[news] Children Should Not Settle Custody Disputes

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

I was very disturbed by a news story I saw recently about a girl named “Anna Mae.” ABC News summarized the story as an adoption case gone awry. A child with Chinese parents is at the center of an adoption custody lawsuit. When I saw the home videos that the adoptive parents, the Bakers, used on TV to try to win people over to their side, I was appalled. They asked 8 year old Anna if she wanted to go to China, and she said something like “No, I *never* want to go there.” And in another clip, they show her in a big sombrero and the Bakers said she “rejects her Chinese heritage and tells people she is Mexican.” The Bakers came off looking like horribly shallow racists, to be honest. 

  


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