Dusty Neighborhood & Dirt Roads

You know I love it when someone who knows much, much more than I do about something, gives me the run down on what they do, their field of research, profession, enthusiasm or particular skill or interest. I remember way, way back having Quantum physics explained, remember when I discovered fractals and when I was given the full description by one of my daughter's old school friends on how classy chocolates are made. Her friend had particular expertise in coaxing machines which were well over 100 years old to give their best and I was fascinated by how the machines work and what they do. I could have listened all day because he was an expert, a real expert who knew what he was doing, knew his job inside out and had genuine enthusiasm for it - who wouldn't love making beautiful chocolates which bring so much enjoyment and pleasure.
We have our experts in adoptionland too, but those who are wise, know that there is so much to know you can't know everything. It's good to see we have an increasing number of adoptee comics, stand-ups, actors and musicians who do their thing so expertly, making such a valuable contribution to understanding, recognition and the exposure of our particular and unique qualities and preoccupations.
There are others, non-adoptees who like adoption humour too, such as KitKatKootie over at her blog I want a dumpster baby  No alcohol, doing my best to quit smokes. This fucking baby better be worth it. God Dammit. I want a Dumpster baby because my husband and I are trying to have a baby and not having much luck. I won’t go into a lot of details, but it’s been a challenge. I love rescue animals and I would love a rescue baby the same way. Also, it’s way cheaper to find a dumpster baby than adoption and in-vitro. So it’s a joke, but really not at all.   So, as she says just not really at all.
Then there's our old friend anonymous who embarrasses her/himself by not understanding how discussion works or that commenting on aspects of adoption and adoption practise is not best served by personal remarks about someone unknown and a situation unknown personally.It just makes him/her appear an hysterical ranter who has taken something very personally for themselves or for that adopter they so admire who is a saint but outed by others as racist, adoptist, disablist or adultist.
That other bothersome group of 'experts' know all there is to now about a tiny area of adoption, say adoption of 'orphans' with disabilities.They're prepared to break the rules because they feel so strongly about their cause and ministry.What they are doing in filming and publishing photos of children who are not adoptees, is illegal and if brought to book they will make things so much harder for those very children they claim to care about so deeply. When the doors close will they accept responsibility for their part in that? What will happen to those children left behind because of their actions? Caring for children means caring for all children, not just a select few.
It seems some Christian evangelists  are quite happy to break the rules - In early 2010, NCFA held an online ethics seminar that drew roughly twenty-five representatives from religious and secular adoption agencies. As part of the webinar, NCFA took a blind poll of participants’ responses to various ethical situations. Either through ignorance or a willingness to bend the rules, 20–30 percent of agency representatives gave answers that were tantamount to committing visa fraud or other serious violations. “You’ll hear people saying, I’m following God’s law, not man’s laws,” Johnson says
So to Another face of unethical adoption: Life seemed to give Karla Zepeda a break when a woman came to her dusty neighborhood of cinderblock homes and dirt roads looking for babies to photograph in an anti-abortion ad campaign.
The woman asked to use the 15-year-old’s baby girl in a two-week photo shoot for $755, a small fortune for a teen mother who earns $180 a month at a sandwich stand and shares a small, one-story house with her disabled mother, stepfather, and three brothers.
But 9-month-old Camila wasn’t just posing for photographs.  Click the link and read on. What have you done today to encourage ethical adoption anonymous?