h for the birth father. Unlike Baby Jessica's case, Baby Richard's case raised the chilling prospect that even a completed, legal adoption could be upended. ( Ingrassia, 44)The social workers of our time have initiated a program called"Family Reunification," where their primary goal is to take children away from the loving homes of adoptive parents and put them with blood relatives, even when these people have beaten, burned, or sexually abused their blood children. Our court systems think that they protect traditional values by believing that blood-parents, not adoptive parents, are the "real" parents and they are simply mistaken.Today it seems as if we live in a society where the court systems are more interested in the selfishness of originally un-wanting parents than the well-being of our future; our children....
