Third Annual Demons of Adoption Awards

Each year Pound Pup Legacy presents the Demons of Adoption Award to raise a voice against adoption propaganda and the self congratulatory practices of the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute's annual Angels in Adoption Awards^TM

Until October 30 you will have the opportunity to vote for the recipient of this year's award.

The nominees are:

• Adoptions First for offering of a free birth mothers package;
• Athanasios Kollias aka Teo for the involvement in various Guatemalan child trafficking cases;
• Barnardos for promoting the removal of children and have them adopted as the solution to family breakdown;
• Bethany Christian Services for using coercive tactics obtaining infants for their customers;
• Deborra-Lee Furness for pushing laxer regulations in inter-country adoption;
• Harry and Bertha Holt for starting the placement of "special needs children" who are truly not adoptable, into the homes of already huge families;
• Independent Adoption Center for plugging their business on WE tv's Adoption Diaries, making them the non-denominational Bethany;
• Joint Council on International Children's Services for supporting temporary movement of foreign children to America because such trial-basis "exchange" programs "help" the adoption process;
• LDS Family Services for using coercive tactics in obtaining infants for adoption and for not respecting paternal rights;
• Scott and Karen Banks for child trafficking, coercive adoption practices and the abandonment of their adopted children;
• The Dutch Ministry of Justice for preventing research into corrupt adoption practices in China, because of diplomatic and business relations with that country;
• The Malawi Government for allowing Madonna to adopt Mercy James;

The orginal nominations can be found here.