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) Twitter as  marketplace for adoption

See http://www.smeet.org/childless-couple-turns-to-twitter-to-spread-story-of-struggle-to-adopt-twitter/

Facebook, billboards, Craigslist….anything goes nowadays. tweet tweet

(2)Entitled Foster Parent wanted to plan funeral for foster child.

This is a sad accidental drowning, but the foster parent thinks she has the right to decide the funeral specifics over the father who still has parental rights. See here 

(3) Entitled PROSPECTIVE Foster Parents clamoring over severely abused child.

Another terrible story of a 10-year-old who was starved and locked in a closet. The media has turned this into a crave-fest for potential foster parents. See here

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(4) West Sands Ethiopia PAP article

See here for the “It takes a Village to adopt a child” article and no they do not mean the local Ethiopian village, but  meant  Huntersville, NC, where the “racial makeup of the town was 88.42% White Americans, 7.47% African American, 0.37% Native American, 1.50% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 1.06% from other races, and 1.13% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.88% of the population” and median salary is “$71,932, and the median income for a family was $80,821 .” West Sands is handling all the fundraising for the -themed auction.