Pound Pup Legacy

Lori Carangelo started it when she group-listed a bunch of adopted serial killers, and wrote her book Chosen Children Billion Dollar Babies in America's Foster Care, Adoption & Prison Systems.

That's all it took for me to get hooked.

How anyone can think a woman's life-work linking poor placement with poor judgement as being bad for all must not be reading her message.

So I wrote the woman who took it upon herself to reach inmates who got hurt by those who were hurt by a system claiming to "save the children".

Lori is one tough cookie.

Anyone who takes the time to look and read the life-stories of those used and abused by those who claim to know a thing or two about the inside scoop about foster-care and adoption deserves a modicum of respect, and yet, for some reason, because her calling is one that's not sweet, cute and wrapped in blue and pink baby blankets, one quickly assumes she's Con and Against the adoptee because she mentions a term called The Adopted Child Syndrome (a phrase a psychologist used) and "prison sentence".

My, how narrow-minded Americans can be, when they don't read the full-story!

I so fully applaud Lori's work, I have taken it upon myself, a mere mom, adoptee and R.N. to further her crusade, by creating my own program, called:  Message in a Bottle.  It was through my contact with Lori, learning about Joel's case and reading in more detail about her Prison Pen-Pal Program that inspired me to contacted Dario M. and others like him, around the world to help me investigate The Primal Wound, and what, if anything can be done about it.  It's slow and steady work, but so far, unfunded.  Why?  Because no government wants to know the results!

So...has this been easy and fruitful work?  NO!  It's been a royal pain in the ass, especially when no one seems to see the connection, or seem to care what we're doing.  No one seems to see how or where Foster Care or Adoption connects to abuse or drug use, or incarceration.  REALLY?

Perhaps that needs to change.

Perhaps Wanda Dawn was named perfectly by her natural mother, after all.