Whatever! Get your free Ipod
While supplies last.
Remember this little girl? Her adoptive father traveled to China to bring her back to the United States while his wife was home with newborn twins, a two-year-old and a four-year-old. Who the heck thought that was a good idea?
Six months later, the parents decide it’s not working out so they relinquish custody to another couple. But then they decide they want the kid back.
Now the court has decided that the second couple should have guardianship.
BUT …!
The second couple has criminal charges pending against them. So the court won’t allow them to adopt until they are acquitted or the charges are dropped. On the other hand, if they’re found guilty, the court will decide what’s in the child’s “best interest.”
Gotta love it. I guess it must be the U.S. that gives them out like free Ipods.
Posted on February 19, 2008, in still thinking. Bookmark the permalink. 4 Comments.
It seems that everyday people of color are told, unambiguously, just how little our lives are worth. Apparently today’s lesson is that we don’t even deserve good parents — any white who gets the whim to raise us is good enough.
And now having read the article, I see the new parents charges relate to illegally taking Samoan babies from their parents — are you going to blog on that too?
I wish I could say this surprises me. I wish I could think it was rare.
One of the key things our SW focused on was making American adoption look good to sending countries. Not necessarily just us, ANY AND ALL. Seemed like we were part of a campaign. One SW even told us that our post placement reports play exactly that role, that they are about keeping the doors open to int’l adoption, which means they are really not going to be a very accurate record of the short or long term impact of ICA, now are they?
It is rumored that PP reports that mention that the children came from or into difficult circumstances are suppressed. There’s no way to know this for sure but there is a definite conflict of interest in an agency telling the sending country anything negative if the market is going to stay fluid.
I hate to admit it because I “bought in” but I am increasingly convinced that it’s ALL about the marketing.
Btw the comments on that piece are interesting. People who support the original adoptive parents are saying things very like what should be said in support of birth parents.