Supreme Court rules for adoptive parents in Baby Veronica case

[jwirr]

32. I am not taking sides on this but I think that a little history regarding the reasons behind this

law might be valuable. Years ago it was not unusual for Native American children to be taken away to government schools even to the point that they were more or less kidnapped. Another thing that happened was that children were actually stolen by some family who wanted to "adopt" them. My family in South Dakota took a Native American girl that way. These kind of happenings are why the law was enacted in the first place. It gave Native Amerivan's some control over their own children.

This case is different in that this child was placed in the couples home by a court. But there is a real problem with the fact that the father was never told he had a child until they tried to adopt the girl. I would think that the previous courts that placed her should have had the obligation of contacting the father.

Our family had a chance to adopt a member of my sil's family but choose not to when we found out that the foster family wanted to adopt him. This is a very emotional issue and there is no one size fits all cases.