Last night I visited the Christian Adoption Blog where . . . OK, stupid thing I did. Commented on the children-for-sale listings known euphemistically as “adoption situations”.
To the untrained eye, it was noted (politely and without sarcasm) that they appear to be offering children for sale. Could they supply us with a financial breakdown? Needless to say, my comment has not been published.
Y’all know I paid. The money went to the first agency (lost the $5000 fee but we shut them down); new agency fee—around $1500; fee for the home study paid directly to the social worker; document fees paid directly to the various gov’t agencies involved; travel, hotel, and spending money for the mandatory 2-week stay in China (2 locations, 2 hotels); and the then-US$3000 orphanage donation. That added up to about CDN$20K. A huge chunk of the money went toward traveling to China and staying in hotels for two weeks. These people are doing domestic adoptions. ???
What’s weird and perverted is how in the current marketplace some of their “adoption situations” are worth $16K and some are worth $39K.
Why is that?
Can somebody please step up and explain why the African-American boy from Illinois costs $15K and the caucasian child of unknown gender in Indiana might fetch up to $39K?
All things being equal, why isn’t the fee standard and where does the $24K float go and why? To whom? For what purpose?
What the heck is an “adoption situation” and how is it indistinguishable from child-selling?
Note: This site has already been flagged by an adoptee blogger—Issycat, Ungrateful, or Addiepray. Can’t remember which one of you guys blogged about it, but I remember you did. Honestly, this stuff needs to be looked at.
Filed under: adoption, kids, life , adoption, adoption situations, African-American, children-for-sale, China, Christian Adoption Blog, orphanage donation
According to wholesome smiley faced CAC consultant Kara Lee
http://apathoftheheart.blogspot.com/2009/10/new-situations-cac-fee-discount.html
they’re generously offering a 10% discount on their consulting packages http://www.christianadoptionconsultants.com/index.php?page=consulting-packages
as a “kick-off” to National Adoption Month.
“Adoption situation”?
Seems to me that the word “adoption” has become almost newspeak.
In some circles, especially the extreme Christian Right, it is practically heretical to even suggest that adoption can ever be “ungood”.
And “situation”? Another thought-stopper right there.
“Situation” just *has* to be bad.
I’m guessing it’s just another coded message that “adoption saves”.
As in “the situation room”.
Right.
I just checked out the website…unbelievable. made me sick to read it. I noticed an earlier list shows that some of the children had “possible medicals,” but none of the newly minted crop for sale did.
Thanks for bringing this to light.
Yeah, there’s a number of these sites out there, and they get blogged about from time to time.
In addition to the sliding scale based on race, I remain offended at the headless torso of the pregnant woman on their http://www.hopeforadoption.com website. Their rendering of woman-as-incubator for consumers speaks volumes.
Not suggesting it’s anything new but this one seems especially crass.