He's 9 months old and a U.S. citizen. Why does Florida DCF want to send him to Haiti?

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20. He's going to his grandmother and his brother and other family.

This is a very common situation, including the outrage of Americans that we would allow a child to be sent to family in an underdeveloped nation and denied all our advantages.

It might help those who are bothered to remember that people in other nations, including ones with much lower standards of living, often strongly disapprove of various elements of our culture and the way we raise our children here and feel their ways are much better. Many who come here to work leave their children with relatives so they will be raised in their own culture. Over the years, I’ve met many who felt that way.

Note that this baby’s grandmother did not say oh thank goodness on learning than a loving American couple wanted to keep her grandson, so presumably she doesn’t believe her circumstances are as dire as some might imagine.