This story is shocking, and shameful, and as a parent, breaks my heart.
Those people shouldn't be allowed to "return" the child, just because they want to. It's not a shirt from H&M or Giordano. It's a child who's been living with them for years, who for some weird reason doesn't speak their language, isn't on their passport, doesn't eat the same food as them.
That poor child is going to have separation/abandonment anxieties all it's life. And what about the other children. How do they feel about losing their sibling? Will they be living in the fear of being sent away, if they don't finish their green beans? Last week was the dutch christmas, Saint Nicholas, great timing!
People like that make it harder for other foreigners to adopt. As if it's not hard enought!
I hope the Dutch government feels embarassed enough by what this diplomat has done to fire him or send him to some horrible post, on a remote island where cannibalism is still practiced or something like that.
This story is disgusting.