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) Holt’s Save The Adoption Tax Credit Campaign
They even created at logo and are advertising on the homepage of their website to extend adoption tax credit http://www.holtinternational.org/ Scroll to the bottom left.
Gee, Holt will you lower your fees if it doesn’t go through We all know that adoption fees increased the day after the first credits were approved. The tax credit has ALWAYS been about adoption agencies being able to charge more money to their clients. 
(2) Jillian Michael’s Quickest Haiti Adoption Ever
She switched from DRC to Haiti in December and miraculously completes the adoption of a young girl in record time. As a bonus two for one, her partner gives birth to a son. Most agencies disallow pregnancies and adoptions simultaneously. Scathing comments on the lack of care of her daughter’s hair have also been making the rounds on tabloids.
(3) Adoption Agencies advertising Bulgaria grants on special needs forums
Lawsuit winnings translate into grants to influence more unprepared PAPs into adopting special needs children.
(4) Clueless PAPs and their followers
Under category #4, I’d propose adding this PAP’s explanation of why no matter how much $$$ you’ve extracted from strangers is never enough:
“Maybe but A LOT of families run into extra expenses on the trip that they have to raise money for when they are out of the country”
Because it is totally impossible to adequately estimate how much it will cost to spend, say, 3 weeks in Ukraine while adopting.
“all the money raised for a family is really the child’s money. That way if the family walks away from the child, then the child still has the money to be adopted by someone else. If a family has all their ducks in a row, then when they get a travel date from the Ukraine, Reece’s Rainbow releases their funds to the family so they can book flights and such. So that means that there are several expenses not covered by the Reece’s rainbow money because it is due before we ever get those monies”
Meaning PAPs like this one aren’t fundraising to cover the costs of the adoption itself, but post-placement reports, homestudies and courier fees. Because. Seeing to fundraise to cover the cost of a $10 apostilles is the hallmark of a responsible and well-prepared PAP!!
http://theresoneless.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/why-being-fully-funded-doesnt-mean.html