Who's Yer Daddy?

I've been trying to ignore the Evan Scott case. You know the one....3.5 year old child removed from the home of the couple who has raised him thus far. This weekend he was returned to the custody of his biological mother. Everyone's all up in arms about the callous courts doing such a heinous thing to this poor child.

Give me a break!

3.5 years ago, the Scotts were all set to adopt Evan at the time of his birth. Suddenly, the child's biological father exercised his parental rights and blocked the adoption. So, what did the Scotts do? Rather than gracefully bowing out and allowing the child's biological parents to raise him, they hung on to the baby. And more than three years later, they view him as their child. Legally, however, they have no rights to him whatsoever. They condemn the courts for not acting "in Evan's best interests." How about THEIR actions and how they negatively affect the child's welfare? Did they think the boy's natural parents would just go away eventually, if they held on to him long enough? How could they raise this child for three years, with no legal right to do so, and think everyone was going to live happily ever after?

The Scotts should have found themselves another baby. This one belongs to someone else. "Finders-keepers" doesn't apply to kids.