Situations should never turn out like this. Your children should never have to endure something like this, but it's not illegal to do something like this. Not only does this scare and hurt children, but it destroys the bond you once had with them. The legal scene is always the worst. The constant arguing, I just wanted to get up and run to my dad and not let him go, but I couldn't because of my mom's recently found boy toy that was holding me back. After the court settled, my father ended up in a psychiatric hospital for 3 months after losing his children. Then I realized it was all true, I broke down and cried. When I was 9, my mother took me to Boston, my stomach was in knots being so far from home, and we stayed there for a total of 11 months. My mother eventually returned to Belleville with a court order from my father granting her visitation. My dad could have had my mom arrested for crossing four borders with me, because I'm her blood, but he just got a court order saying she had to come.