Unwed Fathers Fight

Jeremiah Jones, an average young man from Arizona, discovered that his former fiancee was pregnant just three weeks before the baby was due. He discovered this when an adoption-agency lawyer called him and asked him if he would consent to have his baby adopted. Jones refused, but his choice turned out to be invalid. He and his ex-fiancee conceived a child while attending school in Florida. By the rules of the state of Florida, an unmarried man must file with the state before he can make decisions on adoption. Since Jones was unaware of the pregnancy, he of course could not register with the state, and therefore was not able to stop the baby from being adopted. Many people are fighting against this action, which has happened on more than one occasion. People are fighting this because many men have never heard of being able to register. Also, many men would never even think twice about registering after having sexual relations. This debate will continue to be fought in the United States of America, to decide what is right in the situation of unmarried men and adoption.
This problem has occurred in the past, in the early 1990's. There was a two-year fight over "Baby Jessica" and the four-year battle over "Baby Richard", which highlighted the wrenching dramas of birth parents winning custody of babies placed with adoptive parents years earlier. The spectacle of those children being taken from the arms of the only parents they had known raised an outcry about the need for swift, permanent placement.
The first registry for unwed fathers was formed during the 1980s, in New York, since then, many others have been created, but they must be publicized by the government to help these fathers.