FacePalm Friday
Welcome to this week’s edition of FacePalm Friday. Alright it is not Friday in some places already, but in some places it still is! Hey it has been a long week…give us a break.
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.
(1) Comparing adoption to giving Jesus a “room at the inn” AND their family to Noah’s Ark.
You are not God and your children are not salvation for yourselves. I am tired of blaspheming references of adoptive parents to Saints, Jesus, God etc. And Noah’s Ark was two of every ANIMAL so don’t compare your kids-bio and adopted- to animals. 
‘God made room in this inn for Carlos and Sophie’
[DNJ 12/24/11 by Scott Broden]
(2)Adoption is the best option for children in foster care.
This article never even mentions reunification as any option. 
The focus is again on the number of children placed instead of serving the children best.
The reference to redistribution of children from foster care is disgusting. “But while times are tough financially, the rewards of adopting, according to Sue, are high. “Some families are not able to have children and others already have children but being able to offer their parenthood to another child is very rewarding.”
Prospective parents urged to join the adoption family
kind of award is this? 
Explaining to relatives why I hated THE HELP precisely as awkward as explaining why I hated THE BLIND SIDE.
“@scott_tobias Dont b a hater But if u must then hate cancer, homelessness, war, poverty, child abuse, animal cruelty but a movie. #sadforyou”
Get over yourself, Ms. Tuohy. He didn’t like the movie.
‘Blind Side’ mom tweets critic
[MSNBC 12/29/11 by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper]
…about not being able to add another child to their current 11 special needs children and
they put down adult adoptees “It crushes my heart when I hear those who were adopted say some of the cruelest things against adoption, out of their pain. I understand the pain of being raised by parents who aren’t the best. I was never adopted and my parents were not good parents. But I don’t speak out against “birth” parents. As adoptive parents we are criticised easily by lots of people. We are expected to be more perfect than birth parents. Birth parents can have excuses. But because we “chose” to parent, we shouldn’t have flaws.”
Missy and Mike Wilson announced plans to create a home to help some of the half-million impoverished orphans in the country during a press conference today at the McKay’s Mill Clubhouse.
“Haiti has impacted us on a level I can’t explain,” Mike Wilson told a dozen or so in attendance. The Wilsons have adopted one child from the country and are in the process of finishing paperwork for a second. The two girls – Tia and Naika – attend Williamson County Schools along with their brothers, the Wilsons’ sons, Dyllan, Lane and Eli. They also claim a sixth child, Katie Erie, who has been a part of the family since 2004.
The Wilsons had been previously involved in Haiti via ministries. Both Mike and Missy worked for churches that traveled to the country. In 2009, they began adoption procedures for Tia, and in 2010, Erie journeyed to Haiti to participate in an eight-month internship at a children’s home. Eight days after her arrival, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake left her stranded with 48 children and 12 other workers.
Since that life-altering experience, the Wilsons have made dozens of trips to Haiti, delivering goods and helping where they can. Now, their plans have become more concrete with their newly formed MyLifeSpeaks organization.
Through this organization, they will create a special type of orphanage, first in Neply, a small town 25 miles south of Port-Au-Prince, the country’s capital.
The home will serve about eight children, possibly more, with some having special needs. The home will be headed by a mother and father. The idea is to model a family, not unlike the Wilsons. Their son, Lane, has cerebral palsy and is blind.
Their hope is that the home can also serve as a community center. The home they have selected to rent first will have a space to serve children from the community a meal. The hope is to also develop more homes across the country.
The Wilsons have garnered a lot of interest from the community. Hillary Scott of Lady Antebellum fame has visited Haiti with the Wilsons and has taken up the cause, supporting them both financially and emotionally.
“To watch how the Wilson children have adapted, it’s a model we want to take into Haiti,” Scott said in a video shown at the press conference.”
No talk of licensure, training, screening of this mother and father or any special training to take care of special needs kids. Hey they adopted! Therefore they are ready to set up an orphanage and of course they want to expand across the country with it already too.
Franklin family to start orphanage in Haiti
“Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman, who often speaks movingly of his adopted daughters while on the campaign trail, said Friday that Ron Paul’s supporters were out of line in using the girls to argue that Huntsman is un-American.
An online ad posted by “NHLiberty4Paul” includes video footage of Huntsman, the former ambassador to China, with daughter Gracie when she was an infant. It also shows Huntsman holding Asha shortly after she was adopted from India.
“American values? Or Chinese?” the ad asks, ending with “Vote Ron Paul.”
A message sent to the ad’s creator was not returned. Paul’s New Hampshire spokeswoman, Kate Schackai, said Friday she didn’t know who was behind the ad, but it wasn’t anyone affiliated with the campaign.
“The video was utterly distasteful and no one who actually supports Dr. Paul’s principles would have made it,” she said.
In Concord, Huntsman said it was “stupid” to allege that he has Chinese values because he lived overseas and speaks Chinese.
“If someone wants to poke fun at me, that’s OK,” said Huntsman, whose campaign has posted several online ads attacking Paul as unelectable. “What I object to is bringing forward pictures and videos of my adopted daughters and suggesting there’s something sinister there.”
Ad Creator (and Ron Paul if he does not denounce this), you are a Racist 
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