I doubt that I will ever cease to be amazed at the power of personal spin on topics as contentious as international adoption. One person's negative experience repeated often and widely enough becomes legend-like, and as bandwagons fill more and heavier investment is made by those who've become accustomed to the company on board and have no desire to see the blasted thing run out of gas.

The Casa Quivira mess in Guatemala, of course, goes down like jet fuel, and the bandwagon is now screaming all over the Internet in whoops and hollers of self-righteous back-patting as leaps are made where facts aren't found and tut-tutters are beside themselves with justification for every negative stance they've ever managed to pull themselves down to.

Those not quite as overjoyed tend to sit back and wait to see to which side of the line they'll eventually fall as the situation unfolds, unwilling to stick a neck out in fear of getting in run over in the frenzy.

Parents directly involved keep their heads down and pray.

All the while, some with an agenda they're very attached to play connect-the-dots, filling in where there are no dots with whatever will manage to create the picture they have in mind at the outset, very often after a set-up designed to soften the edges and welcome folks in for a look.

This blog, for example, does a great job of cherry-picking bits from a a short Time article that offered nothing new or substantial ... although here it's touted as a "rare and thoughtful exploration of different perspectives on the problems" ... taking the pits; then arranging them according to a pre-planned design that will have international adoption looking like a house of horror.

How's this for a revealing peek at the blogger's position?

In Guatemala, where 1 of every 100 children born last year was sold in adoption to Americans, the threat can feel—and be—very real.

Sold? Hmmmmm. Now, there's a clear case of Lock and Load.

Continued in the next post.



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