A mummy blogger has been met with huge backlash after revealing she’s “rehoming” her adopted Chinese son because he has “special needs” in a teary video.
Myka Stauffer told her 700,000 YouTube subscribers recently that her son Huxley, now four, had found a new “forever home” after she and husband James struggled to care for him.
The pair said they discovered he had “medical needs” they weren’t aware of when they brought him home from China following a lengthy international adoption process in 2017.
But Stauffer’s followers haven’t been understanding of their decision, accusing her of using Huxley solely to gain a bigger following and earn more money on her YouTube channel.
Stauffer and her husband, James, posted the YouTube video titled “An update to our family” to their channel Tuesday and it quickly caused outrage online.
James explains in the video that they came to the brutal decision after discovering “there were a lot more special needs that we were not aware of.”
The tearful mum added, “Do I feel like a failure as a mum? 500 per cent.”
Many agreed with Stauffer, leaving streams of comments on her video – that has been viewed over 800,000 times since it was posted - stating: “I’m sorry but you did fail as a mum.”
Others said that while the couple were crying in the video, it was Huxley that had suffered the real loss.
“So incredibly heart broken for little Huxley,” one said.
“I feel so sad, he will feel so painful that his family will leave him,” another wrote.
“Wow this is so sad. That poor little guy,” someone else agreed.
Twitter critics were harsher, declaring the decision “awful” for both Huxley and the pair’s four other children: Kova, Jaka, Radley and Onyx.
“@MykaStauffer adopted an autistic child from China and after years of having him, she gave him up for adoption because he had ‘bad behaviour’ after using him for $$$ on her YouTube channel,” wrote one user.
“What Myka Stauffer and her husband did is awful. You don’t just give a child back... “ one tweeted.
“She adopted a child for views and then got rid of him and treated him like a brand deal,” another said.
There are even calls to have the family’s sponsors pulled, with angry internet justice seekers calling to #cancelstauffers.
Stauffer, who also boasts 162,000 followers on Instagram, has garnered partnerships with big-name companies like Big Lots, TJ Maxx and Danimals yoghurt.
She first introduced her China-born son to her followers two and a half years ago.
In September 2019 Stauffer told Parade they were told by the adoption agency that Huxley had a brain tumour and “brain damage”.
It was only when he arrived in the United States, they learned Huxley had suffered a stroke in utero, had autism and a sensory processing disorder.
In the new video about deciding to “rehome” Huxley, Stauffer said the tot had autism and brain damage.
“Numerous medical professionals have felt that he needed a different fit. He needed more,” Stauffer says while fighting back tears in the video filmed in the couple’s bed.
She added that an adoption agency had helped place Huxley with his “forever family.”
“He’s thriving, he’s doing really well, and his new mummy has medical, professional training,” she adds.
The couple begged for “privacy” in the seven-minute video in which they detailed consulting “medical professionals and agencies” to come to their heart-wrenching decision.
“I didn’t adopt a little boy to share these things publicly … 99, 95 per cent of the struggles we have never publicly aired,” she says.
Two months ago, she alluded to the troubles in a cryptic post.
“Last month was the hardest month I have ever had as a mamma,” she wrote in a March 28 post, using hashtags #adoptiontrauma and #reactiveattachmentdisorder, referencing a condition in which children have trouble forming emotional bonds with their caretakers.
Parts of this article originally appeared on NY Post and has been republished with permission
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2020-05-28 21:45:00Z
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