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I know that everyone gets tired of angry posts from me, but I gotta say it…
Nancy Grace is an idiot.
Here is an excerpt from a transcript of her show, where she’s talking about Allison Quets’ decision to surrender.
GRACE: And, you know, and when you think about it, to psychotherapist Dr. Leslie Austin, if you`re thinking about and willing to sign away your children, I think Florida has the right idea. Why do you want these parents to have a chance to reconsider, if that`s what you think of your children, you want to sign them away? Why should you get to come back a year later, like in Wisconsin, and take the kids away from the adoptive parents, parents that really want them?
Well, well, well. Here we are yet again, talking out of two sides of our mouths about birthparents. Are birthparents saints or sinners? Is the decision to place a noble, beautiful thing, made in the best interest of the child? Or is it a heartless, cruel decision made because you are an unfeeling tart who doesn’t want the little rugrat anyway? It’s obvious which side Nancy Grace comes down on. Back to the transcript:
LESLIE AUSTIN, PSYCHOTHERAPIST: Exactly. There are a lot of the reasons why you might want to put your kids up for an adoption, but hopefully you`d consider it very, very carefully before you sign the papers.
GRACE: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait…
AUSTIN: And you`ve got to put the kids first.
GRACE: I don`t think you`re hearing me, Leslie!
AUSTIN: Pardon me?
GRACE: This isn`t like returning your Cuisinart to Target.
AUSTIN: Exactly. Exactly.
GRACE: You don`t have a 90-day grace period. These are children.
AUSTIN: I`m agreeing with you. Once you sign…
GRACE: So why should there be a grace period at all?
AUSTIN: Once you sign the papers, there should not be a return period, as it were, in any way. I`m saying consider very carefully before you sign the papers so that, once you sign the papers, it`s final. And you need to be putting the benefit of the children first, as painful as it may be for you. If you sign up for adoption, let them go.
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH. I get so freaking frustrated. I can explain and explain until I get blue in the face, and no one listens. No one wants to believe that smart, capable people can mistakenly get sucked into going through with an unnecessary surrender. No one wants to admit that it could just as easily have happened to them. No one will open their brain long enough to see that there are cases where a child might have been better off in his or her original family. Instead, people prefer to remain comfortable in their ignorance, putting down birthparents, and mentally distancing themselves from us because they don’t want to admit how easily it could happen, or how complex the entire situation really is.
I am tired of people Not Getting It.
(rant to be continued)
Nancy Grace is really starting to bait on my nerves! She is so opinated and so agressive and half the time doesn’t have her facts straight!
Yeah, but a year later? Seriously.
Nancy Grace = moron with a microphone.
this is a VERY interesting book on Hyperemesis(super easy to read) ….allison is a friend of mine and so is the author of this book…six degrees of seperation and all that.
http://beyondmorningsickness.com/
it gave me a great deal of insight into how allison was so coerced.
JPDakota, the facts of the case are that it was NOT a year later when she changed her mind. It was 10 hours after signing papers.
Im going to go out on a limb here and say that I tried to change my mind 24 hours after I signed the papers. In Kansas it is a done deal when the birthmother signs. I have talked to other lawyers and they told me that when a birthparent feels pressured to sign or is pushed into signing papers that it is normal to experince something like this. So, I guess I understand how she could want to change her mind.