Theos-Talk Archives (May 2002 Message tt00104)

leonmaurer@aol.com wrote:
> Are Eldon and Dallas the only ones here who understood the message of the "2
> questions for thinkers"?

Did I know what the questions were supposed to mean? Yes, I did. Did I
think they were good examples of what they were supposed to mean? No, I
thought that they were completely invalid as examples. 

You want a REAL example question? A mother gives up her child for
adoption, with the proviso that she has 30 days to change her mind. 25
days after giving birth, she changes her mind. Rather than give back the
child, the prospective adoptive parents flee to another state with the
child. Due to legal entanglements, the final decision does not take
place until the child is 5 years old. What is the best decision: Give
the child to the natural mother, or to the adoptive parents, which were
the only parents she has known in her life?

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In a similar case, the courts awarded the child to the natural mother.
It certainly was a hardship on the child, but if the judge had awarded
the child to the adoptive parents, it would have given a green light for
people who have lost custody of babies to flee to other states and drag
the case through the courts. Rewarding the adoptive parents, who were in
fact kidnappers, would have been a much greater miscarriage of justice
than requiring the daughter to move in with a mother she has never
known.

Bart Lidofsky