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作者：抢注G8 在 海归商务 发贴, 来自【海归网】 http://www.haiguinet.com
Anna Mae He is in the wrong place
By Robert A. Lackman
Shanghai Star. 2004-07-01
This article is a response to "Chinese girl, American heart" by Dwight Daniels, (May 20, 2004).
On May 12, 2004, Tennessee Judge Robert Childers terminated the parental rights of Chinese immigrants Jack and Casey He so that Jerry and Louise Baker could adopt the Hes' five-year-old daughter Anna Mae. Mr. Daniels says Anna Mae is in the right place with the Bakers. I disagree.
Shortly before Anna Mae's birth in early 1999, Mr. He's scholarship was cancelled due to temporary legal troubles, and the Hes found themselves with a sick baby, a weak mother, and a US$12,000 medical bill without income or health insurance. Mrs. He had risked her own life to save Anna Mae by refusing recommendations for premature delivery after experiencing severe bleeding. Desperate, the Hes agreed to accept temporary help from the Bakers arranged by a Christian agency. Mrs. He ultimately planned to return to China with her daughter, but the Bakers convinced her to extend their arrangement longer than 3 months, asking to receive "temporary custody" in order to provide Anna Mae with health insurance. During the hard times, the Hes gratefully accepted the Bakers' offer and thought they had made the right decision for their daughter by trusting the Bakers.
A few months after the Bakers gained temporary custody of Anna Mae, the Hes were getting back on their feet and beginning to ask their daughter back, but the Bakers declined their request, citing Mrs. Baker's pregnancy. After a few attempts, the Hes had no other choice but to file a petition with the Juvenile Court in April of 2000, hoping to regain custody of Anna Mae. Due to absence of legal counsel, the Hes did not succeed in the Juvenile Court. In the summer of 2002, the Hes proposed a "peace making" mediation in church and took the initiative by submitting a letter, suggesting a few peaceful ideas to solve their legal disputes, but the Bakers refused to make any concessions and insisted that the Hes give up their parental rights as a precondition.
Though the Hes spent four years fighting for Anna Mae's return, Judge Childers ruled they had abandoned her, citing a Tennessee law that defines abandonment as four months without contact and indicating a four-month window where the Hes were held at bay from their daughter as evidence of abandonment. He ignored the law's clarification that demands proof of willful abandonment. After two years of weekly visits, the Hes stopped visiting only when Mr. Baker called the police, who told the Hes not to return. They were intimidated into staying away. The Bakers proved no willful abandonment in court, as was their responsibility. During that four-month "abandonment", Mrs. He even filed a second petition in the Juvenile Court requesting Anna Mae's return. Yet Childers twisted Mrs. He's legal petition and used it as evidence to find her guilty of willful abandonment because she failed to mention visitation in her petition (see: www.parentalrightsandjustice.com). Further, Childers denied the fact that the Bakers often interfered with the Hes' visits of Anna Mae, as shown in Mrs. Bakers' own secret journal. Childers concluded that the Bakers never discouraged the Hes' visits, fully supporting the wealthy couple while suggesting that Anna Mae would be in danger if she returned to China, where the culture allegedly devalues girls. Equally significant, Childers never concluded that the Hes abused their children.
So, why do I disagree with Mr. Daniels? His suggestion that removing her from the Baker home would emotionally devastate her rewards the Bakers for their delaying tactics. First, a respected Memphis psychologist testified that unless abuse occurs, a child is always better off with her biological parents. (Mrs. Baker testified that Anna Mae had nightmares about her mother abandoning her.) Second, the law demands Anna Mae's parents be allowed to raise her. Third, both Jewish-Christian and Confucian morality consider a mother's love sacred. The Bakers do not speak or write Chinese and had no interpreter, making it impossible for them to have a private verbal agreement with Mrs. He, who only understands Chinese - and verbal agreements carry no legal weight. Mrs. He risked her life so Anna Mae could be safely born. When did Mrs. Baker ever risk her life for Anna Mae?
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作者：抢注G8 在 海归商务 发贴, 来自【海归网】 http://www.haiguinet.com
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