Tuesday Term: Adopoliploitation
This column is the discussion of a term used for child welfare or adoption. We made this one up to represent what we have been seeing in the media.
Adopoliploitation (ado-poli-ploitation)-“Ado” stands for adoption and foster care; “poli” stands for politics; and “ploitation” stands for exploitation.
This is when a political candidate chooses to place his or her adopted children (minor or adult) or foster children (current or previous) into their political campaign.
Example 1: This article [International Business Times 6/22/11] Is Huntsman selling his adoptees for the GOP ticket? talks about a political video called Four Days .
Advice
Even if your campaign platform is about adoption legislation, stick to the points of the legislation. We know that setting your adopted or foster kids as props scores more “heart points” for you than the ol’ kissing the baby in the greeting line of yore, but it is time to stop this exploitation.
Whatever message that politicians are trying to send, please stop holding out your kids as some “reason” to elect you. Continuous association of yourself with the adoption industry and foster care system will just make us ask questions about how ethical your process was, if you had any favoritism and your overall involvement with adoption industry players. Don’t even try to cry “privacy” when you keep putting your kids out there.
Just Keep the Adoptive and Foster Kids Out of It…and Your Biological Kids Too!
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