Anita Tedaldi VIDEO Woman who Returned Adopted Child

Remember Anita Tedaldi? She wrote a New York Times piece that told only part of the story of her decision to relinquish her internationally adopted son?

Anita Tedaldi mother who returned adopted boy

Well, she told her story on the Today Show today.

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Also on the program, Adam Pertman of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, and he made three good points: 1) failure to bond is not just an adoption problem since it can happen with biological children, too; 2) adoption is not a “rental” where you just try it out; 3) sometimes it takes years to bond, and parents should stick it out for as long as they can.

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This time, Tedaldi did mention her previous column, We Can’t Trade In Our Children or Our Husbands, where she criticized another family for disrupting their adoption. She did not, however, mention that she had two more biological children in the 18 months that she was trying — and failing — to bond with her newly-adopted child.  Read more here

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