[ncoaster]

Found this to be terribly sad.

[JusPasenThru]

We adopted an 11y/o from overseas recently. There are times that it’s a temptation — but I would no sooner “return” the child than to sell one of my “biologicals” into slavery. Adoption should be like child-birth; they’re yours for keeps.

[Bastiat_Fan]

I guess the kid was just a fashion accessory, once she wasn’t super cute anymore, time to get a new one. Horrible people.

[maine-iac7]

then-four-months-old

a bit young to have been affected by "severe form of fear of emotional attachment." - unless, I highly suspicion, that the parents, particularly mummie-dearest, was too busy with her society socials to give the baby any crucial "emotional attachment" - but treated the poor child like a toy to possess but let a hired hand take care of.

I do hope their karma catches up with them - and some loving person will take this little girl in

[keats5]

Wow. They kept her for seven years and then decided this wasn’t working? What are they thinking?

All three of my kids were from orphanages. Two were relatively unaffected because they were adopted at 9 mos and 1 year. However, one was pretty closed emotionally, after three years in a state run orphanage.

We never dreamed of giving up on any of them. The one we had the most fears about grew to be a warm, open and talented young man. He’s 17 now and he’s such a joy.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

"On the advice of known medical specialists, professionals from the adoption organization Mother's Choice and the social services of Hong Kong, it was decided that in her interest she should be placed in a separate house and we would not be allowed to have any contact with her," he wrote.

Yeah, right! What creeps this guy and his pompous looking wife are...!

[JimSEA]

While I have never known anyone who attempted to return an adopted child, I do know of two instances where the adoption turned out tragically.

The first was with a couple who, even though adopting an infant, expected the child to magically grow up a well behaved Asian child like those they had seen in the country from which they adopted the child.

In the second instance, when the wife had children or her own, they turned the adopted child into a servant.

Both cases seem as cruel and absurd as this one. Hopefully this child can be placed with decent people.

[Hunble]

I have two divorced daughters that I would like to return.

Oh well, that is why dogs are cats are so much better.

[Graybeard58]

When my kids hit the teen years I found myself wondering if there was a way to return a biological child.

[azhenfud]

Bookmarked

[exit82]

Can an adopted child be returned?

Only with the original receipt and within thirty days./s/

[gotribe]

...the girl was cared for by nannies.

The only emotionally detached people in this story are the parents.