Monthly Archives: September 2013
I’ve lost all faith…
By TAO
You know I try really hard to see the good in people. I want to believe there are more good people in adoption, than bad. I want to believe that folks want to do adoptions ethically and morally. Read the rest of this entry »
Two different attitudes…
By TAO
I
have been reading posts on the different orphan ministries sites over the last few years. The message I hear is a call to adopt the orphans or fatherless. From my view point they seem to use the terms orphans or fatherless interchangably. That all children deserve the protection of fathers. They do at times bring up the concept of family preservation but scant details are provided. Read the rest of this entry »
Choosing guardians – take two…
By TAO
I originally wrote the post below titled Choosing guardians back in 2011 – just a random thought I had about how adoption has prospective parents create these elaborate glossy selling themselves brochures with a “Dear Birthmother Letter”. How little there is to really tell the expectant mother considering adoption – who the prospective adoptive parents really are – and things I would consider before choosing a guardian if I had a child. Read the rest of this entry »
The automatic defensive response by some adoptive parents when bad adoption stories hit the news…
Just a short post to speak to the automatic defensive response I have read by some adoptive parents regarding the Reuters/NBC series on “Rehoming”. Why don’t they include stories about all the successful adoptions and good adoptive parents? It makes us all look bad! Read the rest of this entry »
Finding a home for a child vs Finding a child for a home, two different mindsets…
By TAO
Of all the different aspects of the case about Veronica Brown – the one question I can’t find an answer for: Why would adoptive parents be willing to, or want to, adopt a child whose parent did not want that child adopted? Because that would be a forced adoption, not a voluntary adoption, and I thought we were past all that, at least, that is what everyone proudly proclaims. Read the rest of this entry »