Todos los capítulos de Mistaken Alliances : Capítulo 141

The year the Mensah decision was handed down was also the year Rosa turned thirteen.She had been writing for three years. The family court access argument was taking shape in her notebooks the way all the access arguments had taken shape before it, from the ground up, from the specific problem outward.At her birthday dinner in the Georgetown apartment she surprised everyone.After the cake and the gifts and the particular energy of a family celebrating someone they loved, she stood up.She was thirteen years old. She stood the way Nora had stood at her first Senate testimony. Completely prepared and not performing preparedness.She said, "I want to tell everyone about my argument."The table looked at her.She said, "Children in family court. The state removes a child from their home. The proceeding determines where the child lives next. The child is the center of the proceeding. The child has no lawyer representing specifically their interests in most jurisdictions."She paused."T