Haiti earthquake: charities warn against rush to speed adoptions

Telegraph.uk.co ^ | 22 Jan 2010 | Bruno Waterfield and Nick Allen

[ColdOne]

Countries including France and Spain have streamlined the process in the hope of getting young people to safety as soon as possible.

But Unicef and other welfare groups, led by British charities, have warned orphans risked being separated from their families and the well-meaning moves by Westerners could be considered "abuse".

[cherry]

oh brother.....

[Yorlik803]

Are these kids going to end like status symbols for middle age white women like dogs that fit into their purses?
These are human being and they cant dump them at the pound when they go out of fashion.
Is it “ White Guilt” that drives people to adopt these kid? Isnt there enough babies born here?
I doubt a lot of peoples motives, but then again I am jaded and callous.

[mvpel]

I doubt a lot of peoples motives, but then again I am jaded and callous.

Try to get some help for that.

Isnt there enough babies born here?

Frankly, no. There are 1.4 million babies who are killed every year in the US alone, before they even have a chance to be born.

Most of the rest are swept up into an emotional post-partum roil by young women determined to raise the child themselves at the fringes of destitution supported by a raft of social services like high school day care and government welfare incentives, clinging to the fanciful belief reinforced by societal influences that nobody can love her child as much as she can.

And so each crisis pregnancy of a generally healthy baby brought to term in the US, and the birth mother of which has decided to give the baby up for adoption, has an average of four and sometimes as many as a dozen prospective adoptive parents from which she can choose.

And what's more, a birth mother may revoke her consent in many states within a certain number of days of the child's birth (60 days in Delaware), even though the child has been placed for adoption during that period. And thanks to the government and other incentives, that happens all too often.

So why should we put ourselves through this when there are hundreds of thousands of beautiful precious children in other nations around the world whose entire families are dead or whose mothers and fathers severed their parental rights and never looked back?

[Yorlik803]

I stand corrected{ How often does one hear that here?}