Tag: Mother

Timeline shows final hours of second Guatemalan child to die in US custody Read more Early in December, Felipe Gómez Alonzo and his father, Agustín Gómez Peréz, left the family’s modest home in the mountains of Guatemala with dreams of starting a new life in the US. US authorities are investigating the deaths of Felipe and seven-year-old Jakelin Caal, but the circumstances which drove both families to risk sending their children on the long journey north are clear: the absolute poverty besetting swathes of rural Guatemala. “Felipe was happy to leave with his father,” said Alonzo in Chuj, an indigenous Mayan language. She said that both parents had agreed to let Felipe join his father, an agricultural worker, on his trip north. Gómez Pérez hoped to find work to pay off his debts and send money to the family. “We talked as soon as they reached the border,” she said, adding that Gómez Pérez called again the next day when the pair were already in border patrol custody. But for many in rural Guatemala migration is seen as the only hope for a better life. “People leave our village, find work in the US and send money to help their relatives,” said Pérez, who estimated about 200 people from the tiny village live in the United States. Before leaving Yalambojoch, Felipe shared a bedroom with both his parents and three siblings. Now, despite her son’s death, Alonzo still hopes he can remain in the US.

Copyright 2018 CNN (CNN) - A Louisiana mom, running for office for the first time, thought about taking her kindergartner and her 1½-year-old along with her on the campaign trail. So, Morgan Lamandre asked the board that oversees election rules if she could use political donations to cover child care expenses that wouldn't exist if she weren't running. Candidates in other states, particularly mothers, have made similar bids this year and won. "Nobody forces you to run for public office. 'An important bridge to cross' Already, Lamandre's case has spurred a push among Louisiana lawmakers to write an allowance for child care expenses into state election law. The episode follows similar requests in at least six states from mothers hoping to use political contributions to hire sitters while they worked to get elected. "This is an important bridge to cross because women don't feel like the opportunity is there for them because they have a family, they have responsibilities. "When you still have people writing the rules that are of a different time, it's very hard for a 30-something mom who's choosing to seek public office while working full time and raising kids to do that," Agnew said. Brasted noted that the Louisiana Ethics Board's own staff attorney reminded members weighing Lamandre's appeal that the same panel in 2000 allowed a male lawmaker to pay for "childcare (babysitting) expenses ... from campaign funds since they are related to your campaign." "There's already certain opportunities for a certain class of people to be able to run for office that others wouldn't, so this gives the opportunity for two working parents to be able to run for office that wouldn't otherwise have the extra funds to be able to run for office," Lamandre told the Ethics Board.

Jelsin, who is six, squeezed his mother’s hands as she offered a hopeful message to parents still kept from their children. Will separated families be reunited? More than 2,300 children were separated from their parents under the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" immigration policy. But attorneys with the Texas Civil Rights Project, which represents hundreds of separated families, said it has “grave concerns about the government’s ability to track parents and children who have been caught up in this crisis”. With no clear process in place, it’s possible some families will never be reunited. Padilla is now the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against the federal government, an action she hopes will help hundreds of other asylum-seeking parents separated from their children. But after she was released on 6 July, she was still forced to wait more than week before her son was returned, to live with her at a temporary home in a Seattle suburb. As of Friday, the federal Department of Heath and Human Services Department (DHHS) had identified 2,551 children aged between five and 17 who were placed in its custody while the family separation policy was in effect. Fifty-seven had been reunited with their families; the department said safety concerns meant the other 46 remained apart. Padilla and her son were detained on 18 May, shortly after crossing the border with a group of migrants they had joined in Guatemala.

For me Williams, as everyone would expect, isn’t a job and I always said it’s like another child to me. “Mum loved butterflies, and there were loads in the garden at home,” Claire reveals. The girl thing just doesn’t come into it.” Recently, however, when the subject of gender equality was raised, she leapt on to her soapbox with a gusto of which Ginny would have been proud. “Gender equality is obviously an issue that Williams have been looking at and addressing for a number of years now. She was formidable and brave and what she went through in her life at Williams was amazing.” Few people enjoy two such strong role models as parents, but Claire is reticent when it comes to suggesting what she inherited from each. I have a lot of Dad, but also lot of Mum. “Obviously, it’s not been the start that we’d hoped for, and maybe we’d come into it with a bit of blind positivity, almost, believing we could turn things around in a greater way than we actually had,” Claire admits. “We also made a lot of changes and brought new people into the team last year and maybe our expectations of what they could deliver in the timescale was exaggerated. “I feel a real responsibility and sense of duty to give something back to this team. “And I believe that we have got the best people in place to deliver it, and we’ll just need time in order to do that.