FacePalm Friday

Welcome to this week’s edition of FacePalm Friday.

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:

DC Entitlement March AKA Both Ends Burning Step Forward for Orphans March

This is the event next Friday where all the hopeful adoptive parents who have potential matches with children with major paperwork issues want worldwide support for their “cause.”

It is hard to say which is more of a facepalm–the march itself , that Gladney, Children of All Nations, Buckner and the NCFA are sponsoring it (Hmm…it seems like SOME agencies are missing….) or the merchandising that goes with it. Of course there had to be a necklace (of a baby carriage). I guess it is better than their candle shirts.

NCFA Agency Accepts $ and Applications for Closed Adoption Program

Another toss-up for which is the bigger facepalm. The agency AWAA accepting Rwanda applications or the PAP  who happily pays.

Lies About Koreans Not Domestically Adopting to Market Korea Program

Quote from today’s article includes an interview from Dillon clients and links to Dillon “Korea, like several Asian countries, does not adopt children from its own country, Bullock said.”

That would surprise people in Korea since there has been an increase in adoption in recent years, and in 2007, for the first time, domestic adoptions outnumbered international ones; in part because more Koreans are adopting, but also because the number of allowed adoptions by foreign parents has been reduced.

That marketing line might have worked years ago, but it isn’t the case now. In fact the DOS says “U.S. citizens who are considering adoption in the South Korea should be aware that the Korean government has expressed its intent to eliminate the need for intercountry adoption of Korean orphans by 2012 by encouraging domestic adoption of all Korean orphans. In support of this policy, the Korean government has established specific numerical quotas for international adoptions that are currently being reduced by 10 percent each year. Prospective adoptive parents should consult carefully with their adoption service provider in light of current Korean adoption processing times and South Korea’s intention to end inter-country adoptions by 2012.”

Why God?

As we pointed out in today’s Ethiopia post , paperwork issues abound in Ethiopia.  This blog asks Why God?

Crabbina thinks that the title may have been truncated. She suggests that it the entry title should be “WHY GOD do adoption agencies behave in such a way as to put vulnerable children in such predicaments?”

Rally, as a Roman Catholic like the blogger, adds that the free will of the corrupt orphanages and agencies have more to do with this than wondering where God is in all of this. The ‘why’ questions should be asked of the agency and the prayers need to go for the original families of these kids as well as the kids themselves. Completion of an adoption is not a guarantee that the will of God was fulfilled.