[hrisme]

Didn't want to hijack the thread on birthparents placing children back in foster care voluntarily, but have to ask---why is it that birth parents can place their children in foster care voluntarily, but if adoptive parents disrupt a placement, returning an extremely damaged child to foster care they are charged with abandonment? Not that I think "birth parents" shouldn't be able to choose to act in the best interest of their children and relinquish them if that is what is best for the child, but shouldn't parents who have adopted a child SOMEONE ELSE left with severe emotional disorders have the same right?