Future candidate for the Bulwer-Lytton prize?
www.bringseanhome.com should answer all your questions. I'll try to summarize: the Hague Conventions requires abducting parents to return their children to their home country or country of residence before the abduction within six weeks of the abduction. A majority of the abductors are mothers so that is the main reason why fathers all over the world are struggling to get their children back. I know of one case where a British Father hasn't seen his daughter in 15 years. The girl is 18 and lives in Brazil. (Surprise, surprise) He is still fighting to see his daughter.
Now back to the topic at hand!
Thanks, genegirl. Although that website wouldn't open for me, my question is a little different. If a woman is pregnant, has the child in SA, or in the USA, or wherever, the child has never really been a resident of Monaco, France, Mucklevania, or wherever. In fact, a child born in the US is automatically a citizen- not sure about other countries.
I know that international custody cases are sticky issues, and sometimes the dad is the bad guy (so to speak), and sometimes the mother is. I can't imagine a baby citizen being ripped from his/her mother's arms and essentially deported to another country.
Mind, I have no reason to believe that this can or will happen, but the thought of losing an infant to his all-powerful father...
If I were a *novelist, I would write a story of royal privilege and international uproar about a situation such of this.
"It was a dark and stormy night when the heavily pregnant Princess Edema of Mucklevania crossed the border into Freedomia, knowing that Prince Elvis and his armed knights were hot on her trail. Surely, she thought, the noble republic of Freedomia would grant her refuge and keep her and her infant safe from the Mucklevanian troops."
*a really bad novelist, of course