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Child Adoption Law in Ohio: Finality of Adoptions

Birth Parents Challenging Adoption

What Birth Parents Should Know about the Adoption Process
Ohio State Bar Association says a birth parent may also contest the adoption within six months after the final decree, if the birth parent can show that the adoption placement was based on "gross error or fraud." However, attempts to withdraw consent or to contest an adoption are almost never successful.

Rehoming

The Child Exchange : Inside America's Underground Market for Adopted Children
A 5-part investigative series from Reuters from 2013. It mentions the Interstate Compact for Placement of Children, but says it is rarely enforced in "secondary adoptions".
Kate Hudson Confirms YouTube Mom Who 'Rehomed' Adopted Son Was 'Terminated' by Fabletics
People Magazine 5/29/20
When Families Un-Adopt a Child : Between 1 and 5 percent of U.S. adoptions get legally dissolved each year. Some children are put up for “second-chance adoptions.”
Atlantic article by Jenn Morson 11/16/18
YouTube Couple Opens Up About Their Own Adoption Dissolution amid Myka Stauffer Controversy
People 6/3/20