It isn’t very often that I comment on things in the news. Alot of times stuff gets my blood pressure up and what is the point. This time I feel compelled.
I’m sure that many of you that follow adoption related issues have heard about the little guy from UT who had to be returned to Minnesota this week in a disrupted placement.
Of course this is being bandied about as a completed adoption that has been overturned. It is nothing of the sort. The mother revoked her termination of parental rights immediately after leaving the hospital and the tribe got involved several days later. The family knew what was coming. They had NO legal grounds to keep this child. They didn’t follow the ICWA, or the agency didn’t, whichever, it wasn’t followed. I don’t care if you agree with a law or not, even if you don’t agree, it doesn’t mean you get to break it.
Now of course women that place their children are being maligned as selfish, whoring, drug addicts who don’t care about their kids at all. I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again, I don’t need to sell myself nor do I use drugs, funny how I like having a legitimate job.
The family should have turned him over immediately when they knew she was going to revoke. Would it have been hard? Yes, my heart does hurt to them, I know what it is like to lose a child. Sometimes though, grace goes a much further way than righteous indignation.
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