rockin'robin
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The movie, "Raising Isaiah"....Halle Berry starred as the mother. She was an addict/single mother, who put her baby into a garbage can, left it there, during the winter and snow.
The baby was found, was addicted to crack at birth. A white couple fell in love with the child...and adopted the baby, Isaiah.
When the child was 2 or 3 years old, the mother went to court to get her baby back....and the judge gave the child back to the birth mother!
Because the judge/court felt like a black child should not be raised in a white home!
I cried so much during this movie on "Lifetime"! Will never forget it!
Even tho' the birth mother got clean, off drugs, etc., there is no way in the world that child should have been allowed to go back to her!
This has happened many times, with adoptee parents who are willing to give a child a good home, education, love, etc., to find the courts return the child back to the birth parents, just because they have finally decided to grow up, get off drugs, etc.!
I, too, am an adoptee mother of 3. And no way in the world would I allow my boys to be returned to the birth parents! I would appeal and appeal and exhaust any avenue I could find to prevent it!
After watching this movie, (and it's a true story)..it's bothered me ever since! As I was complating on adopting a deaf child, as my oldest boy will be 18 very soon. Suppose I did, and the child would be snatched away from me because the birth mother decided she wanted the child back? No matter what she did to the child!
Big decision!
The baby was found, was addicted to crack at birth. A white couple fell in love with the child...and adopted the baby, Isaiah.
When the child was 2 or 3 years old, the mother went to court to get her baby back....and the judge gave the child back to the birth mother!
Because the judge/court felt like a black child should not be raised in a white home!
I cried so much during this movie on "Lifetime"! Will never forget it!
Even tho' the birth mother got clean, off drugs, etc., there is no way in the world that child should have been allowed to go back to her!
This has happened many times, with adoptee parents who are willing to give a child a good home, education, love, etc., to find the courts return the child back to the birth parents, just because they have finally decided to grow up, get off drugs, etc.!
I, too, am an adoptee mother of 3. And no way in the world would I allow my boys to be returned to the birth parents! I would appeal and appeal and exhaust any avenue I could find to prevent it!
After watching this movie, (and it's a true story)..it's bothered me ever since! As I was complating on adopting a deaf child, as my oldest boy will be 18 very soon. Suppose I did, and the child would be snatched away from me because the birth mother decided she wanted the child back? No matter what she did to the child!
Big decision!