This is my idea for my story... anything to add?

Question

1. Main character is a 27 year old single mom, trying to loose the pounds from having her baby, goes on dieting and eventually becomes anorexic

2. Child, 5 years old, is abducted by someone… it is an adult and they talk together and stuff for about a month in the playground before he abducts her. The guy turns out to be this child’s real father, who the mother wanted nothing to do with and now he wants rights to the child.

3. The mom kills the guy who abducted her child, and everyone thinks its suicide. This guy’s new girlfriend insists it’s not and goes to great lengths to find out the answers on her own.
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Any other ideas or info- would the baby's father (after not seeing her for 5 years) still have rights to get visiting rights or custody?

Answer 1

Yes, he would still have rights to the child. You would need more background for the parents. Why had the father never paid child support? Did he always know about the kid, or did he learn later and that's why he kidnapped him/her? Was there some sort of abuse? Why would the mother kill him and does the anorexia fit into the story other than it just "being there"? Would the courts decide that she's not "healthy" enough to be raising a child and needs to attend therapy/counceling for her eating disorder?

I think you should do some background on the characters to figure some of this stuff out. You need motive for the murder, you need motive for the kidnapping. You need to explain why the father wasn't in the child's life if he wanted to be a father...etc. If he found out about the child later in life, did the mother fear he would use her eating disorder to prove her unfit and take custody? You have lots of potential stuff to work with here.

Good luck to you, you have a good outline, now you need to start adding meat to the bones. lol

Answer 2

Unless mom went to court in those five years and had his parental rights revoked, he would have rights and--get this-it would technically NOT be kidnapping if no formal court order ever existed saying she was the sole custodial parent. He has just as much right as she without a court order.

You could place it in 1996, make the guy aq Marine Sergeant who just seperated from his wife, make the girl a PFC..make the reletionship a whirlwind romance but she gets pregnant and tries to blackmail the Sergeant who goes on to get kicked out of the Marines the day before Clinton admitted to adultury. He then tries to get custody of the child, but she refuses any DNA testing and the judge orders that you have he is not paternally responsable and therefore has no rights. He goes on the rest of his life wondering if he is the father and dying every night that he knows his Marines are in Iraq qithout him dying, his best friend dies over there, and he through sherr will overcomes redtape to get in the Army and will deploy to Iraq 2/11.

if you did, it owuld be my autobiography.

Answer 3

Yes, the baby's father would still have visiting rights and custody unless he signed off on them.

However, I think you need a motive for the mother to kill the father of her child. The dad is actually interested in being part of his kids life, which would be positive for the child, so why on earth would this crazy woman murder him? He needs to be abusive or dangerous in some kind of way for the readers to be interested, and the mother to appear to have some kind of thought process or reasoning. Either that, or she is mentally ill, and you would have to describe what she thinks is happening in her delusional mind. And maybe contrast that with what her sane child is experiencing.

Answer 4

Dont like the annorexic part,, Needs motivation for killing the sperm donor... father would not have rights to child untill he went to court to obtain them. what happens to son when mum goes to jail???