Wednesday, April 3, 2013

A rant about some adoption blogs

Ok, today I'm not going to talk about my pathetic job situation. Today I'm going to talk about adoption blogs.
 As a member of the adoption "triad", I read a lot of adoption blogs. But there is a certain type of adoption blog that really, really bugs me. It's the Christian adoption blog;,you the ones that talk about "one less orphan" and "God's plan." Yuck. Did God really plan for a child to lose his/her family, be placed in an orphanage, then taken by strangers to a foreign land? Usually the child doesn't even get to keep their original name. I'm not going to link to any specific blogs. I am not trying to hurt anyone or be mean, or be a troll. I'm just venting. I know when I bring up a blog, and there's a quote from the bible in the header (usually it's James 1:27, Christian adopters love that one) that it's not a blog I will read. I just can't stand the holier-than-thou-ness of them. And most disturbing to me is, the child is expected to do all the adapting. There is no sense of the family making any changes or moves toward being a transracial family. It is- we are a white Christian family taking in this poor Ehthiopian/Chinese/Indian fill-in-the-blank child, and he/she will conform to fit into our already formed family. And be grateful (after all, look at all the fundraising we had to do to bring her/him "home"!). I find these adopters' savior complexes and their sense of entitlement (though they all deny both) nauseating.
I sound harsh, I know. But I just can't stand the self-righteousness of some of these people. They are so convinced they are right, and that they are better than everyone else. By the way, in the bible where it says to take care of orphans and widows, that does not mean buy a poor woman's baby and take it half way across the world. Just sayin'.
Ok, rant concluded.

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