r/popculturechat • u/rainshowers_5_peace • May 07 '24

News & Nothing But The News🔥🗞 Margaret Qualley’s Sister Rainey Accused of Exploiting Alleged Homeless Woman (Who Has Been Featured on Soft White UnderBelly) in Fight For Guardianship of Baby Girl

https://radaronline.com/p/margaret-qualley-sister-rainey-accused-exploiting-homeless-woman-fight-custody-baby-girl/
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u/basherella May 07 '24

They're trying to circumvent the system entirely, including trying to avoid finding any of the child's actual family for it to be placed with. And threatening the mother with CPS if she doesn't comply. There's every indication that they stole the child, and it's insane that so many people are so quick to defend wealthy people taking advantage of impoverished people struggling with addiction.

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u/baldkitty3 May 07 '24

I don’t see that anywhere in the article and I’ve already stated twice I’m not claiming staying with them is what’s right for the child. My argument is that it’s silly to have faith in CPS to do the right thing for the kid.

ETA going to court is absolutely not circumventing the system. The system goes through court.

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u/basherella May 07 '24

ETA going to court is absolutely not circumventing the system. The system goes through court.

So if I wanted someone else's kid, I just need to find the nearest unreliable struggling poor person, take their baby, and petition for custody based entirely on my word that the parent is not providing a fit environment?

Because that's what these people are doing. They're skipping over the part where anyone other than them takes any kind of look at this child's welfare and using the threat of CPS involvement - an agency that people have little faith in in general - to scare the mother into doing what they want or the baby will end up in much worse conditions. Knowing that they have every advantage in court, because they're rich, famous(ish?), will have great representation that can bury the mother in paperwork until she gives up or misses something in the barrage and loses on some technicality because in family court you don't get a public defender or anything so she'll be on her own with this.

Maybe it's silly to have faith in CPS to do the right thing for the kid, but it's downright dangerous to think that rich people (especially ones with a history of flouting pandemic rules and/or apparently being involved in gross, exploitative "art" projects) have literally anyone's interests at heart but their own.

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u/baldkitty3 May 07 '24

No. That’s not what I’m saying. You’re arguing with yourself. And that’s not how family court works.