[blparent] Update on my daughter Ashlee

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

Please, please, take this off list for the sake of the mother's feelings, 
and that goes for everybody.  Have some compassion.  I'm sure Jess is 
utterly heartbroken now, and she shouldn't have to be further hurt by others 
arguing over the wrenching decision she's already made.  We don't know her 
situation.  She probably just posted this because she'd mentioned before 
that she was trying to get her daughter back, so she wanted to let us know 
how the story ended.  Please don't add to her hell by getting into a dispute 
about the rights and wrongs of her very personal circumstances.

Jo Elizabeth

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may 
kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at 
evening.--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
-----Original Message----- 
From: Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC)
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 11:32 AM
To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [blparent] Update on my daughter Ashlee

I'm curious about this viewpoint. Do you feel this way in cases of 
kidnapping? You may and that's fine.
Do you feel that a child should not be reunited with a parent who wasn't 
around when the child was little, because after all the child won't remember 
the parent and it would upset the child to have this new person around?
What about that blind couple that had their baby taken from them? Should 
they have not gotten their child back because the baby was safe with another 
set of adults?
You can disagree with me, I am curious to see how far your logic extends

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Bernadetta
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 12:50 PM
To: blparent at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [blparent] Update on my daughter Ashlee

Jess,
i'm so sorry you had to do that. However, you should be assured that
you've made a choice that's in the best interest of the child. Assuming
she's been with that family from the start, she already knows them as
her own family. I am one who thinks that, rightful biological parents
or not,  a child feels traumatized if he or she has to uproot and move
to a different home, a different family, etc. after being somewhere
forever.  She knows those people as mommy and daddy, and as tough as it
must be  to surrender your parental rights, it might have hurt her more
at this point to be taken away from her environment which she's known
for her entire life.
I wish you the best of luck in everything. I can't even begin to
imagine what it must be like to give up one's child like that...But
good luck with everything, and we're all here for you, I'm sure.

Bernadetta

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