Terry Achane adoption case

[zinnia_rose]

The Utah Supreme Court today put a temporary hold on a trial judge's orders to return a little girl to her soldier father after she was given up for adoption without his consent two years ago.

Comments

[not_emily]

Ugh. That's just sick.

[thepikey]

That's probably a bit of a misstatement on their part. He's not just the biological father (as a rapist would be) but the actual parent.

At no point were his parental rights taken away from him by a court

[spyral_path]

I'm an atheist and I still know stealing someone else's child is wrong. The Fries probably think if they drag this out long enough eventually they'll find a judge who'll say it would traumatized the little girl to take her away from the only family she's ever known.

[emofordino]

it just reminds me of that old movie with halle berry where she's a crack addict and put her baby in the garbage when she was high and it ended up in the hospital where a doctor adopted him and then they went through a huge legal battle once the bio mom got clean again, and the lawyers were like "but this is the only family he's ever knowwwwwn and i think eventually the bio mom gave up.

except in this case the only thing the father did was just have to be away from his family for his work, which in the military, you don't really have that much of a choice. to say he's "unfit" is just really gross and untrue, not to mention unfair.

i really, really hope that achane gets his daughter back. the frei family sounds obnoxious tbh, they knew this was wrong the whole fucking time!

[teacup_werewolf]

That's Raising Issiah if I recall. Bio mom actually got her son back and I think the adoptive mom helps her? But there was a big legal battle a lot of racism and lot of ethical sophism on a black baby being raised with a white mother.

[mollywobbles867]

Losing Isaiah.

[perrie]

I'd also add re; the communicating with his child bit, in the UK once a closed adoption has been completed, the biological parents can't contact the child until a certain age. I'm assuming there a rule like that in the US which would also prevent him getting in contact with her?

[justagimmick]

Not considering legalities, she's TWO. If the adoptive couple say no, how is he meant to make contact?

[ebay313]

I'm sure that they are not allowing him contact, and yet then turn around and claim that lack of contact reflects badly on him. They have all the power in that situation regarding possible contact -_-

[maladaptive]

Not if he hasn't signed a contract, I'm pretty sure?

[friggasmuse]

I think there are circumstances which pertain to stripping the father of rights. Was he abusive and putting the fetus and mother in harmful situations? Was the conception because of rape? Did he abandon the mother and fetus?

I feel that in this case, the adoption was conducted unethically. I do have some questions though. If the father is a soldier, will he be sent overseas and if yes, where will the child go?

Would the law have been followed if the child had been from a white family?

[friggasmuse]

Ugh, how corrupt. Thank you for explaining utah's ruling on adoption. I'm from Canada where things are a little more cut and dry when it comes to adoption but cases like this (especially concerning First Nations children) are still prevalent.

[pepsquad]

fuck that family they need to give the child back. and that is why we didn't adopt because this shit is wrong and so heart wrenching for all involved.

[chaya]

that is why we didn't adopt

That makes it sound like there aren't any orphans in the world.

[pepsquad]

there are however domestic adoption was the route we wanted to go and we would have liked to have adopted an infant.

[sidesmile]

There are, but at the same time the world of international adoption is incredibly corrupted and filled with stories of social stigma of single mothers, forced coercion etc. I hate to say it, but adoption has become a business of selling babies.