#Just uprooting kids

[coochiequeens]

A couple created a child just to remove her from the birth mother and move to another country and now that she spent her first two years in Germany the "father" wants to remove her from what she knows ..... again.

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat high court has dismissed a habeas corpus petition by a man seeking custody of his two-year-old daughter who was born through surrogacy in Ahmedabad and currently lives with her mother in Germany.

The judges refused to entertain the petition with the observation that it cannot exercise its jurisdiction merely because the child was born through surrogacy in Ahmedabad, particularly when the parents live outside the HC’s territorial jurisdiction.

The petitioner had moved to Germany in 2017 and his wife joined him there a year later. Both are from Pune. As the couple did not have a child, they came to Ahmedabad to have a child through surrogacy.

The child was born in 2022 and the couple returned to Germany with her.

In 2023, the husband returned to India while his wife remained in Germany with their daughter. He filed a habeas corpus petition in the Gujarat HC seeking custody of his daughter.

The bench of Justice A Y Kogje and Justice S J Dave inquired with the petitioner’s lawyer whether the petitioner lives in Maharashtra and if his wife and daughter are in Germany.

“When these people have never lived in Gujarat, the case is beyond the HC’s territorial jurisdiction,” the bench said. To this, the petitioner’s lawyer submitted that the Gujarat HC was approached because the child was born in Ahmedabad through surrogacy.

The bench did not accept this contention and opined that merely because the surrogacy occurred in Ahmedabad, it does confer jurisdiction to the Gujarat HC.

[yashley]

“I’m really sorry.” “So am I.”

[mockingmolly]

Man, the contrast of M9 getting Molly back in the form of Kingsley, versus BH potentially getting Laudna back in the form of Matilda? With tm9, Kingsley was quite possibly the kindest way they could have gotten any semblance of their friend back. It had been a year without him and none of his friends existed as he would have remembered them anymore, and he would have been faced with the struggle of trying to find his place in their group again, coming back a contrast to the person they built him up as while he was dead.

And furthermore, he came back into a time of newly-won peace, after they had managed to defeat the threats that had been building up since his death. They got him back specifically because of their success, and gave this fresh-memoried person a world ahead of them to reclaim themself the way molly never truly had. But Matilda? If the soul they pluck from the afterlife is the girl who died and stayed dead on the tree, instead of the one who spent 30 years living in the aftermath of it, they’re essentially dragging up a girl who has long-since been at rest, to thrust her into the deep end of the biggest threat any of them have ever faced, and inevitably expecting her to be able to swim and keep up. A girl who died without having any grasp of her powers, nor life experience beyond what she knew at the outskirts of the briarwood’s rule. Plucked up and dropped into a group of strangers who are dealing with some pretty intense grief, and the weight of the world on their shoulders. 

Laudna has, of course, gone through a lot. There’s no reality in which she isn’t deeply fucked up by what happened before, upon, and after this second death. Reckoning with the sudden loss of Delilah over her shoulders and what it means for her going forward is going to be a journey, but she’ll have her family by her side through all of it. She’ll have the knowledge she’s gained through 30 years of unliving and a grasp on what’s at stake in the world she’s coming back to. The world she seems to want to come back to, as shaken as she is.

If the soul they reach out to is Matilda, there’s no guarantee that anything they could say will appeal to a stranger that’s been dead and at rest for decades. And even if they do, i can’t help but feel like uprooting and forcing a soul they don’t know into a life/burden they have no way out of is also one of the crueler outcomes in all of this.

[cheekblush]

i wish i could just turn off my thoughts like a light switch

[isfjmel-phleg]

In a lead-in to the 2003 series whose existence I prefer to ignore, we get a glimpse of Bart now living with the Garricks, which is where the end of Impulse left him after Max's disappearance.

He has a new bedroom in a new city, but it looks oddly familiar.

(Teen Titans and Outsiders Secret Files and Origins #1)

Bart's bedroom at the Garricks' house is set up almost exactly like his room at Helen's house in Manchester, including the loft bed. Even details like the baseball beanbag chair and the small trampoline are included (not pictured below, but you can see them in other panels in my post about the YJ boys' rooms)

(Impulse #76)

The Doylist explanation is that the artist for the later story was just recycling old material to avoid having to completely design a new setting, or else wasn't bothering to recognize that the character is living in a different house now. But in-universe? It looks like the Garricks are going out of their way to make Bart feel as at home as possible with them by keeping his room very similar to what he's used to--or perhaps Bart himself, still dealing with the loss of the family and home he had in Manchester, has chosen to try to recreate his old room. One less change in his life. One thing he can control.

[yuesya]

Haha. Wouldn't it be funny if Shiki was send on the mission that in cannon was for Geto? The one with the twin, Mimiko and Nanako. Because if that happened Shiki might feel responsible enough to take them in. And that would mean both Shiki and Satoru took in kids of the person they killed.

Maybe in an AU haha. I agree with you that it would make for a fun parallel, but I also think that this particular mission was a very pivotal point for Geto when he finally gave up on the way Jujutsu High was doing things. Then again, even if he didn't get this particular mission, I'm sure there would've been some other mission that eventually 'pulled the trigger,' so to speak.

[mrs-kelly]

Man I wanna think a lot more about what Charlie and my living situation would be like, like I imagine we’d be living in his apartment together for awhile. A good while. But then I’d want to go to school to get a better job so we can have a comfier living situation. Especially if we start talking about wanting to have kids in the future. Cuz no way am I raising children in that dingy one-room apartment shfjfl

[aquarterasian]

miyuki: *has friends*

ayumi: I think everyone should die

[akatusk]

vyrthur voice "fuck them kids"

[fortunatelyfresco]

Arguably Al was better to Woody than Andy was! He had him all repaired and fixed up, took care to keep him in great condition. I mean yeah of course there's the idea that toys deserve to be played with and not just kept in a static state of impetuity, which I don't necessarily disagree with as an Idea vs the idea that adults shouldn't play (bad! wrong! adults deserve play!) but yeah al's crime was theft lmao

right hfdjsk like other than the literal theft, there's really no Moral component to how either Andy or Al treats the toys from what i remember, other than what the movie sort of reverse-engineers from the standpoint of "this makes the toys sad"

the toys are sad that Andy doesn't play with them as much anymore and lets them fall into disrepair, therefore it's bad that Andy is losing interest in the toys. except Andy, like everyone else, does not know the toys are alive. he is just growing up and developing new priorities and interests.

Al's toys live in isolation with very little to do, therefore it's bad that Al collects toys. except... again... he does not know that. he is just vibing. and stealing from children. that part is bad.

these movies were and are fascinating to me, as someone who had a lot of stuffed animals as a kid and also debilitating mental illness that made me think they were alive lmao.

i still have some of the stuffed animals now. my oldest one is in terrible shape and i'm planning to re-stuff him soon. by toy story standards i could be considered villainous for letting him end up like this, or equally as villainous if i had kept him under glass for 20 years. my aunt has a threadbare stuffed walrus who sits on a "retirement chair" in her bedroom. maybe that's the happy medium.

my great grandma elly collected dolls. her home was lined with them, beautiful dolls in good condition, with beautiful dresses. most of them were the size of the average baby doll from what i remember, but she also collected miniatures. she built her own dollhouse. she wired it to have working lights.

the running not-quite-joke in my family is that any time us kids would play with the dollhouse, she would anxiously/sternly ask "did you put it all back?"

the dollhouse is in my father's basement. i ended up taking a lot of the actual miniatures—because i am tragically into miniatures now, about a decade too late to discuss it with her—but i couldn't take the dollhouse. too big to transport.

the miniatures were all just thrown around inside of it. tables, chairs, bookcases, books, lamps, dishes and cutlery, a bathtub. everything. before i took most of it, i spent a couple days arranging everything nicely, the way it was supposed to look or as close as possible, and took pictures. I Put It All Back.

[sorikaied]

so last night was my mom’s 50th birthday. so i took her out to dinner and we were joined by my two aunts and grandmother, since they’re the closest truly in the area to join us. and overall, it was a nice dinner. the rest of the evening was soured thanks to my mom but i guess i can’t really expect any differently now can i?

[honorhearted]

↺: (their kids meaning like as uncles obviously lol)

H.oliday meme |  ↺: Our muses doing something holiday-themed with their kid(s). / @sideburnsandmelancholy

The early morning sun was dazzling, blinding against the swath of snow blanketing the estate, and Ben’s face was starting to ache from smiling so much. Prior to the w.ar, it had been such an underused muscle, but now it was almost as if he couldn’t stop the warmth and jubilation from swimming through his very bloodstream.

“Mind your uncle!” he called over to his youngest child, grinning once the boy turned his wide, “I didn’t do anything!” eyes to him. Motioning toward the sled, he added, “Wait your turn. Uncle Heathcliff will lift you up once it’s safe to do so.”

Already, each of their children had raced down the hill on the sled -- it had once belonged to Ben’s great-grandfather -- and were now clambering for their second turn.

Approaching the squabbling brood, Ben lifted his youngest and placed him at the front of the sled, encouraging the boy to tuck in his arms and legs. “When we’re done, I believe the womenfolk are preparing pies and cider -- but only to those who mind their elders.” He looked towards Heathcliff with a smirk. “That includes you too, you know.”

[cozzyplace]

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[macabrity]

these past like. 10 months have just been Descending Into More Agonies like I struggled having to recover from surgery, then I got back to work and was doing better but there was still the matter of finding new housing before the lease ran out in two months, and THEN we found housing (last choice out of all the possibilities) THEN we had to make a cross state move with our beloved pets and most treasured possessions and the house is fucking moldy. and wet. and cold. and the sewer backed up AND the toilet kept running multiple times resulting in wasting over 300 gallons of water on multiple separate events… like. come on. it’s laughably fucked at this point

[spraklecat]

“I’m calling out this person for making tickle art of real celebrities”

And you play armchair psychologist and insist they have autism when there’s like 3 different cultural factors complicating that and zero sign of that person having sensory issues.

[always-a-slut-4-ghouls]

I still have a lot to look into on this but I heard that some universities have been or are planning to ban “study drugs” and I’m so pissed. Sure, I’m not sure if I’ll ever really get the chance to go to one, but even if I don’t, that’s still basically just banning a majority of medicated people with adhd, and possibly other issues. That is medical discrimination and I’m so pissed about it. This is what happens when the medications that many of us need to be functional are stigmatized and “abused” I have trouble remembering to do my own dishes without meds, and they expect people like me to go through college like that? Or, more likely in my opinion, do they just not want those “disabled drug addicts” in their fancy schools?