Honest question: just how often do parents return their adopted children? This one can't be the only case.
A SENIOR European diplomat in Hong Kong has promoted outrage by giving up the seven-year-old Korean girl he adopted with his wife as a baby.
And it's not:
I didn't like my adopted daughter so I gave her back
The moment Julie Jarman set eyes on Zahina she was smitten. The seven-year-old girl from Tanzania was desperate for a loving home and Julie felt sure that she and her 11-year-old daughter could provide it.
Wonder if she kept the receipt.
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Adoption agencies often mislead adoptive parents about the medical or mental health background of the biological parents, or what is known about the child. This is against the law.
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It wasn't a rhetorical question, but I answered it myself, anyway.
Posted by: Tony T. | 10 December 2007 at 15:14
But how often do parents adopt their returned children?
Posted by: nick | 10 December 2007 at 21:16
About as often as children divorce their parents.
Posted by: Tony T. | 10 December 2007 at 21:48
Newsweek has an article up where I believe they mentioned in 2006 in the US, there were 81 children returned.
Posted by: Theresa | 12 December 2007 at 23:39