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Okay, so I'm furious with this movie.
IT's called Losing Isaiah and it's about how this black crack addicted woman, left her crying child in a trash can because she needed a hit.
She later got arrested and assumed her child was dead.
The baby was rescued and was adopted by a white social worker.
3 years later, the black woman is clean and finds out through her sponsor that her son is still alive and has been adopted.
She decides to find her son and get him back because she was never informed that there was an adoption or anything.
But to make matters worse, they make it into a racial issue, and so after the court proceeding, the black lady wins and then her son goes into shock.
Alright, here's how I feel about this:
Had Liam gotten adopted, no matter how I felt about things, I would never go after him 3 years later after he had been raised by other people.
I know it's hard. But it's not fair to the child. It's really not.
This movie just breaks my heart.
Yeah, it's a movie. But I'm sure this sort of thing has happened before. When I was going through the adoption process, I was told that I'd have so many months to decide to "take the baby back" should I change my mind.
I know that I'm the birth mother, but I really can't see how it would be fair to give back a three year old to a person who was drug addicted and threw him in the trash, literally. Upon realising how much I loved my child, I would want every happiness in the world, and that would be his "mother and father".
I'm going through the movie and things seem to be coming together, so I'm happy. It's just hard to watch.
I'm very lucky that I made the decisions that I did, and I would never want to be in this predicament. It's just a very interesting feling to genuinely see things from both perspectives.