US ‘left-behind parents’ seek help to get kids back
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WASHINGTON — Eli is a little boy packs a powerful hug, but hasn’t given one to his mother for more than a year.
Eli last year was taken to Turkey by his father, completely blindsiding his mother, Sara Edwards, one of America’s “left-behind” parents.
On the eve of US National Missing Children’s Day, which the United States marked Wednesday, Edwards testified before US lawmakers, telling them in an airless room of her almost hopeless quest to get Eli back.
“Eli gives the most amazing bear hugs but I have not held him since March 4 last year when my husband took him to Turkey,” Edwards told a hearing of the House Subcommittee on on Africa, Global Health and Human Rights.
“Every day I wonder if he is thinking about me and missing his mother the same way I am thinking about him and missing him,” she said, repeatedly interrupting her testimony to quell tears..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110526com7.html
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