request. I paid child support for several
years, but each time I saw my daughter, her clothes were tattered and
in poor condition, her hair was never combed, she has often been
plagued with ringworms and was wearing pull ups as recently as six
months ago. In light of this, I worked to obtain a new court order
which allowed me split custody. I was elated that my daughter would be
able to be in my home, a stable home with my wife and I and our two
sons.
I knew that I could provide balance and stability and meet her
needs in a way that she deserved. Yet still, her mother did not follow
through on the parameters of custody we established through the order,
so much so that the only way I could see my daughter was to have my
mother pick her up.
Recently, I was called into court for a request for temporary
child support. My daughter’s mother has never worked for more than a
month whether married or single. She has never maintained a residence
for more than six months at any time in my daughter’s life, often in
and out of seedy apartments and her own mother’s home with my daughter
and her other two children. I have always tried to be a support to my
child, but have often been denied and limited in my interaction.
I am asking for support for my daughter. Help my give my child
the option of having a better life. Help me fight for her to show her
that I am a good father who cares enough to not allow her suffer in
instability and poverty. Help me by donating to help cover my legal
fees as I seek full custody so that I can give my child a chance and
show the world that real fathers do exist, that they care and that
they, too, will give the world for their children.
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