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Originally Posted by sethsmommy
I guess I am confused....how, after adoption, can you give them "back?" I know one will feel that way but isn't adoption final?
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Sadly, it is possible for adoptive parents to terminate their parental rights just because they don't feel like parenting the kid(s) anymore. I saw this a few times when I was working on a locked child/adolescent psych. unit. One particuarly sad story is a boy whose adoptive parents admitted him to the hospital at age 6 because of aggression, then left him there for 3 years without ever even visiting. Finally, the state decided to make the family start paying a portion of the medical costs for the kid (all this time they had been recieving disability payments for the kid, who has mild MR), and all of a sudden the parents decided to terminate their rights. The worst part is that the kid's behavior improved immensely while he was in the hospital, so he may very well have been fine with going back home if the family had given him a chance. I honestly wish I could adopt him myself, but his case worker is looking for a two-parent family for him, and I agree that would be the best situation.