On its face, the story of Sean Goldman seems sand for all the people involved. The father who has been fighting for his son, and the "adoptive" family that has been raising the boy for the last five years, who endured the loss of a wife/daughter.
Even taking into account that the mother was duplicitous, and that the adoptive family kept a child hostage from his father, it still would seem sad for them to lose a child they purported to love for the last five years.
Until we see their final grandstanding act.
Parading a scared and confused nine year old boy through the streets, and throngs of reporters and onlookers, is tantamount to abuse of the worst nature.
So the saga of Sean Goldman ultimately unfolds with the poor put upon Brazilian family finally being forced to return the kidnapped child. Without getting into a long philosophical discussion as to the situation, I would just say that the final act of abuse shows the true colors of the family in Brazil. If they truly loved the boy, they would never have subjected him to the torture of the public spectacle he was forced to endure.
So as they say, the proof is in the pudding, and in this case, the pudding is rancid.
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I agree with you, EXCEPT, you cannot discount the power of the advisors, and I say this not too offend you, but because that's who calls the shots, the lawyers.
So they could stand up and say no, but it can't be easy when your friends and neighbors and close inner circle whip things into a frenzy.
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