Has anyone gone the route of having the other parent give up parental rights?
My ex-husband/father of my child is psychotic, irresponsible, and almost entirely non-existent in our son's life. He complains constantly about the meager child support he has to pay, and has even threatened me physically because of it. He vandalizes my vehicle constantly so I will have to use the child support to pay for anything but the care of our son. He has keyed my car down to the metal three times, and has slashed 15 tires. It's getting old.
I'm tempted to offer him to sign off of his parental rights of our son. The primary reason being that when he does see him for the two hours a month he can manage, my son almost always returns with some kind of health issue that is too detailed to chronicle here. The secondary reason is to free him of his pathetic amount of child support so he can move on and leave me alone. And the third reason is to allow me the freedom to start a life somewhere new with my son without his interference.
I think if I mentioned this to him he would jump at the opportunity. But on the other hand, if we go down this route and he still wants a relationship with our son on some level, I'm not going to impede on that because my son deserves to know he has a father who loves him. I don't want to be the reason my son doesn't know his father - my ex can burn that bridge on his own. So then what's the point?
Thoughts? Opinions?
My ex-husband/father of my child is psychotic, irresponsible, and almost entirely non-existent in our son's life. He complains constantly about the meager child support he has to pay, and has even threatened me physically because of it. He vandalizes my vehicle constantly so I will have to use the child support to pay for anything but the care of our son. He has keyed my car down to the metal three times, and has slashed 15 tires. It's getting old.
I'm tempted to offer him to sign off of his parental rights of our son. The primary reason being that when he does see him for the two hours a month he can manage, my son almost always returns with some kind of health issue that is too detailed to chronicle here. The secondary reason is to free him of his pathetic amount of child support so he can move on and leave me alone. And the third reason is to allow me the freedom to start a life somewhere new with my son without his interference.
I think if I mentioned this to him he would jump at the opportunity. But on the other hand, if we go down this route and he still wants a relationship with our son on some level, I'm not going to impede on that because my son deserves to know he has a father who loves him. I don't want to be the reason my son doesn't know his father - my ex can burn that bridge on his own. So then what's the point?
Thoughts? Opinions?
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