Word: wifely
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...would choose a rich, arrogant character like Bipin Shah to represent people who have lost their kids to a former spouse and are desperately searching for them [SOCIETY, May 11]. Shah has the money and apparently the power to hire an army of searchers to find his ex-wife and children. You should not have focused on someone who says he has "always gotten" what he wants. No wonder Shah's ex-wife left. Instead you should have featured those who cannot afford to spend a lot of money to recover their children. JIM MCMILLEN Arlington, Texas...
Your article suggested that the account given by Ellen Dever, Shah's ex-wife, is questionable because there was never a criminal conviction of abuse. But we do know that she succeeded in getting not just one but two protection orders against her husband, that his co-workers described him as "hot tempered and strong willed" and that she gave up a very nice life-style and risked jail to get away from him. Also the claim that women in the underground take children "from fathers who don't get two minutes in their own defense" runs counter to anything...
...have custody battles should relinquish the custody of their children to an outside party until all their personal and financial battles are over. This system could put abusers in the spotlight and keep them away from children. Meanwhile, the only course of action for people like Shah's ex-wife and her children will be to go underground. REBECCA ASHLING Portland...
Until you published your cover story on Bipin Shah, I always thought that TIME was a responsible, reputable periodical. Your report, which was so detrimental to my family, to me, to Ellen Dever [Shah's divorced wife], to would-be protective parents and to abused children everywhere, taught me that you are not reputable or even truthful. My second husband, Johnny, was a good-hearted and loving man. Despite what Steve Lopez wrongfully implied in his article, I have never spoken in disparaging terms of Johnny. He was suicidal when I met him. He took his own life because...
Also Lopez did not listen to the best-evidence tapes of Shah threatening his ex-wife, even though I offered him a bag filled with such tapes. He could have heard the real truth coming from Shah's own mouth, but Lopez listened to only a few minutes of recordings. In addition, Lopez portrayed me as a dysfunctional attention seeker, when in fact I have never sought media attention, though I have cooperated with the media from time to time. I now fear that Ellen Dever and other would-be protective parents, as well as my own family, will suffer...