Can adoptive parents reverse adoption

[mz_smyth]

I Am Not The Parent In This Case, Just A Witness...
This Adoptive Mother Has Taken In Over 250 Foster Children And Adopted 5. She Is A Wonderful Woman,but She Is Getting Older And Her Health Is Getting Bad And One Of Her Children Is Completley Unruly. The Child Has Falsely Accused Her Of Abuse Just To Get Out Of Chores And Go To A Child Advocate Center To Play Games. Also, The Child Devised A Scheme To Rob Elderly People On His Paper Route. He Has Since Been On Probation And Gotten Violated After His Probation Officer Gave Him More Than A Dozen Chances. He Constantly Steals From Her Even After She Put A Lock On Her Door. A Couple Wks Ago He Ran Away. These Are Just The Mistakes He Has Made In The Past 6 Months. It's Been Years And She Just Can't Take Anymore She Adopted Him In Mich And Now Lives In Indiana, Can She Reverse This Adoption?

[Crick]

Once the adoption is finalized, it cannot be reversed. There are other options she can consider though in order to help her son. For example, there are residential treatment centers that she can place him into for treatment or she can call the probation officer and police to have him arrested for stealing or other crimes that he is committing.

If he has run away, she needs to make sure she has reported that to the police so that they can be on the look out for him etc. Plus, if she hasn't reported it, that can place her in legal trouble.

I'm sorry she's had such a rough time, but reversing an adoption is not an action she can take. Adoption is final, just as a birth and they don't allow parents to just say "you aren't my child anymore and you need to go into foster care". If she really wants to relinquish her parental rights, then that action can cause her other children to be removed from the home.

I realize it's very frustrating for her to have a child that behaves this way, and there is help out there. I would have her ask the Probation officer for some referrals to juvenile treatment centers and things like that.