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I think it would be best to just let the kid stay with the doctors IF it had been an honest mistake like those “Switched at birth” situations. However, if the birthmom’s version of things is true and they stole the kid from her, I have to side with the birthmom here.
It doesn’t matter if they’ve done a better job raising the kid than she would have.
It’s still her kid and unless she signed away her rights voluntarily then I think she deserves to have the final say on what happens to her child, no matter what anyone else might think is best for the kid…including the kid.
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The point isn’t about who could have raised the kid better, the point is, who is the kid emotionally bonded to?
By that logic, all adopted children are victims of the Stockholm Syndrome. From the child’s perspective, there is no difference between infant adoption and infant kidnapping, if it was a situation where the kid didn’t know about the circumstances in which she came to live with her birth parents. By definition, the person has to know they were kidnapped in order to suffer the Stockholm Syndrome. In fact, if anything, you have it reversed…taking her away from the only family she had ever known, and giving her back to the bio family would be more likely to cause Stockholm Syndrome than what she has experience with her adoptive family.