What a sad story...

Posted: Sun, Mar 27 2011, 12:36 pm Post subject: re: What a sad story...

I had read he remarried...maybe I misunderstood...perhaps he was engaged at the time?
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Posted: Sun, Mar 27 2011, 12:39 pm Post subject:

As long as Abby and her children get to spend time together.

Abby has nieces and nephews that visit her. I have not heard that they are scared by the experience.
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There's not mentioned in the recent article, but I just have an impression from something I read in the past. Is it possible the grandparents are not frum, in which case, one can readily understand that the father is concerned about their influence? And certainly right to be concerned about a four-week, unsupervised visit?

A judge does (sometimes) take into account that varying religious philosophies will confuse a child...

Posted: Sun, Mar 27 2011, 12:52 pm Post subject:

Her parents are very supportive of her frumkiet. She has a sister who is a chabad rebbetzein with 5 kids and a brother who is also frum. That is not the issue.

Posted: Sun, Mar 27 2011, 12:52 pm Post subject: re: What a sad story...

When I first read this story, I was very outraged by a father denying his disabled wife the chance to see her children, no matter how conscious or not that she is. After reading a few more of these articles, I came to the conclusion that while I think he is still wrong to deny her existence, there's more to his side than appears in the press. I wonder if her parents are terribly controlling and if they don't subconsciously blame him for this tragedy. Or perhaps he was scared that he would lose the chance to raise them by virtue of being a single father and them being married grandparents? Perhaps he didn't want their intrusion into what must have been an absolute nightmare - first-time fatherhood to triplets, alone, not widowed and not married.

Everyone grieves differently. Perhaps denying Abby's existence was his way of being able to move out of what must have been his own considerable personal pain. I think the ruling is very fair. Abby sees her children in whatever capacity she can over the Skype. She sees them once a year in the summer. There's a corner of pictures etc of her, and the kids will learn that they have a loving mother who really wanted them but is too ill to care for them.

All I'm saying is even though I still think he's wrong to have cut her and her parents out of their lives so totally, cut this man some slack and don't judge him. His life must have been absolute Gehinnom.

And yes, poor Abby definitely got the thin end of the wedge here. All she wanted was to have children - and she got a ruined life, hovering between life and nothingness. Poor soul. Who knows what she would have made of this story if she were aware of it? But sadly I don't know how it could be any different.

Posted: Sun, Mar 27 2011, 2:10 pm Post subject: Re: re: What a sad story...

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Reading the verdict it is quite obvious that Dan Dorn is not the devil. I always assumed there was more to the story but now I am sure. This is a sad story all around and obviously he had an issue more with the children being with the mil and not with his ex wife, as long as he was there to help them with any difficult questions or emotions they have.
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