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)Added Fees in China Adoption
This public Adoptive Families Circle Post discusses added fees and preadoption visit. The post and the comments that follow http://www.adoptivefamiliescircle.com/groups/topic/Long_post_re_American_run_medical_facility/
Is this the way any adoption, let alone a Hague adoption ,should be implemented?
(2)Hattip to a post about an offensive Korean Adoption ornament
Great to see someone else blogging about this topic! See http://koreangendercafe.blogspot.com/2012/10/korea-us-international-adoption.html
Now you know what NOT to get me this Christmas! 
(3) Georgia How Could You? Regional CPS Director
See this post. CPS sunk to a new low this week when the CPS director answered a call about HER abuse.
Then she had the audacity to claim that she didn’t beat her child with a broom 
, but a STUDDED BELT.
(4)Adoption as the only solution for disabled orphans
Choosing to support adoptive families, not the local biological ones. They send the kids to the US first to be hosted even though the PAPs do not have the money to adopt and then ask others to pay.http://www.eliproject.org/ I grow tired 
of the marketing of these children in this manner. Their 2 resources are Connected Child-a decent read and Fields of the Fatherless. Sigh.
Foster parents so desperate to adopt that they’re thrilled that the biomom of one of their foster kids is pregnant again and convinced it is God’s will for them to adopt said baby:
“Sigh…her and birth dad are ” in love and we will be together forever and ever!” It makes me sad how she thinks that this toxic violent relationship with a drug using dude is worth staying for 🙁 This will be their 3rd child together. So far the other 2 are not with them. I am wondering how long this one will be with them??? I have contacted Michael’s old GAL and she is talking to her supervisor to see if there is anything that needs to be done with this information (I think this is the reason “A” hasn’t told me she is pregnant sooner). There is not an open CPS case so I am sure that they will be able to keep the baby, but I definitely think that with both their histories and involvement with CPS that they should be followed. They got pregnant soon before the finalization of Michael’s adoption…..not by accident I am sure.
God has allowed this to happen for His purpose! I have to keep telling myself this!!! I am praying SO HARD for this little one because I have read the files, I know what has gone on in this family and it breaks my heart that another child would have to endure that kind of life. All the boys (she’s had 3..one was a miscarriage) have “M” names. Wonder what this one will be??? Michael’s bio-sister looks *exactly* like him so I am curious to see the baby. I bet it will give me a really good idea of what Michael looked like as a small infant :)”
http://ourfostercarejourney.blogspot.ca/2012/09/surprise.html?m=0