Look up "Toddlers and Tiaras Pretty Woman."
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I mean, it wasn't appropriate, but this was an overreaction. He literally just had to change his props and he could be any one of the plethora of white guy protagonists/antagonists that exist in pop culture. But holy shit mom, WHY?! Lol.
I think that's one reason this is so complicated. Informal or semi formal kinship care is as old as people. Sometimes it's really positive allowing a parent to deal with an illness or making sure one kid in a family doesn't get the short end of the stick if another kid is going through something like cancer treatment…
For one thing, I have heard that particularly with foreign adoptions that agencies/countries will downplay or even obscure the fact that children have special needs. And even if they do know what they are getting into, it could be more than they anticipated. I have two friends who adopted children internationally who…
The idea that you find yourself unable to cope with your adopted child is tragic BUT as someone who was complete handful when they were a kid (thanks to trauma and neglect) I kind of get it. However, doing anything but asking the state to rehome them is so completely crazy and fucked up I don't even know how people…
Perfect description of the balance between naiveté, self-righteousness, and stupidity that occurs in these situations. Just adding a link to a story that was done up here in Canada in regards to rehoming.
Yes, absolutely. Parents do place their kids with friends or family for a variety of reasons (moving out of state but want kid to finish the school year, servicemember parent being deployed, parent going to prison, etc.). I don't know how you criminalize one situation and not the others. But this situation - giving…
well he's a loving christian tea party family man. What's the worst that could happen? It's not like tea parties have ever been exposed as hypocritic criminals before. That's just crazy town. It's those gay parents, parents who have a history of anxiety or depression. They're the ones you gotta watch out for! (Ugh, I…
That seems to be the case with the Christian families "rehoming" their internationally adopted children featured in the Reuters story from last year. But these people adopted from the state, and in order to do so, were specifically screened and trained by the state as foster parents to have these girls placed into…
It is common. More common among christian foreign adoptions.
I'm an adoptive parent and a Christian, and unfortunately, this kind of thing can easily happen when those two come together. I have come to know quite a few families in the adoption community that adopted because of reading James 1:27 ("Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look…
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This article is so sad but very informative on this subject. It's a travesty that should be illegal. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/…
The kids had been in foster care and he just gave them to his random former employee, whom he had fired for not being up to snuff at the job, a job caring for children??!!!!!!
I hope this results in more attention on the gray market for children. Rehoming is common and tragic.
I knew it. See, ladies! You don't have to be photoshopped to have a disproportionately sized waist! You can just wear a corset at all times and only eat soup. Sounds grand.
But they should do it through the court system and the trial so that they are only given what a judge says they are allowed to view. This bypasses that system entirely and probably gets them documents they are not supposed to have.
I hear what you're saying and I didn't mean to take away these women's agency, but to add nuance b/c I hate the sensationalism of the Black Widow narrative.