In re the Adoption of Anonymous

Complexities abound when a court is asked to determine those problems which arise in a contested adoption involving a child born out of wedlock. The courts have frequently been beset with the conflicting claims of the various persons interested. We must consider the rights of the natural mother with her inborn maternal instinct to nurture and protect her child. We have the persuasive claims of the foster parents who, relying on the mother’s consent to an adoption, have taken the child in infancy, improved its physical well-being, given it the best of love and care, and in return have received…