If you want to terminate your parental rights, it means you permanently put an end to the relationship you have with your child in a legal sense.
The process varies from state to state, but you do have to explain to the court why you want to no longer be your child’s legal guardian and why it’s in the child’s best interest.
Normally, you move to terminate your parental rights if you can’t provide your child with the care they need, but there are, of course, other circumstances leading to a mom or dad wanting to do this.
For this mom, she wants to terminate her rights because she feels her son is a threat to her family – herself, her husband, and the other children in their household.
“Many people don’t believe me when I say that my own child is a psychopath, but he is,” she explained.
“His issue is that he is incapable of remorse and enjoys inflicting pain on others for the fun of it. And he does it with a big smile on his face.”
“If that is not psychopathy, then I don’t know what is. He’s 10 and is gradually getting [worse].”
Her son has harmed animals, his classmates, and his siblings. He’s also threatened to take her and her husband’s lives away.
She’s afraid he’s serious and actually capable of doing this. Lately, he’s developed an obsession surrounding knives and actually went to school with one, so he got expelled.
Arseniy Krasnevsky – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual person – pictured above a boy stands on some rocks, facing a lake
She’s tried putting her son in therapy. She’s tried punishing him. Sadly, nothing works because her son never feels remorse for what he does to hurt others. So, she’s worried that she and her husband are sitting ducks.
Her son is dangerous, and she wants to put a stop to the threat he poses to their entire family. She and her husband have already looked at all of their options, but they don’t have the money to hospitalize him for years on end, and they can’t afford to send him to a boarding school that could deal with him.
“As much as I hate this, I want us to terminate our parental rights, sell our home, change our identities, and move far, far away,” she said.
“My husband doesn’t want to give up on him, but I’m finally ready to. There’s nothing that can change him.”
“He is a ticking time bomb. And we have to protect our family, and the only way we can do that is to be far away from him.”
What advice do you have for her?
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