FacePalm Friday

This is where your hosts will list their top picks for what they learned or read about this week that caused them to do a facepalm (the expression of mixed humor and disbelief or disgust or shame as depicted in our Rally facepalm smiley).

We invite you to add your facepalms of the week to our comments. Go ahead and add a link, tell a personal story, or share something on the subject of child welfare or adoption that you became aware of this week that made you facepalm.

Your hosts picks this week:

San Marino (microstate in Italy) advertises for orphans from Philippines with its wealth, beauty and educational opportunities…

http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/314094/san-marino-offers-take-orphans-abandoned-children

30 PAPs are already signed up

“”Orphans and abandoned children in the Philippines now have the chance to live a more “serene” life in one of the wealthiest countries in the world.

Last Wednesday, the Most Serene Republic of San Marino (in Italy), the oldest surviving sovereign
state and constitutional republic in the world, signed an inter- country adoption agreement with the Philippines designed to provide a family to a Filipino orphan or abandoned child and give them the chance to get formal education in the European microstate.”

“Bollini, with the assistance of the Department of Social Welfare and Development and the local Inter-Country Adoption Board (ICAB), is currently scouting for orphanages where the beneficiaries of the program will be picked.”

The Crazy Mom Visit-an-Orphan Program

http://poundpuplegacy.org/node/47242

Hand-Picked Fruit Adoption Services

For both the name and its “services” and products.

http://www.handpickedfruitadoption.com/Services-Packages.html

Though she adopted from foster care, she offers advice for domestic and international adoption including researching agencies. For $399, she will arrange an adoption celebration for you.

•    Simply Hand Picked TM
•    Hand Picked Glamazon TM
•    Hand Picked Braniac TM
•    Hand Picked Thunder Bolt TM
•    Hand Picked Fruit Band- Cartoon DVD Series TM

Her free free adoption booklet promotes the “love is all you need” myth.
And forget about those pesky  “consent issues” with international adoption and foster care!

“HPF does Post Adoption Consultations to help with your transition and new life. With international and foster care adoptions you will not have to adhere to the consent issues like domestic/direct consent adoptions. Lots of hugs, lots of kisses and lots of love are the recipe during this time. You will not be perfect, nor does your new child expect you to be. Depending upon the adoption program you are a part of, you can expect to have visitations from adoption reps and/or foster care workers for the next 3-6 months based on the states guidelines.”