“Parental Alienation is an act of child abuse, and an attempt by one parent to sever [a] child’s ties with the other parent.”
—Steven Foxworth, DaddysHeart.com
Steven Foxworth had a beautiful daughter, a beautiful daughter whose life he had been excluded from for 12 years, and a beautiful daughter he will never see again.
Nor will anyone else.
Asia Danielle was killed in a car accident in 2011 at the age of 16, and Mr. Foxworth didn’t learn of his daughter’s death until eight months later. Even if he had chanced to see the headline of his daughter’s obituary, published in another state, he may not have recognized it as hers, because his daughter’s name had been changed, which is why his attempts to find her over the years proved fruitless.

Asia Danielle Foxworth a.k.a. Danielle Westbrook was tragically killed in a car accident in 2011. Her father, Steven Foxworth, was informed of his daughter’s death by a mailed notice asserting that he had no entitlement to her estate. Mr. Foxworth was unlawfully denied any contact with his daughter for 12 years and wasn’t told her name had been changed.
For most of her brief life, the girl Mr. Foxworth had known as Asia Danielle Foxworth was Danielle (“Danni”) Westbrook.
After Mr. Foxworth separated from Asia’s mother in 1998, he was “threatened to stay away from his own child’s daycare that he enrolled her in.” Mr. Foxworth petitioned the court and succeeded in having his parental rights acknowledged “concerning phone/standard physical visitation, and full access to all pertinent info, i.e., school and medical records,” but Asia’s mother, Rusty Dawn Skipper, was granted full custody, and she moved to North Carolina and, according to Mr. Foxworth, declined to observe the court’s order that Asia be brought to Georgia for visitation with her father. She furthermore provided Mr. Foxworth no contact information and in 2000 changed Asia’s surname to Westbrook, that of her then fiancé, without Mr. Foxworth’s consent.
Though he paid child support, never knowing if it reached its intended recipient, the only communication Mr. Foxworth received from Asia’s mother concerning his daughter in 12 years was a legal notice, sent after his daughter’s death, apprising him that he had no claim to her estate.
That’s how the mother of his daughter informed Mr. Foxworth that his daughter was gone.
Mr. Foxworth reports that even seven months after Asia was killed, her maternal grandparents represented her as living when he contacted them, which he had faithfully done for years, even annually singing “Happy Birthday” on their answering machine, hoping the song would be shared with his estranged daughter.
Mr. Foxworth’s is a poignant story of a father’s alienation from his child that includes collusion by family members and the state. A more detailed version can be found on Mr. Foxworth’s tribute to Asia, DaddysHeart.com, under the tab “Asia’s Law.”
“Asia’s Law” is Mr. Foxworth’s proposal to stop parental alienation.
“Asia’s Law” will stand on the principle that no one parent has the right to infringe upon the legal parental rights of another parent.
“Asia’s Law” will promote the enforcement of standard child visitation for noncustodial parents as rigorously as child support is enforced for custodial parents. There will be a governmental arm that works with Child Support Enforcement Services that regards court-ordered visitation as seriously as child support arrearage. In the current construct, the message is sent that the value of money to take care of a child is more important than the value of a child’s having the love, affection, and guidance of his or her other parent.
“Asia’s Law” will also make it illegal for a custodial parent to change the name of a minor without the other natural parent’s consent—in any state.
Additionally, “Asia’s Law” will mandate that a non-custodial parent give blood (except in cases of religious exemption) so that if a child needs blood for any medical reason, it will be there for him or her.
“Asia’s Law” will save lives—emotionally and physically. We need this law passed to protect families.
My daughter, Asia Danielle Foxworth (“Danielle Westbrook”), is no longer here, but if there had been a law like this in place while she was living, she could not have been kept from me—under the radar for 12 years. Further, her “name change”—save legal adoption (which I would not have consented to)—could never have been permitted. Lastly, if my daughter would have survived her fatal car accident and needed blood, she could have had mine, providing it was stored for her. There are also children who have natural ailments; blood donation from a natural parent could save their lives, even if that other parent lived in another state. Too many are suffering. We need “Asia’s Law” passed. I have my story, but there are countless others. Parental Alienation is an age-old phenomenon and stereotypes typecast parents, especially fathers. The bottom line is no child should be kept from a loving parent—illegally and/or out of spite. If through “Asia’s Law” families are reunited, the rights of noncustodial parents respected, and lives saved, my daughter’s transition will not have been in vain.
~Steven Foxworth
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*Compare Mr. Foxworth’s story of parental alienation to that of estranged father Neil Shelton: “The ‘Nightmare’ Neil Shelton Has Lived for Three Years and Is Still Living: A Father’s Story of Restraining Order Abuse.” Attention to Steven Foxworth’s story was brought to the author of this blog by the Georgia-based Kayden Jayce Foundation, a nonprofit devoted to remedying parental alienation and legal abuse.
James Kelly
September 22, 2021
Odd how he leaves out the part about being 24 years old and knocking up Asia’s mom when she was 16. Guess being a child predator doesn’t fit well into the whole “poor alienated father” routine. *shrug*
Check their relative ages. You’ll see.
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Todd Greene
September 30, 2021
I don’t know the circumstances of the the child’s conception, but I don’t think there’s anything odd about a father’s grief for a lost child.
When I actively corresponded with people whose lives had been determined by some dozy judge or other clock-watching between three-martini lunches and tee times, I spoke to many people who identified themselves as black, and almost all of them had been in interracial marriages. In every instance, without exception, custody of children was granted to the white member of the couple, in most instances the mom, but not always.
One case I recall was about a young black woman, maybe a teen, who had been “knocked up” by a white kid who showed no subsequent interest in their child. When the girl pleaded with him to involve himself, he petitioned a restraining order against her with the help of his parents, who probably hired an attorney, and the boy and his parents took custody of the girl’s child.
Judges are grateful to have easy details like the one you’ve emphasized. It saves them from having to make an investment.
In England, which notably recognized black people as fully invested human beings before we did, 16 is the age of consent.
So is it, too, in Canada.
See also Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, West Virginia, etc.
There are two people who know how Asia was conceived, and neither you nor I, nor any judge in the world, is one of them.
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Michal Calvani
December 26, 2022
While the age of 16 or 17 poses a legal matter since the late 1990s, my question is to the writer of this blog.
Have you looked into the circumstances possibly why Mr Foxworth uses only one court form that only shows he tried to step out of line with a restraining order in place regarding Asia’s preschool. My next question is regarding the blood, I’m not sure he is even aware of that there is and has been for quite some time what is called a blood bank. And lastly, I fully believe knowing Mr Foxworth wasn’t able to legally afford representation otherwise he would have had visitation.
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Anonymous
June 6, 2016
please post and share link to stop Parent Alienation.
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May 21, 2015
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oci36
May 20, 2015
Reblogged this on Stand Up For Zoraya.
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May 21, 2015
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bettykrachey
May 5, 2015
Reblogged this on Falsely Accused.
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kaydenjaycefoundation
May 5, 2015
Well, written as always Todd!!! Thank you for writing about this story!!!
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May 21, 2015
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