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I know of several failed international adoptions. In one case the family had 3 bio boys and adopted a 5-year-old girl from El Salvador. She had been happy in her foster home and her foster parents in El Salvador wanted to adopt her. She was very disruptive (started fires, destroyed property, ran away, injured herself). After about a year with no bonding the adoptive family returned her to the agency and she was sent back to El Salvador. They were later matched with an infant boy.
In the second case the parents divorced and neither one wanted their 3-year-old Korean son. The mother's divorce lawyer ended up adopting him.
INS rules and agency regulations make "returning" an international child difficult, but I know of more than one case where the child has been informally "passed on" to another family (usually relatives). Sometimes the child is re-adopted by the other family and other times it is just an informal fostering.
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