Mom loses custody battle over breast cancer
May 10th, 2011 - 11:52 pm ICT by IANSWashington, May 10 (IANS) A US woman has lost a bitter child custody battle for having breast cancer, according to a media report Tuesday.
A North Carolina judge denied Alaina Giordano primary custody of her two children in part because “the course of her disease is unknown” and “children who have a parent with cancer need more contact with the non-ill parent”, the ABC news reported.
Giordano’s unemployment was also cited as a factor in the April 25 District Court ruling that her two children must move from their home in Durham, N.C., to live primarily with their father, Kane Snyder in Chicago as of June 17, the report said.
“It makes no sense to take them away from me because you don’t know how long I’m going to live,” the broadcaster quoted Giordano sa saying. “Everybody dies and none of us knows when. Some of us have a diagnosis of cancer, or diabetes, or asthma. This is a particularly dangerous ruling to base a custody case on a diagnosis.”
Giordano has stage 4 breast cancer. Though it has metastasized to her bones, she receives monthly treatment and her medical records list her cancer as stable and not progressing.
Giordano hopes to appeal the court’s ruling so that she and her children can stay in North Carolina.
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