"I was just beginning to feel what a mother's love is like for her child, yet I had no understanding of how difficult it was going to be to leave my baby behind, " Babar said.
The Capobiancos think the issue should be about whether the ICWA law can improperly block adoption proceedings voluntarily initiated by a non-Indian mother who had sole custody of her child, due to what the adoptive parents say is the Indian father's failure to establish a legal parent-child relationship under state law.