Possession is 9/10ths of the law
Quick summary: Undocumented worker picked up in raid and jailed for two years loses her child to adoptive parents who now claim the kid should stay with them:
The Mosers argue that even if their adoption wasn’t proper - which is key to Romero’s case - it wouldn’t be in the best interest of the child to take him away from the parents he knows now and send him to another country.
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But in any event, if you want somebody else’s kid it’s a good idea to maintain possession. That way, you can claim that it isn’t in the child’s best interest to be taken away from the only home he knows. Like when kids grow up in orphanages, that’s the only life they’ve known.
And of course it isn’t in a child’s best interest to take him out of an English-speaking household and place him in a Spanish-speaking household. Because it’s too traumatic. So people should never be allowed to move to other countries. And children should not be adopted by parents who don’t speak their birth language.
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The rest is at Resist Racism.
The Mosers argue that even if their adoption wasn’t proper - which is key to Romero’s case - it wouldn’t be in the best interest of the child to take him away from the parents he knows now and send him to another country.
...
But in any event, if you want somebody else’s kid it’s a good idea to maintain possession. That way, you can claim that it isn’t in the child’s best interest to be taken away from the only home he knows. Like when kids grow up in orphanages, that’s the only life they’ve known.
And of course it isn’t in a child’s best interest to take him out of an English-speaking household and place him in a Spanish-speaking household. Because it’s too traumatic. So people should never be allowed to move to other countries. And children should not be adopted by parents who don’t speak their birth language.
...
The rest is at Resist Racism.