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) Landrieu secures $39.3 Million for her adoption agency friends. A whopping $1.4
million is for her tiny state.

Louisiana has 1.4% of the US population but they received 3.5% of this money.

Landrieu Secures Key Provisions for Adoption, Vulnerable Youth in Labor-HHS Spending Bill

 (2)UK Foster parents’ superhero campaign

“Council chiefs in Dudley have launched a campaign to recruit more foster parents, with the slogan “Foster parents are superheroes in disguise.”

“The recruitment drive shows foster parents in superhero costumes carrying out domestic tasks with foster children, including cooking and shopping.”

Father’s Day row over council’s ‘superheroes’ foster parents campaign

[Sunday Mercury 6/17/12 by Fionnuala Bourke]

 

(3) The traveling circus of foster kid pictures..now playing in Missouri

The “exhibit” is in  a library.

What a performance! 

Library to hold adoption exhibit next week

[Neosho Daily News 6/16/12 by Whitney Saporito]

(4) Adoptive parent writes song so Dillon can raise money from it.

As if Dillon needs more money! Think of how that money could’ve been used for direct orphan care or family preservation!
Webster Groves dad writes song to help adoption agency

[St. Louis Today 6/17/12 by Joe Holleman]

 

 

(6)Russia studies Ohio’s child welfare system to set up a good foster care system

Oh yes, they are really going to learn a lot by studying about the fabulous foster parents of Ohio like Barbara Brooks, Roger Ball, Leroy Harlem and more!

Russians study Ohio’s child welfare, foster care programs

[Cleveland Plain Dealer 6/20/12 by Reginald Fields]

(7) Calvary Adoption International Russia Progam

http://www.calvaryadoption.net/OUR-STAFF.html

“Meet Doctor Irina Duff M.D, PhD candidate (Child Clinical Psychology program, Fielding Graduate University).
Doctor Irina Duff is our Program Director, and much more! She is a licensed Physician in Russia. Her specialties are Pediatrics and Child Psychiatry . Now she is working on being licensed in the US as a Medical Doctor. She is also working on getting her US PhD degree in Child Clinical Psychology. She is a Russian citizen and has close relationships with her home country. She is able to understand culture, language, mentality of people in Russia and other East European countries. Originally she was trained in Russia so she understand medical system in this country and able to examine the medical reports of any child you may choose to adopt from Russia or other East European countries. Being a Licensed Doctor in Russia, she knows where the healthy children are, and how to obtain them in the shortest amount of time.”

Don’t do it, little PAP!