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:

(1) One World agency receives “Best of Atlanta” award

Their programs: “The adoption agency is currently offering several adoption programs all over the world, including these countries: Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Democratic Republic Of Congo, Haiti, Kenya, Latvia, Marshall Islands Ukraine, and US Domestic adoption programs. ”

(2) Puff piece on the Illinois megafamily who doesn’t qualify to adopt
http://www.worldmag.com/articles/19074

Not worth paying the $5 to read the article, we can tell where it is headed with this blurb…

“‘What heaven looks like’…”
They were already convinced to adopt a special-needs child, but then Carolyn learned about three Ethiopian children: a healthy youngster, an HIV-positive middle child, and a teen. She spoke with Kiel, a painter already supporting their seven children. He responded emphatically: “Woman, have you lost your mind?”

She yielded after a day’s argument, but he couldn’t shake the thought. He encountered constant reminders for two weeks and finally, as he prayed on the drive home from work, he heard a song, This Christmas, with the phrase “father to the fatherless.” At home he told his wife, “I think those are our kids.”

(3)Canadian AP thinks Haiti is no longer vulnerable to child trafficking

http://www.leaderpost.com/news/Children+doing+well+Regina/6000666/story.html

“The Poiriers are also frustrated about the continued existence of roadblocks in Canada put in place after the earthquake that affect would-be adoptive parents of Haitian orphans. While a moratorium was put in place to protect against human trafficking, Lisa believes it’s no longer needed since Haiti has since strengthened its measures to protect children.”

PAPs can’t stop the !

(4) Another fundraising t-shirt

http://solomonshirts.blogspot.com/

“Pure Religion: Care for the Fatherless & Afflicted”  but we can’t call them saviors!

(5) Haiti orphans “Unicef’d”

http://www.rageagainsttheminivan.com/2012/01/haitian-orphans-two-years-later-still.html

The whole thing is ridiculous, but this one in particular “It’s also really concerning to me that Arielle Jeanty is using the “we need to keep these children to become tomorrow’s leaders” rhetoric. While I completely agree that adoption should be a last resort, I believe that there are thousands of children in Haiti who are in that “last resort” place. To relegate them to a live in an orphanage on some notion that they will later lead the country is so cruel. There are plenty of children living in families in Haiti who will hopefully receive the love and encouragement from a parent that will give them the confidence to be Haiti’s next leaders.” to me says “can’t stop the  !”

Haiti has a lot of problems and they are just for the first time registering all the orphanages.You have to figure out who and where they are before declaring them in a stage of last resort! Contrast her post to ours

http://reformtalk.blogspot.com/2012/01/unicefs-haiti-report-two-years-after.html

(6) “Only Children Hear Me” book

This is a tale that mixes concepts of illness, multi-colored dogs’ feelings and living in a transracial adoption, adoption issues and abuse of AP by her dad with advice from a dog.
http://www2.turnto10.com/lifestyles/2012/jan/17/health-check-only-children-hear-me-ar-899449/

And you can go to her website and actually ask the “dog” some questions. I would bet that our readers have some good ones… http://www.onlychildrenhearme.com/index.shtml 

(7) Internet Sperm-seller guy…he’s back

TMI…now he shares that he is a virgin
http://www.koat.com/news/30240866/detail.html

(8) “All you need is love and a warrior’s heart to adopt that special child”

“These children have so much love to give. They are so unreserved in their love. One of my children has autism, but he is the most loving little boy”
and

“Whilst caring for David can be intense at times, his foster carer describes thim [sic] as being an absolute joy to look after” 

(9) Ethiopia PAP “teams up” with AGCI to sell “Six million minus one” bracelets for fundraising for $35K fee.

Family Raises Funds for Adoption

See also http://www.goinggreenredandyellow.blogspot.com/2011/06/beginning.html

“Our desire to adopt a child that is living in poverty has been one that God placed within our hearts many years ago.”

Hmmm…maybe they should adopt an orphan or abandoned child instead of one JUST living in poverty!

That was a long list this week!