Two things:
1. Best interest of
the child needs to be the overriding factor.
Children are not ketchup bottles,
parceled out to the party that has the best “right” to them. The first few years of a child’s life have a huge—perhaps defining—role in determining whether or not the child will
grow up to be a stable, productive, loving adult. The earlier the child can be placed in a
stable, nurturing home, the better. One
year is plenty of time for the birth parents to try to regain rights. After that the adoption should be permanent.
2. If the supreme
court agrees with the state court, and allows the birth father to regain rights
at this late date, it will have a chilling effect on adoptions nationwide—both
for people hoping to adopt, and for adoptive parents. How can they be sure that the child is
theirs to keep?
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