Yes, exactly. They recognize now, most places, that separation after bonding is traumatic for an infant, and can even result in attachment disorder or other problems long term. It's better to place the child with the adoptive parents, who should be adult enough to be able to hand them back, painful as it is, if the birth mother changes her mind within the allowed time.
I don't have all the details of this case, but I find it hard to believe that there wasn't a wait time before the adoption was final. I suspect it's something like that other case several years ago, where the birth mother changed her mind, the adoptive parents refused to return the child even though they had no legal right to keep her, they fought in court for years, and the birth mother eventually won. Sounds like in this case they made some kind of visitation arrangement rather than fighting over custody for years.
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Date: 2007-01-04 07:01 am (UTC)I don't have all the details of this case, but I find it hard to believe that there wasn't a wait time before the adoption was final. I suspect it's something like that other case several years ago, where the birth mother changed her mind, the adoptive parents refused to return the child even though they had no legal right to keep her, they fought in court for years, and the birth mother eventually won. Sounds like in this case they made some kind of visitation arrangement rather than fighting over custody for years.