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...within days, it all began to unravel. Cara saw her ex-boyfriend Dan Schmidt at work and told him everything -- that the baby she had just given up for adoption had been his all along. She began having second thoughts. She went to a support-group meeting of Concerned United Birthparents and heard other mothers' stories of the sorrow they felt at giving up their babies. On March 6 Cara filed a motion to get her daughter back, and a week later Dan did as well. Cara went out shopping for baby clothes...
...other women whom he had made no effort to help raise? Robby wrote letter after letter to children's-rights advocates around the country. She talked to reporters. In January the Iowa Supreme Court agreed to hear the case, but the appeals process dragged on for months. Dan and Cara got married -- and waited to bring their daughter back home. That seemed all but assured when the Iowa Supreme Court upheld the lower-court ruling and said that while Dan's fitness as a parent was questionable and the court was tempted, for Jessica's sake, to leave her with...
...story that holds so much pain for so many people needs a villain. Each set of parents has found grounds to blame the other, and as the stakes rose and the story went public, the charges got uglier. DeBoer supporters claim it was Cara's lie about the father in the first place that started the trouble. But the Schmidts' advocates retort that at the time she gave up her baby, Cara was in a fragile state, without the help of psychological counseling or legal advice. And the courts could not punish Dan for Cara's deception; he never consented...
...when the tears begin to fall and you look at me for reassurance and say, 'Mama's heartbroken,' I will not be able to console you with my loving kisses and say, 'It will all mend.' " And then mother turns on mother. "It will never mend, Jessi. It is Cara and the law that ((have)) broken you into a thousand pieces...
...still has not met Dan -- but she did meet her new grandmothers, when they appeared unexpectedly in Ann Arbor last month. They watched Jessica play, they bathed her. "They were nice," Roberta recalls, and she told Jessica to call them Grandma. As they were leaving, Roberta recalls, Cara's mother thanked her and said, "Take good care of our baby." "I said, 'Well, don't you think we've done a pretty good job in the last 2 1/2 years?' She just looked at me real funny and turned and walked away. It literally tore me to a million pieces...