FacePalm Friday

This is where your hosts will list their top picks for this week’s FacePalm moment—something they learned or read about this week that caused the FacePalm to happen (you know, the expression of embarrassment, frustration, disbelief, disgust or mixed humor as depicted in our Rally FacePalm smiley).

We invite you to add your FacePalm of the week to our comments. Go ahead and add a link, tell a personal story, or share something that triggered the FacePalm on the subject of child welfare or adoption.

Your Host’s selections:

Help Us Have a Baby http://tinyurl.com/5tfru24

Often, when people try to have babies and can’t, they’re told, “Oh, you can just adopt.” (Believe us, we’ll get to that pathetic sentiment in the near future). But in the case of this couple, we would like to say, “Oh, please don’t EVER adopt, because you think you’re so entitled to have a baby that you are trying to sucker complete strangers into helping you out! What a great way to start a family – NOT!

Canton Woman Adoption Raffle Fraud “Lynette Karen Shedden-Chaapel, 41, of Canton, was charged Tuesday with theft by deception, a felony of the third degree.” She befriended a prospective adoptive family and sold raffle tickets for an adoption fundraiser on their behalf, but instead took the money. At least “1,600 tickets were sold for $10 each.”

Due diligence in fundraising is yet another pre-adoption preparation that prospective parents need.

http://thedailyreview.com/news/canton-woman-charged-in-raffle-fraud-1.1095679
[The Daily Review 1/26/11 by Eric Hrin]

Using Orphans to Market Yourselves Wait until the photos rotate to the black orphan holding the 147 sign, to falsely promote the 147 million children needing a foreign adoptive home.

http://childrenshouseinternational.com/bios-of-waiting-children/