Paternal Abandonment

PHOTOs are supposedly half-brothers of B Obama

by Pat Darnell

This will not be as heavy as the title implies. As introduction to paternal abandonment, this article about Barry Obama shows a good example. It happens in two prevalent ways in the US: death of a father, or not stipulated abandonment. In Barack Obama's case the paternal abandonment was not stipulated and occurred when Barack was two.

My own Dad was abandoned when he was 3 years old by death of his father. My grandfather died early from a disease that today could easily be prevented. Parental Abandonment can also happen if either or both parents are emotionally disassociated with their children during childhood developmental years. These are anvils around the neck for clinical psychologists to hammer on.

The major problem with paternal abandonment in the US is that the child does not have the "usual" surname that goes with nuclear family monogamy. Also, the aftermath may leave a long stretch of uncertainty in who is who. In Barack's case it has become stranger ever y time someone digs up a nother relative of the Obama clan. Three days before what has become an international election, yet another Obama branch is found, but this one is a refugee from Africa.

As MooPig, I am going to hazard a whimsical suggestion: I think Jeremiah Wright and his Church should with all haste provide asylum for the new found Aunt Onyango, who is living illegally in US... what do you think?

"The Associated Press found that Obama's aunt had been instructed to leave the country four years ago by an immigration judge who rejected her request for asylum from her native Kenya. The woman, Zeituni Onyango (zay-TUHN on-YANG-oh), is living in public housing in Boston and is the half-sister of Obama's late father. [SOURCE]

"A statement given to the AP by Obama's campaign said, "Senator Obama has no knowledge of her status but obviously believes that any and all appropriate laws be followed."

"Obama says he didn't know aunt's illegal status, 12th Ld-Writethru, By NEDRA PICKLER | AP foreign | Saturday November 1 2008

"Onyango, 56, is part of Obama's large paternal family, with many related to him by blood whom he never knew growing up.

"Obama's father, Barack Obama Sr., left the future presidential nominee when the boy was 2, and they reunited only once for a monthlong visit when Obama was 10. The elder Obama lived most of his life in Kenya, where he fathered six other sons and a daughter with three other wives. He died in a car crash in 1982." (Pickler, Nedra; 11.01.2008. retrieved entirely from HERE today for erview by PD).