If larceny is: "The crime of taking someone else's property without consent." Then...?

Question

When a foster parent is fostering or adopting a child, and the biological parents WANT their child back, isn't that larceny?

Answer 1

No  the state took the child for poor parenting, drug use, etc the foster parent is who the state chooses to place the child with

Answer 2

Lol, no. Children are not defined as property under federal or state law. And in any case, if a child is fostered then the parent's competence has obviously come into question and if adopted then it was the parent's decision (they gave their consent to have the child adopted).

Answer 3

Larceny?  Property?  What about  drugie mothers, who are unwilling to property care for their kids.  I bet they want them back, but for what end?  This is getting silly- Property?

Answer 4

I was taken without MY consent, does that count?

Answer 5

Kids are people not property.

If I abuse and neglect my car no one takes it away...... IT'S A THING.

Ask this question from the childs perspective.

Answer 6

Uh, no.  The child is under the state's care as the parent somehow lost their "right".  Not that a child is property, but a child needs protecting and the state has been appointed as protector.

Answer 7

Nope, not at all.  Children are not property so this doesn't apply.  Also, since the adoptions are legally sanctioned (whether or not the bio parents agree) there is no intent to commit a crime.  Foster parents are acting under the authority of the Director of Childrens Aid (at least in my jurisdiction) and therefore have the lawful authority to care for the children on behalf of the State while the issues are being worked out either in Court or what ever appropriate mechanism applies.

Answer 8

So, according to you, children are property?  Things?  Commodities?  Items to be bought, sold, traded, stolen?  Niiiiice.  I sure hope you don't have kids.

Kristy, your avatars have gotten loose again.  If you can't keep control of them, I'm going to have to call avatar control and have them put down.

Answer 9

Bad argument.  Larceny applies to personal property, children are not considered property anymore.

Answer 10

Yes, but whomever has the deepest pockets and is willing to fork over the money has the loudest voice. Bush and the republican conservative religious criminal cronies need to go.

Fortunately, our society is starting to wake up to the atrocity of "legal kidnapping" and self serving childless perverts who have distorted the ethics and purpose of adoption.

The best interest of children has been put in the backseat.