Matt and Melanie Capobianco had arranged a private adoption that began at birth for a little girl who is half-hispanic, half-Cherokee indian. The biological father had given up all rights to the child before she was born, but after finding out that she was adopted, he decided to fight to get her back. For a while there, he won. Despite having raised her from birth for 2 years the courts still took Veronica back to her father and it's just now that the Capobianco's have finally gotten their daughter back. The case made it all the way up to the Supreme Court seeing as how many Tribal Laws and State Laws were having to be thought through, and now Veronica is safe back home with the Capobianco's in South Carolina.
It's nice to see that this family was able to be put back together. I do recognize the biological fathers role, however, he made himself irrelevant when he signed away his rights to his daughter before she was even born. The controversy over the Tribal Laws and whether they take precedence is irrelevant when you look at the situation and see how he's just using those laws as an excuse to take her back when he didn't even want her in the first place. So I wish her true family luck and hope that they can have some serenity in knowing that this conflict is over now.
http://news.yahoo.com/police-escort-adoptive-parents-home-u-battle-over-210334622.html
I wonder what happened to the biological mother in this case. It's strange how the biological father was only interested once he knew his daughter was being adopted. I'm glad the family was reunited.
ReplyDeleteIt's rather suspicious that the father was interested after finding out that she had been adopted. Perhaps he thought he could sue them and profit from it... Or, perhaps he realized that he actually cared about her. We may never know the truth.
ReplyDeleteWhere does the biological mother fall into this case? I think it's also annoying that the biological father presented himself only after he found out that the child was adopted. Also if the Tribal Laws are explained more we might have a better sense of the obstacles the family had to go through in this legal process.
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