Would the children having to be cared for in Ireland be worse than selling out the future of the US? Assuming this is the blackmail issue, Roberts has not thought it through.
I disagree with his decision and think America would have been shocked if he had made blackmail threat known. But that aside the children would likely not have been “cared for” in Ireland. The adoption would have likely have been void and they would have lost them. They then could have worked on doing the adoption legally since moms were willing to let them have the children.