LDS and Bethany Christian Services: I want your infant for adoption
Today the National Council for Adoption, launched a campaign to persuade mothers to give up their newborns for adoption. On a newly launched website iChooseAdoption.org, the Demons of Adoption, promote the notion of relinquishing with the slogan Sometimes choosing adoption is being a good mother.
With a glossy website, having classy looking young women of all colours and races, with grave looks of sorrow on their faces, the Council pictures adoption as a lifestyle option, as if they are selling iPods.
The website shows a promotional video, which will air in the next few weeks, in which a voice over, suggesting to belong to the young chocolate brown woman, says:
I always thought being a good mother, meant raising my children myself
But when I got pregnant, I realized I wasn't ready to be a parent
So I did something I thought I'd never could do, I chose adoption.
It was really hard, but I know my baby is with a loving family and has a very bright future.
Let's see how bright Nicolai Emelyantsev's future is, adopted by a loving LDS family and forever dead since last week or look at Hei Min Chung and Emma Alvey see how bright their future is, after being placed by the other big contributor of the NCFA, Bethany Christian Services.
From the iChooseAdoption.org website it is obvious whose work is promoted here. Go look for yourself and check our the Looking for adoption counseling? page. Search the various states and notice how in each state, where represented, LDS Family Services is listed first, followed by Bethany Christian Services.
It's sad to see that fellow adoptee and country music singer-songwriter, Rodney Atkins, chose to team up with the Demons of Adoption in this campaign, together they may be able to persuade young women to give up their babies Before the Devil Even Knows.
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I don't know if I should laugh or cry at the propaganda being pushed on the parents trusting adoption services. In fact, given the number of adopted children diagnosed and parents seeking "treatment" for Reactive Attachment Disorder, perhaps we too should change the language of child placement and associated disorders that go with the deeds. How does "Relinquished And Depressed" fit as an appropriate name-change. The initials are the same, so limit the confusion. Maybe THEN the message sent to family therapists, medical specialists, and legal representatives will become more clear: adoption should only be the very last option given to a child, especially if there are responsible adults within his/her family-network capable of assuming legal guardianship.
Meanwhile, what can be done to better educate eager parents-to-be? Barbara Holtan wrote an article, "Are you ready to adopt?" She writes about the motives behind an adoption, and how those motives need to be re-checked with alternatives that are not so life-altering for a child.
I feel so empty inside. A child will fill up that emptiness. /Find a friend.I just want to cry when I think about all those poor homeless children. I think I'll take one in. / No child needs pity. / Donate to the missions.
There's absolutely no child that I couldn't love./ Ouch! I could show you a few.
I am a teacher (or mental health professional or social worker or doctor) and I am a "pro" at dealing with children. / Being a child professional is a lot different than being someone's parent.
All these children really need is a lot of love. / I used to think that, too. Now I know better.
I/We just really like kids and want to add one (or more) to our family. I want to be someone's parent. I know I have a lot to learn but I want to begin. / Yes! Go for it, you're on the right road.
Barbara Holtan is Adoption Director at Tressler Lutheran Services in York, Pennsylvania. She and her husband are the parents of three children by adoption and two by birth.
As long as agencies are being asked to serve wanting and needing individuals, there will be new means and techniques to keep their business going. Sadly, when it comes to babies in this industry, "All's fair in love and war."
Seriously!! Sometimes I
Seriously!! Sometimes I laugh that people really buy into this? that they can believe it? Its jaw dropping that people can buy into the artificial sales pitch agencies use on an alarming basis.
Good post :)
And she bore him a son and he (Moses) called his name Gershom "for," he said "I have been a stranger in a foreign land." ~ exodus 2:22
The Fairy Tale
It is indeed unbelievable how this huge BUSINESS is always presented as a fairy tale.
And people love fairy tales. They even believe them.
the odds are in their favor
It's like the best-kept secret in history, isn't it? Unless there becomes a group of unified victims mauled and mamed by the adoption industry, willing to tell the other-side of agency practices and adoption placements, the baby-business will run as usual. Maybe it's too late for us adult adoptees, but as an adult who knows how corrupt and one-sided adoption is for so many, is it fair to let more children and parents get hurt by those seeking their own bottom-line?
It's insane these private practices are getting away with what they do. If we don't try to do anything to stop it, we too will be blamed by the next generation asking, "WTF? Didn't anyone know about this????"
Adoptees are the only group of people that transcends race, gender, ethnicity, religion, political preference and sexual orientation. Let that be our force against the international industry that fails to recognize it's flaws.
Please tell me, what needs to be done to unify adoptees and all the parents hurt by the dark-side of adoption???