We Adopted a 4-Year-Old Girl — But Just One Month Later, My Wife Insisted, ‘We Need to Return Her.’

My wife Claire and I had been trying for years to have a baby. When that didn’t happen, she suggested adoption—it felt like the right path. After months of waiting, we met Sophie, a bright-eyed four-year-old who had been in foster care since infancy. From the very beginning, she clung to us and called us…