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

It is often said that an adopted child is born from the heart. I know that AJ certainly was born in my heart. The first time I saw his picture I was sitting alone in my classroom shaking, my eyes tearing with joy because I knew, in my heart and deep in my soul that I had finally found my child.
Months later when I was sitting in a social worker’s office in Russia waiting for him to come to the room I paced nervously. How would he react to me? Would he like me? Would he let me hold him? …read more