A couple says the infant they adopted from an Indiana birthmother in 2006 displays severe neurological deficits. They’re suing their lawyers for $5 million, saying more should have been done to warn them. [Gothamist, New York Post]
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Looks like that “failure to warn” concept that attorneys keep pushing is now coming back to bite them in the ass.
Jeeze! Do babies now come with warranties? How about instruction manuals? I feel I reproduced too soon…
As an adoptive mother, stories like this really wrench my gut. You sign up to be a parent, you sign up for the good, bad, ugly, horrifying, amazing, sickness, health, *whatever,* however you signed up to be a parent, adoption or biology.
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