Biological Mom Continues Fight To Regain Twins From Adoption
Allison Quets took off from North Carolina with her twins and got caught in Canada. Was this a divorce gone bad? No, an adoption gone bad. I feel for this biological mom. It’s alleged that Quets verbally revoked the relinquishment of her twins within twelve hours and in writing within forty-eight hours, yet she’s still fighting for them 17 months later.
After being a foster mom for several years, I know how easy it is to get attached to children, even when they aren’t yours. I know people can decide they are a “better” parent than another. We see that in divorces and child custody cases all the time. I believe unless there’s more to this story that we haven’t heard, as much as the adopting couple love those kids, they should have relinquished them to their mother as soon as she said she wanted them back.
From the Saturday Ottawa Citizen:
Allison Quets, the American woman accused of kidnapping her biological children and bringing them to Canada broke her silence Saturday afternoon in an exclusive interview with Citizen reporter Andrew Thomson.
Mom speaks out on video HERE.
From the Sunday Ottawa Citizen:
Ms. Quets moved to Florida in 1985, taking a job near St. Petersburg with General Electric. She gave premature birth to Holly and Tyler in Orlando, where she was working for Lockheed-Martin. The twins had been conceived through in-vitro fertilization.
The pregnancy was nearly fatal, Ms. Quets said yesterday. She battled hyperemesis, a condition that causes excessive nausea, vomiting and malnourishment. It can lead to depression, ruptured organs, and even miscarriage.
“Every time I threw up blood I was afraid I was going to die,” she said. “I was not healthy.”
Ms. Quets also claims to have faced post-partum depression after giving birth and offering the twins for adoption. Since then, she’s poured her life savings of about $400,000 U.S. into the custody dispute with the Needhams, and used her academic background to study family law.
Ms. Quets, was found in Ottawa last month with 17-month-old twins Holly and Tyler. She’s accused of failing to return the twins to their adoptive parents in Durham, North Carolina, after a weekend visit.
She faces federal and state kidnapping charges in North Carolina and will be returned to the United States tomorrow.
Watch a home video of mom and twins HERE.
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