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) National Enquirer Reveals Details of  Viola Davis’ Adopted Child’s Birthmother
http://www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/viola-davis-adoption-agony

Totally uncalled for. You should be ashamed of yourselves!

(2) People who think that Hague regulations don’t apply to them because they have God on their side.

Being FOR following Hague regulations does not equate to being AGAINST children!   Clue in people!

(3) Nightlight  Pats Themselves on Back  for their Snowflakes program as they Introduce “Orphan Galaxy” program

Luke…..I am your father….I guess that they can’t find any more orphans, so now they are trying to find homes for these kinds of sibling groups  or transgalaxials  or  maybe  and for the older child selection !

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/3/prweb9304393.htm

Details of Orphan Galaxy http://www.nightlight.org/orphan-galaxy/

“Orphan Galaxy

143,000,000 orphans – A problem too big for one person or organization, but the STARS in the Orphan Galaxy work together to make a difference. Supporting other organizations when possible; implementing new projects when necessary. Help every orphan until the last one has found a forever family.

Orphan Galaxy responds to the challenges of children without parents in many ways, including

Note how they are vague about how they are “supporting orphans”…in “many different ways”. I guess their marketing guy was sick when this went up. Note that the word “grant” is not longer used and now it is called a “scholarship” and of course they are going to bring tour groups of orphans to the US. We discussed this scheme a few weeks ago in our Visa post here.

(4) NCFA and Bethany being interviewed about increases in “open” adoptions.

Of all people to pick…and of course they don’t mention the percentage of adoptions that close after that initial openness.

New report details increase in ‘open’ adoptions
[New York Daily News 3/21/12 by Associated Press]

If you have never read Claudia Corrigan D’Arcy’s series of articles on NCFA from 2007, do so now

http://www.divinecaroline.com/22095/39669-national-council-adoption–mothers–money–
http://www.divinecaroline.com/22095/39676-national-council-adoption-mothers-money/5
http://www.divinecaroline.com/22095/39677-national-council-adoption–mothers–money–

(5) Baby on Board

I wasn’t a fan of that phrase way back when…it’s as cheesy as

Baby on Board: Adoptive Parents [KEZI 3/22/12 by Holly Menino]

1st Facepalm, Reason for adopting: “The Roth-Vinsons love to travel.

“For us we had traveled a lot internationally; and, when we decided to have kids, the idea of adoption came up,” said. ”

2nd FacePalm: “Once they started the process, they soon found themselves in heaps of paperwork.

“We called it being paper pregnant for a long time because your stacks of paper just seem to grow and grow sort of like each week of your pregnancy,” Cerise Roth-Vinson said.”

3rd FacePalm-not even sure of postplacement requirements “”We have post-adoption visits. I think we do two or three of those. They’re usually completed within a year and at that point you’re done,” Cerise Roth-Vinson said.”

4th and biggest FacePalm for white parents of children from Vietnam and Ethiopia: “As they get older, there will be questions.”We’ve chosen to let them know from the beginning that they are adopted and support them in any way that we can.,” Jeff Roth-Vinson said.”

Ya think that they may figure that out anyway?  This is the epitome of the AP thinking race doesn’t matter and that they are “color-blind.”