Here we go again …
OMG! Celebrity adoption in the news … yawn … and it jump starts the backlash. Sheesh.
Okay, so it is Madonna, and although she may be named after the muthah of all mothers (in the Saddam Hussein sense, that is) there is consensus that June Cleaver she is not, but …
For Save the Children to react like this just annoys the socks I don’t wear right off my itchy feet.
Save the Children spokesman Dominic Nutt told the BBC’s Newshour programme: “For the most part so-called orphans in poor countries tend to have family still available to them, if not actually a parent still living.
“It is vital, we say, that children should not be taken abroad to be looked after but should be cared for in their own environment by their own community, ideally by their own family, particularly their extended family.”
Yeah … I do note that the guy’s a Nutt, which he proves nicely with:
“You cannot literally take every poor child who may only have one parent living, or no parent living, across the world and transport them all into Kensington in London. It’s not a solution.”
Gee … I wonder how much he gets paid to come up with such simplistic tripe?
Here’s a hint to agenda from him: “The thing to do is to support the community, to support local agencies and charities who can look after the child so that the child is at least cared for in their community.” (emphasis added)
Okay. One more time …
Malawi is in Africa. Much of Africa is dirt poor, disease-ridden, starvation-plagued, violent, corrupt and over-populated to the point where quality of life issues begin and end with millions of kids being dead before they are five years old.
Two kids who could end up in the category of dead will instead grow up in a rarefied atmosphere with an obnoxious mother who has more money than the GNP of some African countries.
This does in no way indicate that every poor orphan in the world will suffer the same fate as David and Mercy, nor does it mean that Save the Children execs are going to be put out of a job any time soon.
It may mean that the world will suffer the public personality flaws of two more publicity-hungry spoiled brats in a few years, but Paris Hilton … not an adoptee, by the way … will have faded into a Gabor sister by then and the rags will be needing new fodder.
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Love the Paris Hilton, Gabor sister metaphor! I get tired of these statements as I watch my children get a great education and much more. And I am miles poorer than Madonna, although we grew up near each other! Kathie
Something about the Hilton chick has always put me in mind of a Gabor or two …
The Gabor sisters personify class and elegance, compared to Paris Hilton, who is so vapid and dull she’s scary.
What Mr. Nutt fails to address is that families and communities most often either cannot or will not [usually cannot] care for orphans. In Russia and Kazakhstan it’s very rare, almost unheard-of, for a family to adopt a child who isn’t an infant. Both my kids would’ve been on the streets, criminals or prostitutes, if I hadn’t adopted them. Kids who “graduate” from orphanages are usually dead or in jail before age 30.
BBC Newshour folks need to get a rebuttal from someone who knows what they are talking about. Aaaargh…
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*”%&¦°§¬! Idiot!
Did I ever tell you that one of my s-i-l gave me the “children should not be adopted abroad they should be taken care by their – own- family” about 10 months after Bhavishya arrived home? She went to Africa to help build a school with the village church and came back with this kind of statement. Uuuuuurgh!
I find that Brits are extremely racist when it comes to international adoption…shocking!
I love your ironic tone you sometime take!
I love you and miss you tons
S
P.S. I am on Mark’s pc…mine is very sick with a bad virus %ç&&! I am trying to find someone to repair it!
Finally watched Slumdog Millionaire last night and wasn’t too impressed with the storyline, was too contrived for me anyway. BUT I thought of what you wrote here again and again while watching. I’m glad I have my kids here with me. Kathie
My fellow on Orkut shared this link and I’m not dissapointed that I came here.