Pound Pup Legacy

The man who impregnated the woman who birthed me, aka my bio-father, was better without me.

My birth-mother, aka, first mom, was better without me.

My Aparents, aka my saviors, were better without me and the reminders I could bring, once I confessed  my childhood (adoptive family) experiences, (the rapes, the molestations, the beatings).

<HUGE BIG BREATH>

My life... it has been an unwanted burden.  A burden others could do without.... all burdens put upon me.

<deep, deep, deeper cleansing breath>

Bizzi: You know over the years I have said some hard things about judges. I would like to ask for some salt to go with my foot. U.K judges have my full respect. Hopefully they get their situation resolved before anything serious happens to a child as a result. But they are doing the right thing. It's the lesser of two evils that has a bouns after long run. The courts are to be a place of truth. If judges feel workers don't respect that they need to respond. 

UK Courts Don't Trust Social Workers

from: medindia.net

Illiteracy has allowed kids to be stolen in Nepal in what is surely shocking news.

Rajan Kumar Nepali did not know he was giving up his two young children when he put his thumbprint on a document handing custody to an orphanage in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu.

By Cassie White / ABC News

The Federal Government has announced Australians will again be allowed to adopt children from Ethiopia.

The Australia-Ethiopia intercountry adoption program was suspended last year over fears Australia could not continue the practice in a manner consistent with its obligations under the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in respect of Intercountry Adoption.

By Bruce Arnold

March 6, 2010 / independent.ie

Tracey Fay's death has shifted public focus in the continuing and unbroken narrative of child abuse and neglect in Ireland. For the past decade, and before that, we have been able to blame the church. Now the blame has shifted, quite markedly, to the State. Her death, and that of many like her, is the result of the State's failure to set up and fund a proper care system.

FEBRUARY 2010

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The review of the Ethiopia-Australia intercountry adoption program was undertaken in accordance
with the Australian Central Authority’s obligation, pursuant to the Commonwealth–State
Agreement, to conduct regular reviews of its programs to ensure compliance with the Hague
Convention on the Protection of Children and Co-operation in respect of Intercountry Adoption
(the Hague Convention). The review commenced in June 2009. Prior to the completion of the
review, the Attorney-General suspended the program due to ongoing concerns and new

When I read Michael Pearl's arrogant response to what he refers to as his "critics" http://pearlchildtraining.blogspot.com/2010/03/michael-pearl-laughs-at-c... yesterday, I became physically ill. I thought to myself, Michael Pearl is insufferable. How wrong to bring up the plastic whip, to relate it to his dogs and chickens, and children. He shows absolutely no remorse. No clarifications. Just arrogance. At first, I thought he will answer someday to his God, you know!

The shady world of adoption

By Thomas Schuler
The Atlantic Times
March 4, 2010

Former EU official Roelie Post campaigns worldwide against foreign adoption. She says the line between foreign adoption and child trafficking is too often blurred. She also sees potential danger in plans to introduce a transnational “European Adoption” authority.

Over the years we have posted extensively about abuse in adoptive families, and within our archives collected information about many different abuse cases. Abuse in adoptive families comes in many shapes and forms, ranging from neglect to deprivation, sexual abuse, exploitation and physical abuse.

When looking at the physical abuse cases, there seem to be two patterns that often emerge. Children, especially babies, beaten or shaken violently, and cases related to so-called "discipline".

It seems from now on, those criticizing the adoption industry need to embrace the phrasology used by those adoption advocates who prefer to use Positive Adoption Language when they write/speak.  Away with child trafficking or illegal adoptions... they look very bad and are not the sort of phrases AP's will want to use.

• Adoption watchdog suppresses Eithiopia findings  (read what the Joint Council of International Children's Services (JCICS) has been doing....)

•  Fly Away Children

How do the children born via in-vitro surrogates do?  Is there still that "Primal Wound"? Jaquie

Senior members of the Obama administration approved the illegal removal of 12 Haitian children from a Port-au-Prince orphanage to Pennsylvania last month even though the children were not up for adoption in the US and some were not orphans.

By Alex Spillius / Daily Telegraph
February 28, 2010

By Robert Chesal / Radio Netherlands Worldwide
February 26, 2010

"There was a knock at the door. I tried to scream but I couldn’t utter a sound." Janne Geraets, now 57, suffered repeated sexual abuse from the age of 11 at the hands of a priest at the Roman Catholic school where he was a boarder.

When an earthquake hit Haiti last month, the newspapers were immediately filled with stories of children needed to be "saved" through adoption, and several governments almost immediately granted permission to remove children from the island.

Today I checked the news and not a single article referred to adoption of children from Chile. Not one.

Why is it that one earthquake immediately triggers the drive to adopt "orphans", while the other doesn't?

Oh, I forgot, Haiti already had a flourishing adoption business before their earthquake, while Chilean adoptions are rare.

February 26, 2010 / soschildrensvillages.ca

Though Uganda and Liberia have difficulty in stopping outright crimes in child trafficking, the problems of Haiti and Zimbabwe are more complex.

By Elizabeth de Alwis
Posted: 02/26/2010 01:00:00 AM PST

Bangkok Post
February 24, 2010

Diplomats in Nepal on Wednesday urged the government to tighten controls on international adoptions after the parents of a child put up for adoption said they had not given their permission.