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A group of orphans in Haiti were waiting to be adopted by American families when the quake hit. The children, and the two American women who care for them, survived the quake.
They’re now sharing in the fate of the country: no water, no food, no security from violence should riots break out in their area.
Several mommy bloggers have taken up their cause, using their platform to get attention for these kids and the families hoping to welcome them home.
Kids are different from grown-ups: they don’t know everything, they can’t take care of themselves, and they have much to learn. That’s why they need parents and caregivers — to teach them what they don’t know, take care of them, and keep real world distractions at bay so that they can concentrate on learning, growing, and maturing. Unfortunately, for a myriad of reasons, not all kids have families.
If you thought all those status reports with the final score of the game you TiVo’d was bad, just wait. A kid who went to Europe on vacation logged onto Facebook to touch base . . . only to find out her entire family had been murdered.
Police now say the trip may have saved her life. Continue reading »
Okay. For all of you that got your panties in a bunch over the representation of adoption in the film Orphan …take a big deep breath. The horror/thriller has a big and I mean big twist at the end. A twist so unreal and completly unplausible that the idea of boycotts, protests and that the adoption community would be upset seems silly albetit well intentioned. Wanna know the reported twist ? (SPOILER ALERT ) Continue reading »
The new horror flick, Orphan, maybe have adoption groups up in arms for its demonic main character, but crazy Esther has a long line of demon spawn who proceeded her.
Hollywood loves casting kids as the bad guy. Continue reading »
Will Orphan, the horror movie that opens this week, instill a terror of adopting a child into the hearts and minds of potential adoption families? The film suggests that the act of bringing the wrong orphan into your home could result in pure psycho drama. Adoption groups, already sensing trouble, are rallying to protest the film and to promote a boycott of its release.
In a letter from the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute to Warner Bros.- the studio behind the flick – they state that, “We are concerned that in addition to its intended entertainment value, this film will have the unintended effect of skewing public opinion against children awaiting families both in the United States and abroad.” The letter was signed by the leaders of eleven adoption and child-welfare groups and it also noted that Continue reading »
A new summer horror movie is getting a deluge of negative publicity from adoptive parents and other members of the adoption world for portraying an older adopted child as a deranged would-be murderer of her adoptive parents and their (of course) biological children.
On the one hand Continue reading »
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