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:

Celebrities Twisting the Facts

In Pitt Fears Daughter Would Have Died Without Adoption, “Brad Pitt is convinced his eldest daughter with Angelina Jolie would certainly have died if she had not been adopted from Africa by the Hollywood couple.

I guess that he forgot that her birthmother from Awassa-the region that is being highly scrutinized right now (and who supposedly died of AIDS according to WHFC agency) is really alive . Maybe family preservation and some counseling would have helped? It was never allowed as an option.

More Kooky Adoption Merchandise

Followed a car with “Adopt Africa” on the bumper sticker the other day. Wow! Who is offering the whole continent for adoption?….(waiting for many agency guesses)… Child collectors must be going more insane than usual!

And then I found these:

Words MOM with black baby as the O http://www.zazzle.com/mom_to_african_baby_bumper_sticker-128306436504037947

Adoption is not for wimps with Africa continent in background. also in button form! http://www.cafepress.com/+adoption_is_not_for_wimps_sticker_oval,476451951

Defending African orphans http://www.cafepress.com/+defending_africa_orphans_sticker_oval,458894954

6 million orphans minus one http://www.cafepress.com/+green_sticker_rectangle,473464360

Why Ethiopia? Because that is where my children are http://www.cafepress.com/+why_ethiopia_my_children_are_sticker_oval,418124357  and there are variations of it

Adopted One (on Africa silhouette) http://www.cafepress.com/+adopted_one_africa_sticker_oval,355916846

48 pack of  lapel stickers?? of Ethiopian Angel with love in English and Amharic http://www.cafepress.com/+ethiopian_angel_gift_items_3_lapel_sticker_48_p,368512105

Orphan Doll Journal

Another one that MUST have started just to get their name on our blog. http://orphandoll.com/

Adopting Child as Companion for Special Needs Child

From an article   that we cited in the Ecuador/Joshua Tree Adoptions COA Action Alert :

(1) Calls the Hague hold “minor”
(2) On adopting a child with DS through Reece’s Rainbow: “”The couple has a daughter, Addie, who also has Down Syndrome. Erin said they wanted a companion”
(3)Potential adoptee is 9 months older than the biological child
(4) “There is no reason this little girl (sister) can’t be here and be loved,” Erin said.”
(5) From their blog    “According to our agency, a minor complaint was filed in 201 [sic] that caused the accreditation agency to look closed at all policies, procedures, and programs that Joshua Tree offers. Joshua Tree got the necessary documents to them and the complaint was resolved. However, since it cause the accreditation people to look very closely at all of Joshua Tree’s policies and procedures, they have been asked to make some very specific changes to these policies and procedures, and then submit that to the accreditation agency…so until these new policies and procedures are approved and in place….everything is on hold….sigh….”
(6) From the blog “We are USCIS approved and are to be getting our “official referral” of Sister on Sept. 15th. ”
(7) From the blog “”Flapjack Fundraisers”