News making the rounds
I found it first on Twice the Rice. Then PAGent posted about it. Then Figlet.
The gist: a diplomat and his wife, while living in Korea, adopt a 4-month-old little girl (and choose, of all stereotypical names, "Jade" for her name). When the girl is 3, they move to Hong Kong. At that point, they have two biological children. At age 7, they decide to abandon their child to the social welfare system in Hong Kong, apparently citing "culture shock" or "inability to integrate into our lifestyle" or "problem with our foods" or "inability to integrate into our family", depending on which story you read. Oh, yes, and then there’s the fact that she hasn’t been made a citizen of the diplomat’s country, or of Hong Kong, so she’s still a Korean citizen–but she doesn’t speak Korean–but she’ll probably have to go back to Korea in order to be legally adopted out again.
Dudes, OmegaDotter is almost six.
I simply cannot imagine taking her by the hand, taking her to Catholic Social Services or the county borough welfare system, and saying, "Eh…she’s too much for us. She doesn’t like to eat the same things we do. And, geez, she still won’t sleep in her own bedroom, and does the Foot Thing, and bashes against us as a sign of love, and we can’t take it any more. Find her another home."
I find myself desperately hoping that there’s more to this story, that this couple aren’t as clueless and obnoxious as it seems. That the child was threatening their smaller children. That she had RAD and this is the end of a years-long struggle. Or something. That the "she doesn’t fit into their lifestyle" commentary was made by a grumpy social worker without a clue, rather than coming from the mouths of the adoptive parents.
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