Word: deboer
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...surprising wrinkle in the DeBoer-Schmidt case is that it turns more on a father's willingness to relinquish his child than a mother's. Dan Schmidt's quest has raised issues that to date remain largely unresolved. The first question adoption agencies ask birth mothers is whether the baby's father will consent to giving up the child. If the mother doesn't know, some agencies will refuse the case in order to avoid possible court battles. Private adoptions such as the DeBoers' are less strict. More of these may be in jeopardy, says Mary Beth Seader, vice president...
SOMETIME BEFORE MIDNIGHT ON April 20, two-year-old Jessica DeBoer of Ann Arbor, Michigan, is scheduled to disappear, leaving behind a heartbroken couple she calls Mommy and Daddy, a dog named Miles, her yellow bedroom and just about everything she has ever known, except perhaps a few favorite stuffed animals. Under court order, the dark-eyed, inquisitive girl will be transported 400 miles west to the small farming community of Blairstown, Iowa, to begin life anew as Anna Lee Schmidt...
...nurtured her almost since birth. Last Tuesday, the claims of blood prevailed when the Michigan Court of Appeals deferred to an earlier ruling of the Iowa Supreme Court that granted custody of the girl to her biological parents, Cara and Daniel Schmidt. Now the other couple, Roberta and Jan DeBoer, have 21 days to appeal a decision that has sent shudders throughout the nation's adoption community. Says Mary Beth Seader, vice president of the National Council for Adoption: "People don't trust the permanency of American adoption anymore...
Daniel and Cara married last April. With help from a Des Moines-based antiadoption group called Concerned United Birth Parents, they fought the DeBoers all the way to the Iowa Supreme Court, which ruled 8 to 1 last September in favor of the Schmidts' right to custody. The DeBoers then turned to Michigan courts and won a round last February when a lower court ruled that Jessica's best interests would be served if the child remained in Ann Arbor. That ruling was unanimously overturned last week by the appeals court, which sidestepped the merits of the case by denying...