Of course. But they're not Shanghaied out of the country.
"I feel sorry for the child. but it still was a stupid thing for the foster family to do. They never had a legal leg to stand on and they did the baby a diservice by not returning it immediately when the birthparents requested the child back. This is not an issue of being civilized. This is an issue of case law."
Most kind you care for the child. It's in an alien country absolutely foreign to her upbringing. HER rights were totally trashed in an effort to "right" a wrong of long ago. Two evils do not make an appropriate redress. She did not deserve to be victimized in such a heinous manner. If her birth parents cared about her, they'd wish her to remain in her home. Certainly arrangements could've been made and facilitated by the courts for their immigration to this country so they could be united HERE.
"Parents get their kids unless there is a compellling reason why THEY should not have the kid. Not whether there is a compelling reason why the kid should stay where it is."
There was a compelling reason. She was a complete alien to the culture for which they were seeking to return her to, for which her rights aren't recognized. As I said, there's a big difference between an infant vs. a child old enough to be caused enormous damage by such an unconscionable repatriation.
But they’re not Shanghaied out of the country.
She went to the country of her parents. She was not shanghied out of the country she went home to her cultural and parental homeland.
“I feel sorry for the child. but it still was a stupid thing for the foster family to do. They never had a legal leg to stand on and they did the baby a diservice by not returning it immediately when the birthparents requested the child back. This is not an issue of being civilized. This is an issue of case law.”
Most kind you care for the child. It’s in an alien country absolutely foreign to her upbringing. HER rights were totally trashed in an effort to “right” a wrong of long ago.
Tousands of children arrive on this shore every day from exotic places and are expected to cope.
Two evils do not make an appropriate redress. She did not deserve to be victimized in such a heinous manner. If her birth parents cared about her, they’d wish her to remain in her home. Certainly arrangements could’ve been made and facilitated by the courts for their immigration to this country so they could be united HERE.
YOu are right, the fosters victimized her and thought that they would win. But they didnt and she got burned. It is easy to say that she should have had a middle class American life, but that is not what her parents WANTED for her and they are the are the determiners of her life, just as I determine my own childrens’ lives. We do not have the right to good parents, as hard and gut wrenching as that may be.
“Parents get their kids unless there is a compellling reason why THEY should not have the kid. Not whether there is a compelling reason why the kid should stay where it is.”
There was a compelling reason. She was a complete alien to the culture for which they were seeking to return her to, for which her rights aren’t recognized. As I said, there’s a big difference between an infant vs. a child old enough to be caused enormous damage by such an unconscionable repatriation.
AS I said earlier, children are repatriated all over the world. Happens all the time. Several are my acquaintences and friends came to the states between 5 and 18.
There is nothing that can be done about the law or the little girls predictament. Perhaps freepers here can start a fund to help with her college expenses when she is of age. People are hurt all the time when the law is enforced. Little kids lose their parents to prisons and deportation. Fact of life. Our work is to help the hurting. So what can you directly do about this particular girl that is on your heart?
Start a fund?
Write to her?
Go to China and visit here?
Or are you just having an emtional moment and getting your needs met?