Couple loses 8-year-old to Chinese birth parents

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | July 20, 2007

[USA Girl]

I would have thought all Freepers would mistrust mainstream media sources.

Some here quote USA Today and yell, “Lookie loo! I got the truth right here!”

LOL Amusing.

Maybe we’ll get someone quoting CBS next.

[LucyJo]

"I’m so sick of judges like this that I could gag."

Ditto.

Hello, voters. Your vote has consequences.

[Yaelle]

Love your epidural from the judges story! G-d bless you for keeping the kids together and in a loving family!

[Yaelle]

Sorry; I don’t remember Baby Richard’s story so well or even if that was the story from the past of which I was thinking. You are right; in this case the foster parents did cause the problems but the child is the innocent victim and our legal system should consider what’s best for her.

[ga medic]

Unfortunately, the legal system has never considered what is best for foster children. There are some horrendous group homes, where many foster children are placed. Drugs, rape, theft, and horrible abuse are common in these homes. For many foster children that has already been through a very likely horrible traumatic experience, these homes truly ruin what is left of their lives.

There are some truly wonderful foster parents out there, that do a fantastic job of caring for and loving foster children even though they are only temporary parents. The love the children like their own, and must let them go, when social services makes other placement arrangements. They are true heros in my book, putting themselves through emotional agony, for the good of a child. Unfortunately, there are not nearly enough good foster homes.

The Bakers, do not fall into this category. Although I am sure they loved Anna, they were trying to fulfill their own need for a child, rather than do what was best for Anna. I am very sad for the trauma this little girl will go through, and I will pray that she will experience God’s love and get through this very difficult time.

[ga medic]

I am sorry to disappoint you, but World Net Daily isn’t exactly a reliable source. They are no more reliable than the mainstream media, and possibly even less.

[Eaker]

I have no dog in this fight but when you posted:

here’s the Reader’s Digest version of this story:

I consider your "Reader’s Digest version" of this story just your opinion and nothing else. I am sure everyone else here sees it in the same light.

[DannyW]

If Anna stay with the Bakers, she will find out what they have done to her as she get older. She will be mad\upset knowing the Bakers use every little dirty tricks to take her away from her biological parents. If the Bakers really loves Anna, they would have at least let Jack and Casey visit Anna (best interest for Anna, right?) while they were fighting for the custody (instead of calling the police to scare them away).

The Bakers create the whole stranger situtation and of course this is part of their dirty plan.

I am confident Anna will get thought this.

[Yaelle]

I didn’t get it that there was a dirty plan. I agree that one day Anna will be very upset over what has happened and I do hope she will be helped through it.

[USA Girl]

....and mere opinions like yours are worth much, much less.

[DesScorp]

"The judge in this case (and the ‘adoptive’ parents, to an extent) created the problems. Didn’t read the article, so I can’t comment on that, but the He’s deserve to have THEIR child."

They did no such thing. The adoptive parents were simply fighting for their child, who wasvoluntarily given up by her birth parents. This kid wasn't stolen. The birth parents changed their mind later, and decided they wanted her back after all. Well, you can't do that, or adoption becomes a sham.

There was no fraud involved, and the adopted girl has never even met her birth parents. The courts screwed up on this one, and its a double standard, because "the best interests of the child" is the rule. A man that finds out a child isn't his biologically still has to care for or pay for care of that child because the courts have always held that if thats the only parents that child has ever known, then the interests of the child comes first. This ruling has turned that standard on its head.

[ga medic]

You can call my opinions worthless if you want. The fact is that I spent my childhood in foster care, and have had foster children in my home. I have also adopted two children of my sisters, to prevent them from living through the same foster care nightmare that I did.

WND wrote this article with a bias, but if you feel that is the best source of information then take it. I have far too much experience with the foster care system to believe the information in the article. There are two sides to every story, and in foster care, the child’s side is almost never good. I respect your sympathy for the child, and assure you that I too am sympathetic. THe situation is a painful reminder from my own past. I would encourage you to evaluate information from other sources, and to look at the case objectively. There is much to be learned, and it certainly highlights the unfairness and problems in our foster care system. It just isn’t as cut and dry as WND wants you to think it is.

[ga medic]

“and mere opinions like yours are worth much, much less.”

Interesting that you should say this. That is what I was told as a child, when I tried to discuss my living arrangements with the social worker(s) in charge of my case. They were never interested in my opinions, and invariably acted completely opposite of what I told them. Some things never change I guess.

[ladyjane]

They were illegals,... Dad is facing sexual assault charges, and they are in the country illegally

OMG

[USA Girl]

My whole point is that what the child wants is most important in this case. You and I don’t differ a bit in that regard.