You may have read about a prominent Dutch diplomat and his wife who “returned” their Korean daughter, whom they adopted when she was four months old. They handed the girl over to social workers in Hong Kong saying the adoption had not worked out.
In a statement published by Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, Raymond Poeteray — a Hong Kong-based Consul — said his daughter was “very sick,” and suffers from a “severe form of fear of emotional attachment.”
The child currently lives in a separate house, (the Hong Kong Foster system) and the entire family is in therapy.
“We tried intensive family …read more

With writers like Dr. Jane Aronson, Jeff Gammage, Gloria Hochman, Hollee McGinnis, Katy Robinson, and this week’s big talker, Tama Janowitz, Relative Choices is bound to be a hit.
But when they start to censor comments…people get pissed.

For the record, and as an adoptive parent, I am actually offended by the post. I think it all goes back to the fact that I didn’t save my son and I don’t think it is at all funny to think that my son, at the same age as her daughter, might be (in his case) in a mental institution or on the …read more