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 Hosts’ selections this week:

Full-Blown GADS: This is the gamer-version of Generalized Adoption Derangement Syndrome.

This article about the Portal 2 video game is titled Portal 2’s Adoption Jokes Anger Adoptive Parent The jokes are “literally, the worst thing I could possibly have heard.”

The fictional character in the video game yells, “Alright fatty. Adopted fatty. Fatty, fatty no parents,” which GLaDOS follows up on by whispering to the player, “For the record, you are adopted, and that’s terrible, but just stick with me.”

His daughter is from China, so I think with the recent news of trafficking, perhaps that might literally be the worst thing he could have heard.

If you need a laugh, take a look at the over 190+ comments on this article from gamers to adoptees alike. (warning: profanity)

$100K Upfront for Two Domestic Adoptions

This CNN Hero story was supposed to promote the foundation that the AP has started to help with adoption costs, but we couldn’t get over what she says in the first few lines…that she paid over $100,000 upfront for her two childrens’ adoptions!

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2011/05/19/cnnheroes.fawcett.cnn