A married couple both addicted to drugs are unable to care for their infant daug

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A married couple both addicted to drugs are unable to care for their infant daughter. She is taken from them by court order and placed in a foster home. The years pass. She comes to regard her foster parents as her real parents. They love her as they would their own daughter. When the child is 9 years old, her natural parents, rehabilitated from drugs, begin court action to regain custody. The case is decided in their favor. The child is returned to them against her will. Does ethics support the law in this case? Is this moral?   

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No, in this case ethics does not support the law and this is immoral because when the child actually needed care and attention, both her parents were addicted to drug and substance abuse based on which she was placed in a foster home and as she grew 9 years old, she was regained by her natural parents which is very much legal and expected but in this time frame the kid actually considered her foster parents as her actual parents and the transfer was done against her will which I feel is unethical and immoral.

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