Of course not its not in vouge
Posted on 06/11/2004 12:28:42 PM PDT by Willie Green
ERIE — A white couple and their adopted daughter were ordered off an airplane because police were concerned they had abducted the Chinese toddler.
Richard and Ruth Feiock, of Tallahassee, Fla., said the actions of police were bigoted and that they may file a civil lawsuit against Erie International Airport.
“It was a very racist thing to do, ordering us off of the plane,” said Richard Feiock, a political science professor at Florida State University. The family was in Erie on Tuesday night to see an older daughter graduate from Northwest Pennsylvania Collegiate Academy.
Two people aboard the Delta flight became concerned when the Feiock´s 2-year-old daughter began crying incessantly as the airplane sat on the tarmac, police said.
Race was not a consideration when the couple were asked to get off the plane, said David Bagnoni, director of public safety and chief of police at Erie International.
“The baby was screaming, ‘Mommy, Mommy, Mommy,´ and fussing, trying to get out of the hands of the woman holding her,” he said....
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
I dislike a screaming child in a confined space as much as the next person... but maybe the people voicing their concerns should have had to get off of the airplane along the the family and explain to the police the basis of their concerns as well. That way, when they all found out it was just a case of "cranky baby," appropriate apologies could have been made and accepted and all involved could be equallty inconvenienced. No more "hit and run" accusations.
You mean aside from a lack of kids to adopt and laws that allow birth parents and other blood relatives up to to years to challenge adoptions?
1. There are very few infants available for adoption in the United States due to abortion and the acceptance of unwed parenthood.
2. Open adoptions.
3. The lack of finality in domestic adoptions. One never knows when the putative father will re-appear to contest the adoption on the grounds of lack of notice.
If I had more time, I could probably come up with other reasons -- but, put simply, international adoptions are typically faster and more readily-available.
My husband and I looked into foster adopting. They wanted control over our lives, and especially how we raised our OWN
childen. That ended that.
I bet the Chinese government isn't butting into these people's lives.
It's often far quicker and easier and sometimes even cheaper (believe it or not) to adopt a foreign born child/baby than an "American" child. Between the red-tape and slow system here make adopting here often quite taxing.
Also - there actually is a shortage of babies for adoption here in the States - lots of older children, but few babies. In many other countries (mostly 3rd world) have overflowing numbers of infants needing a home.
Thank abortion for the lack of adoptable babies here in the US.
Of course not its not in vouge
So two idiots get perturbed at a crying baby and the airline orders the parents off.
I hope they sue and win. Moronic passengers who complained, moronic airline crews.
On what basis were they ordered to miss their flight?
Is common sense that rare? Happens on almost every flight with toddlers. They scream a lot.
Then what other reason did you use?
your papers please
I think you missed part of the article:
A WHITE couple and their adopted daughter...
The couple were not of a "mixed" race, they were white and their adopted child is Asian.
More likely to be abducted by a non-mixed race couple? What gives you that idea? I'm sure if someone really wanted to traffic and make the "parents" look more legit, there are plenty of Asian women down on their luck on the west coast, probably trafficked in themselves, who would be willing to be part of that plan for a little extra cash.
Lots of lawyers willing to handhold with the birth mother when they're ready to snatch them back.
I doubt there is anything "wrong" with them, but parents retain a lot of rights to their children for an extended period of time in the states and that spooks some from adopting here because the deal could fall through with a lot of money and time wasted and never to be repaid by the person who all of a sudden decided they wanted to be a parent. Not to mention there are some barriers to adopting outside of one's race in this country too.
It would also eliminate the unlikely, but possible, case of someone who was just voicing a complaint to get an inconsolable child off of their flight.
Owl_Eagle
”Guns Before Butter.”
A number of these children end up with pedophiles & the porn industry. Other are adopted by people who do not qualify for adoption because of their criminal record, previous abuse of children, etc.
These are true horror stories.
There are plenty of American kids that need adopted, but the current adoptions laws, which vary from state to state make this and exceedingly difficult and expensive process.
Except these people adopted a child from China (not Cambodia).
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