The Birch Show.

Apparently the movie you guys were trying to remember was called Orphan.

Okay. That's the first thing we need to know. Jenny, good morning. You are on the Birch show. Hi. Hey. Hi. I wanted to say that I actually know a family that adopted a little girl and had to return her. The story is it was a mom and a dad and they had two sons and they really wanted a little girl. So they decided to adopt, and it was actually a U.S. girl, but the girl started wreaking havoc in the home, and she was making lots of sexual advances towards the husband, so they ended up having to return her because she just created total chaos in the house. I know we're talking about human beings, but using the words they had to return her. Sounds so like pet smart. Piece of clothing. Like I got a puppy at pet smart. Do you save your receipt? I think it's a different thing if you're fostering a teenager or you're taking in a like a grown-up kid. I think that's a different scenario. How old was a child? You presented it. it seemed like, here's your infant, and then like, oh, sorry, don't want it. Got to return it. Right. I think the little girl was around eight years old, give her take a year or so. See, then why not take it to a doctor or a specialist that your child now, why not get it fixed? I think I've actually tried that for several months, and I think it was like a six-month, six to eight-month period that they had a little girl before they returned her. That must have been a painful decision. The argument, though, that Burt makes is a very valid one. Like, if you order one thing and are delivered something else just because it's a human. You can't order behavior. I mean, that just happens in the situation.

I think this is a whole commentary on the foster care system, too, because I think that, you know, an infant, yeah, an infant, I think, is different because an infant you bring into your home and then, you know, anything that's going on with that infant is your responsibility like the nature nurture thing but

I think that when you get older and older I think it's really sad because I've known people in my

life that have been through the foster care system and it is hell so I think that there I think

there's a reason that some of these kids have evolved into having behavioral problems because they haven't had a great shot at life

in the foster care system. Well, if there are pre-existing conditions that I don't know,

that they don't tell you about beforehand, and then the child arrives, especially if they're

true medical and they've been diagnosed, child arrives, and you aren't told about that, I think you have a pretty good, I mean, it's going to be a painful decision to make. But if you weren't told, then you've got to take a good, hard look at your family and good hard look at yourself and say, I don't know that we can handle this. But can't you look at it from a spiritual perspective, too? I mean, that would be part of the struggle.

It's like, you know, was this part of the plan?

Like, you know, is our family supposed to raise this child?

You know, did God bring this child to us?

Even though this is not what we expected, you know, we were going to Spain, but we ended up in Holland.

Right?

Right.

You could also look at, I mean, taking the human aspect out of it, which is tough. That's not possible. That's not what you're arguing about. You're not talking about lawnmowers. You get a defective lawnmower, yes, take it back to Lowe's. If you have two children in your family and you bring a dog into the house.

And that dog bites both of your children and attacks every visitor. It's different than a kid. It comes over. It's a human being. So if you bring a child into your house and the child bites both of your other kids and attacks people when they come over to the house. It is different. It's different. It's different. It's totally different. Why? Because you're contributing, I mean, you have an opportunity.

Maybe that same scenario. Sure, it's different. It's completely different. It's totally different. Why? Because you're contributing, I mean, you have an opportunity.

Maybe that same scenario has played.

Maybe that opportunity has played out in this child's life up to this point to make them that way.

So now here you are, again, giving up a child, causing more, what's the word I'm looking for? Dam damage and more just abandonment issues again when you could be the one to turn the child around Tracy producer Tracy here has some very strong opinions about this I can't believe this is even a debate I mean you don't you signed up for this when you adopt a child you don't get a choice like I don't get to send Ella back with a post-it because she doesn't sleep through the night.

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