PQN: We are on a long-distance plan, so I don't think I have it.
aardvarc: I'd travel the 600mi in a heartbeat if I knew I couldn't be arrested, or that the dad wouldn't retaliate in some way. I'm nervous that if I did that he'd use it somehow to get full custody. Could he? He's abandoned her there, thousands of miles away from where he is now.
{{climbing up on soapbox}}
And it seems to me that just because other kids are in worse situations than my child (drugs, abuse, etc.) doesn't give the courts the right to ignore the predicament that my child is in. Emotionally she has been abused and abandoned by her dad.
{{climbing down from soapbox}}
sigh. I am just very worried by all the calls from my sobbing child... and feeling helpless to do anything for her.

