In a highly controversial and publicized custody battle, a birth mother revoked her legal surrender to a prominent New York adoption agency. After delivering the child to foster care, the mother changed her mind. The infant girl was already with adoptive parents in a loving home. The birth mother apologized to the court for any trouble her flip-flop caused. The court’s decision to return that baby began a legal struggle that traversed the New York then Florida courts and finnally the United States Supreme Court. Jean DeMartino, Lenore’s adoptive mother, relates heartaches and emotional upheavals a family endures when judges overlook “the best interest of the child.”
