DanielDec 14th, 2007 - 18:53:36

That's a little bullshit.
Regardless of all the buearocracy with adoption, an adopted child is still your child. Just because she might have behaviorial problems, you don't just put her in temporary foster care. Considering how the parents didn't applied for Dutch citizenship for their adopted daughter, is quite disturbing, especially when they are claiming she does not 'fit in' with their Dutch lifestyle. Which doesn't make sense to begin with, since they lived in Asia.

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LadyDec 14th, 2007 - 23:15:06

Though they adopted Jade in Korea, he is diplomat who action is under the Dutch law which means that the adoption was an international not a domestic.

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Julie R.Dec 15th, 2007 - 14:37:58

I was extremely disappointed to read the body of this article whose title offered so much hope. There should indeed be questions raised. Questions about how prospective adoptive parents are educated regarding raising adopted children. Questions about how to work with one's adopted child in resolving issues of separation, abandonment, identity, belonging, etc.

In other words, the psychological and emotional challenges of being an adopted infant, child, and adult are quite real but all too often glossed over or wholly omitted (as in this article) in favor of discussing procedures for procuring children.

What do such procedures have to do with the cause of this child's behavioral problems and, thus, the disruption of her adoption? It is obvious to most who are aware of the psychological and emotional challenges of adoption that Jade's problems are a result of neglect - emotional and psychological neglect.

While I understand she was in family therapy, that information only serves to support the sad fact that most therapists are untrained and unaware of the unique needs of adopted children. Such therapists tend to exacerbate these children's problems rather than facilitate resolution.

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