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)”God doesn’t see color”

‘God doesn’t see color, and I don’t either’

[LaGrange News 5/10/13 by Jennifer Shrader]

I will go out on a limb and say that the CHILD and the general public will notice…

““God has orchestrated this thing from the whole beginning,” said Firth’s mother, Marie Jackson.”  That is pretty sick to say since this child’s mother is dying of AIDS. I vehemently disagree that God orchestrated that. ” her mother dying of AIDS, her father already taken by the disease.” They sponsored her but nothing for the mother? No program for the dying mother and adopting out a child before the mother dies is good according to these people.

(2) Adoption Menopause Child Collector

Filling Up an Empty Nest

[New York Times 5/15/13 by Phyllis Korkki]
“Rebecca Gawboy, 60, who along with her husband, Jim, 76, is taking care of 12 adopted children ranging in age from 8 to 19.”

“The Gawboys were licensed for foster care in 1996; they adopted their first child, a foster child, in 2003, and in 2004 adopted a group of five siblings they had fostered. In 2008, they adopted a set of six siblings and stopped fostering at that time. ”

Yep the Adoption Industry is all for expanding who should adopt. It is good for business.

“Chuck Johnson, president and chief executive of the National Council for Adoption, an advocacy group, said that over the last 20 years, age barriers formerly set by adoption groups had steadily fallen, so more older adults now qualified to become parents. ”

“This reflects a recognition that “children do far better in families than in institutional or temporary care,” said Adam Pertman, executive director of the Donaldson Adoption Institute, a nonprofit research group, and author of “Adoption Nation.”

“These are competent, vetted people,” he added. Potential parents must go through a rigorous background check and participate in a home study process where a case worker observes the family before final approval occurs”

Living in Fantasy Land again!

(3) Adoption as answer to “Global Orphan Crisis”

Adoption: The Answer To The Global Orphan Crisis

[Lake Spokane Outpost 5/15/13 by Scott Wright]

Invasion of privacy,153 million orphans, James 1:27. ..this article has it all. And then the aging out stuff “Of those who do survive into their twenties, more than half of them will end up in organized crime, prostitution and drug use. Approximately one in ten of those children who are not adopted will commit suicide. Many of the adolescent girls will end up as victims of sex trafficking, which is rampant and thriving throughout Eastern Europe. ”

“I learned that if ONE family from every church around the world adopted just ONE orphaned child, the orphan crisis would be solved. Just ONE child per church!”

And of course, they need YOUR money to complete the adoptions…

Another PAP having problems with math

(4) Are you smart enough to be an Adoption Agency?

I was thinking this would be a new game show because every PAP  thinks they are social workers than can open up agencies and facilitate. It would be as safe as Russian Roulette.

Wren’s Song

[Douglas Budget 5/15/13]

2 days for Guatemala  referral..CHECK

Trying to adopt street child from a mom…CHECK

Pretending to be an adoption agency….CHECK

In the process of helping 22 families adopt children from the DRC…CHECK… gee maybe that is why there is a problem there now?

Mad that biological family took back the child before finalization and demeaning them…CHECK

Adoption agency pocketing half of the money that was being sent to the orphanage…CHECK

Comparing orphans to the Holocaust…CHECK

(5) Adopting a living souvenir chick featured on Both Ends Burning site

We facepalmed the author already. I guess that is a resume enhancer for Craig

https://bothendsburning.org/international-adoption-should-be-supported/

(6) Are you Smart enough to run an orphanage?

Yes, if you are a PAP or AP, why not open up a Guatemala orphanage. And as an aside, these people need lots of $$$ for their Ethiopia adoption because they travel in 2 weeks…hey it’s going to be a FUN DAY when they collect your money!

Fun Day proceeds to help with adoption

[Pontiac Daily Leader 5/16/13 by Cynthia Grau]

 

(7) Woman tries to give her baby away at a gas station.

Bail set for woman accused of trying to give baby away

[Arizona Central 5/16/13 y Cecilia Chan]

At least there are no interviews with adoption agencies who moan about not getting a cut of the action!