Surrendering a child for adoption is more traumatic than having an abortion, maintains Delayn Curtis, coordinator of the Orange County-Inland Empire branch of Concerned United Birthparents (CUB).
The United States and Guatemala had just joined 68 other countries around the world in agreeing to regulate adoptions -- requiring basic standards of documentation like DNA tests to verify that the person who surrenders a child for adoption is, in fact, a biological parent.
In December, workers at Animal Care Centers of New York City saw nothing remarkable on a standard behavior test of a dog named Blue, but noted that he had been surrendered for biting a child.
It is at this doorstep that parents blithely surrender their child to a dance teacher for a few hours at a time every week.
At the same time, four other infants have been abandoned in ditches and bus stops despite the "safe haven" law, which permits a mother to surrender her child anonymously to a police officer, emergency medical technician or hospital within 72 hours of giving birth.
A6 World Briefing A10 NATIONAL A20-29 Reno's Bid For Elian Fails to Resolve His Status After a dramatic day of talks between federal officials and Miami relatives of 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez, United States Attorney General Janet Reno told a relative of the boy that he had until 2 p.m. to surrender the child at an airport outside Miami.
Thus, for many black parents, homeschooling equates with a refusal to surrender their children to a system that they see as bent on destroying them.
The allure of authorities has nothing to do with rational reasons and everything to do with emotional ones - nostalgic ties for one's past and tradition, the need for belonging and being accepted, and the yearning to become a child once again -- by surrendering to authorities, whom one simply obeys.
"Sperm and egg donors are not surrendering a live born child.
How can I work with you to help them get back on track?" Parents shift from enduring the tragedy of their child dropping out and saying "That school is racist" to going up to the school to say "I will not surrender my child's human right to a full education.
