Reply #152: you've noticed that, too? [View All]

[NorthernSpy]

I especially HATE the cases where the adoptive parents refuse to surrender the children and drag the case through the courts for years and then cry that "They're the only parents the child has ever known".

Exactly! And they do that because they typically have way more dough than the child's parents, and so they figure that the parents will run out of money for legal costs sooner than they will.

Adoptive parents cannot gain ownership of these children just because they want it. I have overheard too many adoptive parents plotting and salivating over how best to "get" the child. From faking emotional attachment to the mother, to getting her to sign papers while she's still drugged from childbirth. Disgusting.

Disgusting? Indeed it is, and that's putting it mildly. It never ceases to amaze me: this presumed entitlement of the affluent to other people's kids.