Have the rights of natural parents been compromised for the sake of adoption permanency?
When we switched from working with foster care to trying to adopt older children internationally, we interviewed many agencies. All of them started out with an overview of their programs and most of them boasted about what a great state we live in for infant adoption. There’s a very short revocation period. Fathers have only a few weeks to see an ad in a paper and then their rights are terminated without recourse. They acted like this was a good thing. I didn’t want to have someone else’s child on a technicality, I wanted a child that truly needed a home. This is why infant adoption scared me and I adopted older kids. Definitely the laws in my state seem to be driven by adoption agencies & adoptive parents who are concerned about having to give their baby back. I think we need to have more uniform rules & better communication from state to state. There should be a fair amount of time for a woman to change her mind after signing papers, but she shouldn’t be allowed to sign papers at all
