Do you think the Canadian/US govts should follow this country's lead....?

Question

or continue to turn a blind eye to childrens rights.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=30&objectid=10528679

Answer 1

Yes, any time there is proof that the child was kidnapped, they should be returned to the family they were stolen from.  The kidnappers deserve to be punished, as do the AP's, IF there is proof that they were aware that the child was kidnapped.

Unfortunately, the ones who will be punished the most, are the kids, completely innocent and undeserving of the pain they are about to experience.  

This has SO much potential for destroying so many people, even though it's the right thing to do.

Answer 2

yes, actually I hope they will and think they should...

and maybe more people will help find homes for kids in US foster care

Answer 3

I don’t agree with it. I just don’t see how it can be healthy in any way to rip kids who are 10 and 9 years old going on 11 and 10 away from the only family they have known and give them back to biological kin but who are nonetheless strangers. I would hope that all adults in their lives could come to an arrangement that was the best thing for the child.

Certainly i feel the natural parents should start to be apart of the kids lives and that if they have to go back and live with their natural family, That their family they have known for 10 years+ should remain a large part of their lives. If they remain with their adoptive family then their natural family should be able to be a big part of their live. They just need to do whats best for the kid and not whats best for the adults. Either way the child will have 4 parents who love them very much and that's not a bad thing.

Answer 4

That's amazing....and heartbreaking at the same time. Unfortunately this happened in the lat 90's....so returning children to parents they don't even know will be terribly difficult for them. I don't want to come off like this is remotely bad....I am wholeheartedly against kidnapping children for any purpose....I just wonder what a 10 year old would feel like if she were suddenly removed from the only parents she has ever known. It doesn't say, but are the adoptive parents 'in' on this or were they unaware? Any mother who has her child stolen from her should be able to regain custody regardless of the time limits....I simply worry about their emotional well-being.

Answer 5

This is heartbreaking  for the parents who lost their children never knowing what had happened to them and for the parents who will have their hearts ripped out if they discover their children will have to be returned to their original families (I am assuming they did not know they were kidnapped).

But mostly, my heart breaks for the innocent children. To be taken from the only family you have known and loved for 10 years will be gut wrenching and I worry about the emotional fallout.

I agree that children who are proven to have been kidnapped do need to be returned to their families, HOWEVER, I do believe it would be in everyone's best interests, particularly the child's for both sets of parents to come together and work out a plan for the parents who loved and raised them for 10 years to remain a large part of their lives.