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Just sharing an interesting story...[font=verdana]A couple who adopted and then returned a four-year-old boy to an Indonesian orphanage will have to support him until he is 18, an Irish court ruled today.[/font][url]http://www.utvlive.com/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=70777&pt=n[/url]
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That is wild and tragic. I'm surprised they could return him to the orphanage. I thought once you adopted a child if you wanted to relinquish him/her that child was relinquished within the country. The court decision spells that out, I guess, saying that he's an Irish citizen.I wonder if they'd disrupted the adoption and he'd been adopted by someone else if the same decision would have been made.Don't really have an opinion, but I did find this interesting in a sad sort of way.
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There was a TV show (20/20?) a few years ago. A woman flew back to to Russia and dropped her adopted daughter off at the orphanage and flew back home.And very recently there was a story about a Canadian family that did the same thing to a Romanian child. Now this child is an adult and they are stuck in legal limbo. The adoption removed her Romanian citizenship so she couldn't go to school or get government assistance. But she lives in Romanian.