What about the best interest of the child? A long time ago in this country that was the decision that a judge would make in a case like this, not awarding the prize to one side or the other. Things have changed in that regard and not for the better IMO. Besides the lack of available healthy infants for adoption, couples wanting to adopt prefer to find children overseas now, since there is far less chance that the birth parent or parents will have a change of heart several years later and sue to have the child returned to them. In our court system presently, they have a good chance of "reclaiming their property."
Don’t make an online fool of yourself like others in this thread.
Read the backstory.
Shame on the He’s for wanting to raise their OWN child.
/sarc
The best interest of the child doesn’t seem to be considered much in foster child cases. There are literally thousands of children in the US who are being subject to the same experience. It is unfair, but not uncommon. I was in the foster care system 30 years ago, and not much has changed since then.
As for this case, there is more to the story than what is in this article. Anna Mae was a foster child, not an adopted child. Every foster parent is well informed that the child can be given back to the parents or to other foster parents. The biological parents tried to get the little girl back for a long period of time, and the foster family fought them every step of the way. The biological parents are no doubt hurting the child by taking her away, but part of the fault lies with these foster parents. She was not adopted, and these foster parents have no rights to her at all.