Unforgivable

I saw this story on "Inside Edition" and was absolutely disgusted. A mom in my hometown of Durham, NC has been forced by a judge to give up her two kids to their estranged father all because she has breast cancer. The mother, Alaina Giordano, has stage four breast cancer and was told that she was a "capable, caring, and loving mother" but the court has ruled her children must live with their father in Chicago.

The kids now will have to leave probably the only home they've known and go to Illinois where they'll have to make new friends and go to new schools. This is not easy on any person especially kids. What really disgusted me is the court said, "Children who have a parent with cancer need more contact with the non-ill parent."

Give me a freaking break! Although the mother has this horrible disease, it doesn't mean she is incapable of taking care of her children. It's not fair for the court to send down such a judgement on this woman who is already going through a lot as it is. Her children are the last thing she has to comfort her and, thanks to the Durham Family Court, she will not have them for too much longer.

My message to the judge and the court: you should be ashamed of yourselves for making such an apalling decision! Always remember this and the pain that it has brought on this family.