There has been a lot of talk about corruption with international adoption and agencies about photo listing children not available for international adoption. Or knowingly listing children from countries that only allows blind referrals.
When you do a blind referral you are not falling in love with a picture on a computer screen as you don't know which child you are adopting until you are in country and given your referrals which is based on a general description you agreed to. Such as gender, the age range and disability. Then and only then are you shown pictures of children your matched to.
Out of over 50 blogs I have read only 2 were blind referrals. They agreed not to disclose personal or identifying information about the child and not to post pictures online until AFTER the adoption. And guess what no information was shared until AFTER the adoption. They were told not to photograph other children and they didn't . During their visits they focused on the child they came to see and the adopting families were educated on DS from prior experience. They didn't go into the adoption clueless.
And then there was some families who posted dozens of pictures of other children in the orphanage . I wish the SDA and Judge could of seen/read the blog of one particular adopting mother who purposely exploited other children in the orphanage she was adopting from. The woman was told not to photograph her child until the court date as the child was not legally hers yet and not to photograph other children in the orphanage. In one picture she lifted a little girls skirt to show a bruise on the upper thigh (around the panty line). The kids might be orphans but they do deserve dignity.
Her commentary for the orphanage was like an old " feed the children" infomercial regarding the children. I realize that in her little mind she was trying to raise awareness to get help for more of the kids but it could make it more difficult for others adopting in that region.
What are your thoughts in this?
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