[ontheroad]

My kids have also displayed an unwillingness to eat the food I provide- but I've not thrown them out yet!

That's the worse excuse I've heard ever.

Kids, adopted or not, are for life. You can't just get rid of them if they're not perfect. No child is.

Even if there's more to the story, and we shouldn't be judging people we know nothing about, unless you're giving all your kids away because you can't afford to raise them anymore, there's just no excuse.

Also, what I don't understand is this: the foreign press has massively printed the story about the 14 year old who threw her newborn out the window, but I've not seen this story picked up at all.
How come? For me it's a million times more shocking that a (rich, white) expat family would get rid of their (seven year-old) child, than the desperate act of a lost teenager.