Indonesian adoption agencies and their returns policies.

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Irish couple adopt Indonesian orphan, give him back when wife gets pregnant.

I can't really say anything other than a few glibly cruel one liners about this because I'm concentrating on not trying kill everyone.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 15 April 2005 08:32 (twenty years ago)

The Dowes have one other daughter, Tata.

If they have another, they should call her Byeee.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 15 April 2005 09:43 (twenty years ago)

Lala and Tata... What next?

― nathalie doing a soft foot shuffle (stevie nixed), Friday, 15 April 2005 09:58 (twenty years ago)

Well, at least they didn't poison him with salt.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 15 April 2005 10:07 (twenty years ago)

It's funny, I was thinking "If you did this with your own baby, they'd send you to prison", only then I remembered that that's where babies for adoption come from.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 15 April 2005 11:04 (twenty years ago)

I understand there are still a few other sources for them. Children raised by wolves, bizarre double-decapitations, that sort of thing.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 15 April 2005 11:20 (twenty years ago)

Also IT WAS THEIR OWN BABY!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 15 April 2005 11:20 (twenty years ago)

Papa, Mama, Lala, Tata, ?a?a

― who, Friday, 15 April 2005 11:56 (twenty years ago)

"Mark 'em up, sell 'em on."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 15 April 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

They'd had him since he was 2 months old - how could you just throw a child away after two years? I just don't understand people sometimes. I 'like' the way the father said "it just wasn't working out" like he was giving his baby the sack.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 15 April 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

this is pretty strong evidence that the baby SHOULD be parented by someone else.

but good christ this is depressing.

― g e o f f (gcannon), Friday, 15 April 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

Two years later, when he was left at the orphanage, he spoke and understood only English.

god it's like an ondaatje novel or something.

― g e o f f (gcannon), Friday, 15 April 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

Holy shit... what bothers me is that the father's quote [“Over time we came to a painful realisation that the adoption wasn’t working out, an extremely difficult and painful realisation to make. It wasn’t something that we felt in Tristan’s best interests to remain with us" ] is so flagrantly idiotic. If a child (this is a two year old) is not "working out" the difficulty is not to do with the child, it's to do with the parents. Adoption or no-adoption. Fuck that man, and may he die.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 15 April 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

Papa, Mama, Lala, Tata

Is this the new Teletubby family?

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 15 April 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

i think this handily explains the recent tsunami, volcano, etc.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 15 April 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

Makes you wonder what Ireland's got in store.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 15 April 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

These people are bastards. I have nothing else to say.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 15 April 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

what bothers me is that the father's quote [“Over time we came to a painful realisation that the adoption wasn’t working out, an extremely difficult and painful realisation to make. It wasn’t something that we felt in Tristan’s best interests to remain with us" ] is so flagrantly idiotic.

if he had said "I came to the painful realisation that I am a cockfarmer and unfit to parent children" then he would at least be telling the truth.

by the way, I really regret my comment upthread, as I understand that real people who make the painful decision to give up their children for adoption don't do it for the kind of capricious reasons that these fuckers did.

I think they are currently Ireland's most hated people... it'll be interesting to see how long it takes the Evening Herald or Daily Star to find them.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 15 April 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

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