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How long do parents have rights over their children if they put them up for adoption? When a parent gives up their child, do they give up their rights for life, or can they come back years later to take the child back? I believe the movie Losing Isaiah deals with this premise. Let's say a mother puts a child up for adoption. That child is adopted. Five years later, after the mother has gotten herself cleaned up, she wants her child back. Should she be able to take her child back? First, the child is now used to his/her adoptive parents who have provided for him/her for five years now. The adoptive parents have proven that they can take care of the child. What has the biological mother done? She has stated that by giving her child up for adoption she could not handle being a parent. Beyond that, the only thing she has on her side is that she gave physical birth to the child. IS that really enough? Almost any woman can give birth. But it takes a true mother to raise and care for a child, biologically related or not. Genetic relations should not carry that much weight in this world. Obviously it matters somewhat, but not enough, in my view, to force a child to go back to a parent that gave that child up at some point in his or her life. Compassion and love are worth more than a similar genetic makeup. |