Comments on: “Medical Adoptions” http://culturematters.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/medical-adoptions/ Sun, 03 Jan 2010 11:11:25 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Mark http://culturematters.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/medical-adoptions/#comment-3414 Mark Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:15:58 +0000 http://culturematters.wordpress.com/?p=313#comment-3414 thanks for the compliments :) the worst part about the "is it real or not" discussion is the fact that it was apparently brought up at a U.N. forum on child trafficking. the saddest part is that people actually wonder if its real or not. about 1000 adoption agencies sent nasty e-mails concerned that it could be mistaken for being real and cause foreign governments to respond. that was disturbing to me and i am already pretty twisted. my stance is that everyone is better served when the conversation is happening, rather than when someone who says something is silenced, simply because someone finds it "offensive". i am offended by countless things... but i am at least wise enough to know those are personal issues that i need to deal with... not things that i need to change in others and the world so i can feel better. thanks for the compliments :)

the worst part about the “is it real or not” discussion is the fact that it was apparently brought up at a U.N. forum on child trafficking.

the saddest part is that people actually wonder if its real or not. about 1000 adoption agencies sent nasty e-mails concerned that it could be mistaken for being real and cause foreign governments to respond. that was disturbing to me and i am already pretty twisted.

my stance is that everyone is better served when the conversation is happening, rather than when someone who says something is silenced, simply because someone finds it “offensive”. i am offended by countless things… but i am at least wise enough to know those are personal issues that i need to deal with… not things that i need to change in others and the world so i can feel better.

]]> By: Jessica Walton http://culturematters.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/medical-adoptions/#comment-3348 Jessica Walton Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:14:56 +0000 http://culturematters.wordpress.com/?p=313#comment-3348 I just came across this website through Jovan's tag on the ANSA list. I'm studying transnational adoption for my PhD at Newcastle Uni and I was myself adopted from Korea to the United States. I agree, the spoof website is painfully hilarious but it also sickened me because of the painful reality of child trafficking and those children that are adopted and experience horrible abuse. The website really lays on the parody by criticising international adoption as a privitised process, adoption agencies as for-profit businesses and children as commodities that can be packaged and chosen to suit the needs of others. And then of course underlying all of it are claims of altruism and humanitarianism. I'm sure the website fooled countless people who filled out the questionnaire, which is worrying and disturbing... Anyway, interesting website, thanks for posting about it. I just came across this website through Jovan’s tag on the ANSA list. I’m studying transnational adoption for my PhD at Newcastle Uni and I was myself adopted from Korea to the United States.

I agree, the spoof website is painfully hilarious but it also sickened me because of the painful reality of child trafficking and those children that are adopted and experience horrible abuse. The website really lays on the parody by criticising international adoption as a privitised process, adoption agencies as for-profit businesses and children as commodities that can be packaged and chosen to suit the needs of others. And then of course underlying all of it are claims of altruism and humanitarianism.

I’m sure the website fooled countless people who filled out the questionnaire, which is worrying and disturbing…

Anyway, interesting website, thanks for posting about it.

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