My fellow Strollerderby blogger, Jeanne Sager, reports this morning on the case of an American Indian baby adopted outside his tribe being ordered to be returned to the tribe by his adoptive parents at the age of six months.
When
my children (both adopted) were babies, one of the most common
questions strangers would ask us is "can her real mother take her
back?" Setting aside the problematic word "real," what annoyed me most
about this question was the evidence it gave me that the population
generally buys into the myth that adoption--especially domestic
adoption--is a dangerous game in which tentative families are made,
then torn asunder willy-nilly by impetuous birth mothers "changing
their minds" about their adoption decision.
The fact is, in spite
of the high publicity cases like the one Jeanne shares with us receive
from the media, real adoption disruptions are incredibly rare. In the
Utah case, bad adoption law
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