Friday, March 21, 2014

Why a white mother from Spokane, WA, gave back her [violent] adopted son from Haiti [and still sounds clueless]


Why Mother Gave Back Her Adopted Son

A difficult decision was the right choice for Stacey Conner's family.

Stacey Conner, a 41-year-old mom and former attorney from Spokane, Wash., dreamed of having a large family with biological and adopted kids. "The world is a big place with a lot of children in it; we wanted to bring some of those into our family, to give our love to kids without it," she says. After she volunteered in an orphanage in poverty-torn Haiti in 2005, Conner and her husband, Matt, a pharmacist, decided to adopt two children. But the process was so slow that by October 2006, when they brought home their (unrelated) 5-year-old Haitian son and 1-year-old Haitian daughter, Conner had given birth to a son, who was 1. "Having an instant multicultural family was magical," Conner says, "for about two weeks." . . .

http://ca.shine.yahoo.com/blogs/parenting/why-one-mother-gave-back-her-adopted-son-163800330.html