He is three years-old and has the face of a cherub with luminous brown eyes and reddish-blonde hair. His name is Grayson and for all his innocence, he has been the centrepiece of three years of nasty litigation between the parents who adopted him at birth, Jason and Christy Vaughn of Indiana, and his natural father, Benjamin Wyrembek of Ohio.
Mr. Wyrembek had an intimate relationship with Grayson’s mother, who was a married woman. Their relationship ended, as did hers with her husband, but it wasn’t until a month after Grayson was born that Mr. Wyrembek knew he had a son who had been put up for adoption.
Moving swiftly, Mr. Wyrembek registered in Ohio’s Registry for putative fathers, had a DNA test, and brought a court application for custody of his son.
At this early stage, the Vaughn’s could have done the right thing: they could have returned month-old Grayson to his father. But they chose not to.
They decided to become embroiled in three years of litigation in their ruthless efforts to prevent Grayson from knowing or seeing his real father.
The litigation was, of course, in their best interests, but not Grayson’s. The longer the court battle went, the more time the Vaughn’s would have to integrate Grayson into their lives and shut him out of his father’s.
As well, high-intensity litigation might bring Grayson’s father to his knees financially and hopefully, fatally impair his ability to continue the fight.
This time, however, justice prevailed and this month Grayson was returned to his natural father after the United States Supreme Court refused to intervene with the order returning Grayson to his father.
Was the transition hard on this young boy? Yes, of course. Christy Vaughn described the scene as one where Grayson was kicking and screaming that he didn’t want to go.
What she still fails to understand is that she is the cause of Grayson’s distress. Sometimes real love means making tough decisions. It always means putting another person’s interests before your own.
Kent Nerburn’s “Letters to My Son” captures the essence of fatherhood:
“Until you have a son of your own… you will never know
the joy, the love… the sense of honour that makes a
man want to be more than he is…”
Lawdiva aka Georgialee Lang
Lawdiva's Blog 
What People fail to understand is there is not only the father and mother and child involved but also grandparents aunts and uncles too. It affects the whole family very much. And when it is happens to be in another country it can be very devastating to the whole family. Specially when the family is not realitly and won’t give the child up and when the Ministry won’t give up custody and will do anything to keep the child in the country illgeally, until the child has been there for 3 years and has no idea who his family is. And if you try to get the child it could be very devastating for that child and you have no choice but to leave that child there. And the Ministry will not let you have any contact with the child and your own Government will not help you and you have no money to get any help. Unless you want to be on TV and make a circus of the whole thing. I think that some people have there hearts in the wrong place and they should think with there brains not there hearts. If you love the child that happens to come to you in a strange way then you should try your best to get them back to there families not try any means to keep them, beacuse you feel that you are saving them from a bad situation. Social Workers are not always honest with you and they are not there to help the left behing parent especial in another country, we found that out the hard way. They will tell you what you want to here and then do the opposite of what they say to you. Trust is something you earn not something that is giving freely, especially by Social Workers.
And the Social Workers that I dealt with in Canada are not honest at all. They do not tell the truth, at least that was in my case. My grandson is a United States Citizen and in Canada illegally and we cannot get him back because the Ministry stalled and stalled for 3 years for a reason I still do not know why and he is with a family that is not reality to him at all. We lost are case because he was too “settled” but that was the plan all along with the Ministry and the family that he is with, becuase the Ministry felt we did not have enought money to take care of him. So they would not contact our DCF to send him home. So this whole thing is about money not family. So my grandson will never no is family because of money. Now that is something to think about!!!!!!!!