Ah yes, the foreign kid (or black baby for white parents)fashion accessory - what to do when they go out of fashion.
This makes me want to puke.....passing children around is pure evil.
So I’m flying back from a South African hunting trip and the plane was chock full of white do gooders just radiating their own goodness, their brains stewing in endorphins of wonderfulness that they adopted a poor African child. So how many of these kids are going to be abandoned once the brain rush of “goodness” wears off? Another true story, a childless couple “wanted” children, go thru the steps, foster two young kids, and within one week that much was too much and back they go.
When you adopt a kid, he or she is your FOREVER kid, just as if they were born to you. You don’t get to just “re-home” them if it doesn’t work out like you hoped. It’s a pretty good chance that whoever takes them is going to abuse them, especially if you found them on craigslist. If you really can’t handle them, seek out a church that can help with fostering or adoption.
Remember this?
We adopted a 3 1/2 year old. She’s 31 now and has a daughter, our only grandchild. I have been where some of those adoptive parents are. It was very very hard at times but now I recognize what a blessing she is and I love her very much.
Blood ties, it turns out are important, when it comes to the raising of children. Who knew?
Really fascinating article, thanks for posting the whole thing.
I remember a few years ago hearing Dr. Laura, after airing a horror story about an adoption from Russia, telling her audience not to adopt from there — precisely because she’d heard so many horror stories of Russian adoptions gone wrong.
Well, Putin put an end to it so it’s a moot point.
I personally know THREE african adoptions to well meaning white parents that went completely sour and they had to place the child somewhere else before their own families imploded.
little or no government scrutiny
lawless marketplace
bypass the government
You're being set up. If real crimes occurred then prosecute. No parent gets a pass from child endangerment laws, rape, or physical abuse, etc.
The truth is that, at least in Illinois, the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) has hundreds of horror stories every year where government agents failed to take action or improve a situation. Illinois drove religious adoption agencies out of business because they wouldn't place children with homosexual couples.
We shouldn't fall for this game. Demand prosecution of abusive parents, but don't pretend that government oversight would be any cure.