Continued from the previous post where we were looking at some faulty thinking ...

Can we point out how downright silly many of UNICEF's arguments against international adoption are? The hierarchal system insisted upon, for example, that can so quickly be checked and discounted: bio parents, then other nationals, then foreigners living in country, then as a last, last resort, parents in gasp! a whole other country.

Biological parents die, and those that don't still have a right to chose a different life for their children. Being poor is not the same as being stupid, and to insist that these parents don't know what they're doing when they decide to relinquish a child for adoption is insulting to all of them.

And anyone who thinks that children in Guatemala, India, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Haiti and on and on are likely to be adopted by local families really needs to get out more.

How about the UNICEF's bright idea that private relinquishment adoptions are stopped so older, institutionalized children get adopted instead? Yeah ... that sounds good. No reason not to start off a whole new generation of older, institutionalized kids, and that's what the relinquished babies would have to look forward to.

One of my very favorites is UNICEF taking issue with poverty being a reason behind relinquishment and adoption. How Marie Antoinette can they get? I'll believe that is really a part of an acutal UN agenda when they start spurning limos, private jets, shiny new SUV convoys and designer suits and start flying coach and taking the bus. Maybe, just maybe, then they'll have some idea of what life is really like when poverty grinds away at the very soul of people.

That's all I can do today. I have a headache and my daughter would like more of my lap. Visit Families Without Borders, attend the 'ethics' conference if you can and ask some tough questions of those with simplistic 'solutions'. Write letters to people in charge of stuff and make sure they understand that international adoption is an important option that must be preserved.

Go on. Get going ...