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Tug-of-Love: Immigrant Mom Loses Effort to Regain Son Given to US Parents
Melinda and Seth Moser, who took him into their home five years ago while his mother was in federal custody, where she attempted in vain to oppose the adoption proceedings
originally posted by: Bluntone22
a reply to: JAGStorm
The kid in question is five years old and has been living with its adoptive parents for five years.
Removing the kid from the only parents it has ever known is extremely cruel.
Seems the case isn't that cut and dried , the child was a baby when the couple took him in so all he's known is them.
originally posted by: JAGStorm
originally posted by: Bluntone22
a reply to: JAGStorm
The kid in question is five years old and has been living with its adoptive parents for five years.
Removing the kid from the only parents it has ever known is extremely cruel.
Cruel is taking him away from his real mom, who never wanted to give him up.
originally posted by: Bluntone22
a reply to: JAGStorm
Then she should have stayed in Guatemala instead of breaking the law.
originally posted by: Bluntone22
a reply to: JAGStorm
The kid in question is five years old and has been living with its adoptive parents for five years.
Removing the kid from the only parents it has ever known is extremely cruel.
The biological mother was arrested in 2007 on an immigration raid at a chicken processing plant in Missouri and has not seen her son since.
originally posted by: JAGStorm
originally posted by: Bluntone22
a reply to: JAGStorm
Then she should have stayed in Guatemala instead of breaking the law.
Two wrongs don't make a right. I think most people can agree she shouldn't have come here, so send her back to her country with her child. There are MANY MANY MANY American children that need homes, why must these people have her child?
originally posted by: Bluntone22
a reply to: highvein
The article is worded kinkade weird.
So is he 10?
Either way.
Maybe ask the kid what he thinks.
His opinion should matter.
Children are almost always better off with their mother especially a loving one that wants them, even in poverty.
originally posted by: Bluntone22
a reply to: highvein
The article is worded kinkade weird.
So is he 10?
Either way.
Maybe ask the kid what he thinks.
His opinion should matter.
originally posted by: Bluntone22
a reply to: JAGStorm
Let her keep in contact.
No problem with that.
But the way I understand it, immigration is based on people looking for better lives for themselves and their families. The adoptive parents will absolutely be able to give her son a better life than she is capable of doing.
Sucks for her but are we worried more about her or the kid?
I'll take the kids welfare every time.
originally posted by: Irishhaf
a reply to: JAGStorm
US law makes it very hard to adopt an American child that is not a blood relative.
I have some friends that went through the process and it took years, and you better hope some blood relative doesn't say I want the child because that can torpedo everything no matter how far along the process is.