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:

Free Sperm Donors and The Women Who Want Them

Seriously, that is the html for the “You Get Your Sperm Where?”  article. “Meet a ‘donorsexual’ on the web—and he’ll service you anywhere.” And they do mean ANYWHERE, including…Starbucks. It adds a whole new meaning to what you want with your .

Bamboo Baby

People just can’t stop comparing potential adoptees to animals. Now these Chinese Special Needs kids that are being wantonly photolisted on a nonagency blog  are like .

Angels In Adoption PR Notice

From here, the Congressional Coalition’s awards has several facepalms. First is how they use the Trademark symbol multiple times. Trust us, no one wants to use your stupid term for anything.

Second, Nia Vardalos is one of the recipients. She supports the Helpusadopt.org which was the subject of our May 27, 2011 Facepalm. To refresh your memory, this organization is headed by APs who admitted to spending $100,000 “upfront” for their two newborn domestic adoptions of white children.

Third,  the only adoptee of the group, Scott, has his parents accepting the award. It just perpetuates the ever-child like adoptee nonsense.

Fourth, Freddie Mac Foundation is getting an award. Yep, that Freddie Mac of the housing bubble burst.

Buckner Dispels Negative Russian Adoption Myths in a Faux News Article

From this article, she says the following is untrue: “horror stories of emotionally-stunted children, or kids the orphanage says are healthy but turn out to have a physical disorder of some kind. ”

Reformatina says “Maybe we should set up tours to come and meet Russian adoptees in homes they are currently terrorizing and meet the parents who are now whacked out while neither child nor parent are getting help from their agencies.”

Then the “article” turns to a sales pitch for young kids “Actually, we have a little two-and-a-half-year-old boy right now that has been waiting, and we don’t have a family for almost a year,” notes Wynne. “I just can’t believe that.”

And more no hope/Living on a prayer: “it’s true that children under 12 months are often adopted domestically in Russia. But Buckner frequently has children from 12 months to 15 years waiting to be adopted. The sad truth is: now that Russia is improving domestic adoptions, kids waiting for international families are living on a prayer.”

On their website “Be a Family” ” Find pictures of the children currently in search of a family”
Really? The kids are searching for US families? Do they get to pick?

Lastly, ““consider how God may want you to spread His name through adoption in Russia. ” because adoption is about proselytizing, right?Oh wait…