Posting pictures online to help a child get adopted is like a double edged sword. Even if you handle it correctly you still might get cut. Posting pictures has good and bad points. One of the good things is raising awareness and possibly finding a family for that particular child.
Some of the bad things are committing to a child because of a picture you seen on website & finding out later on child is not available for adoption. And had never been available for adoption. But yet the picture is posted illegally. Can you imagine seeing your biological child on a website that advocates adoption and you had not relinquished your rights? How would you feel if you sent your child to an orphanage for an education or to keep them safe and visit the child regularly , just to have strangers condemn you for it? To say the child would be better off with them?
What if you are a child in an orphanage with two of your siblings and a stranger wants to adopt them but not you? Would that make you feel like you're just not good enough especially when the PAP asked to have your family is broken apart?
This did happen and this adoption angered me. The special needs child was photolisted on a website illegally and during the formal referral the PAP was told of the sibling group. The PAP did visit the kids and decide they only wanted 2 of the 3 kids. Requesting the judge issue an order of separation, which he did. I was under the impression the purpose of adoption was family.
Photolisting can have long term effects both good and bad especially in countries that prohibit it. Russia has already banned international adoptions because of bad or Abusive AP from the USA. One day some other EE countries might follow Russia's lead or make it harder for international Adoption because of PAP posting pictures after being told not to...it could happen......
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