I grew up in Idaho. I grew up Baptist. I knew of Haiti only by "missionaries" at our church.
I no longer live in Idaho. I am no longer Baptist (not sure I ever really was). I have adopted.
These people in Haiti, that claim to be missionaries, that tried to take the 'orphans' while ignoring international laws make me want to puke.
I have no mercy here. They should be in prison until they are trained to use the internet and have fully read:
(1) international adoption laws
(2) the debate on whether international adoption is even ethical
(3) the debate on whether adoption is even ethical
(4) the turmoil that brings many people to adoption after infertility.
(5) the educated choice people make about not having a child, but adopting one.
(6) the blogs of those waiting to adopt.
(7) the blogs of those who have adopted.
(8) the blogs of those who have been adopted.
Then they should consider if they want to adopt, or if they were stealing children for someone else to adopt, or if they are stealing these children from their parents, or if they are stealing these children from their heritage, and then they should be tried by the courts or live in jail.
Ignorance on this level is unacceptable. If you can read, type and have the ability to request information from beyond just your "leader" then you may participate in society. If you don't have these skills, then stay with your parents, in school and keep learning until you do (these are white Idahoans we are talking about, they have the choice to stay home with parents).
One night, my son cried in my arms because I couldn't give him the moon. It was irrational. It was a hard one to explain to him. He was a child: I understood his irrationality and cried with him. These people are adults. They are irrational. They are affecting other people's lives. It is not understandable to me. May their God give me the ability to forgive their irrational level of ignorance or arrogance of the laws established to protect children who need protection.
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14 years ago
2 comments:
Ironic that you post this blog. Mike and I have been going round on this because he says I think their intentions were good so therefore they should be allowed to be free. I on the other hand say there is a right and wrong way and right and wrong reasons to do things even when you think your intentions are good and you are ultimately helping someone and I think Haiti is right to do everything possible in this circumstance to protect those littlest citizens without a voice regardless of the intent of these people. If they knew they were right they wouldn't have been sneaking them out of the country. They were taking advantage of a situation and I fully believe that regardless of whether the children would have been treated well or not. That isn't the point. On this you and I agree completely and it will be up God to decipher their rights and wrongs once the government of Haiti is done! I get tired of the arrogance of anyone who thinks they can justify actions by riding in on a white horse as if they are the savior and expecting the world to just let them do whatever they want in the interest of what they deem best for someone else and those that follow them blindly.
It's a tough one. I think it really got under my skin that the lead "missionary" knew they were taking kids from families with such limited options that they would be willing to hope for a better opportunity for their kids by giving them up. Clearly a family in crisis and well deserving support. A loss that is staggering. But we'll never know if those families would have been split forever, and if it would have worked.
Good intentions are not enough when you are affecting so many people on such a significant individual level. Ripping apart families, potentially for the survival of a child. Not something to do lightly.
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