FacePalm Friday

Welcome to this week’s edition of 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, shock, 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:

Adoption Mobile App from Unlicensed Facilitator

Yes, Lifetime Adoption, the facilitator out of California that likes to give college scholarships to women who place their kids, has a new Mobile App called Open Adoption .

It claims to bring “adoption education and pregnancy options directly to mobile devices.” But it really is a way to look at “over 150 families waiting to adopt. It enables users to learn about and explore their adoption options, search for and review families that are ready to adopt, and utilize other adoption tools. Users will be pleased with the ease of use and excellent performance offered by the developer of the app.”

“It also provides a full download of the book, So I Was Thinking About Adoption, geared toward women who are considering adoption of an unplanned or unwanted pregnancy. The technology allows anybody to instantly and privately access adoption planning tools.”

The Blog That Must Have Been Written for our FacePalm Column

This blog takes the cake for the largest number of unethical promotions in the smallest amount of space. This week’s column discusses the  five surprises about adoption:” You can afford to adopt, you will love your children, your children will attach to you, your children will be okay, race doesn’t matter.”

It also has columns about how to find international surrogate with the special new choice of Guatemala and they advertise for Adoption by Shepherd’s Care , the agency that is under investigation by the Florida licensing authority. Lastly, if you click on the “Chinese” tab, you will find a recommendation about how international photolisting is the best way to find your referral.”

The 9/11 Forever Family

Haven’t we seen enough “comparisons”? This was not a story to be told on the 10-year anniversary. 

“Waiting nine months for a biological child feels like a long time, but when you’re an adoptive parent, that wait can be much longer. And if that interval is made even longer because of unforeseen circumstances, like those on Sept. 11, 2001, it becomes practically unbearable. ” Oh please.