International Adoption: The White Woman’s Burden. Agency staff picture is worth a thousand words
Just a morning thought on International Adoption and American foreign policy, such as it is. I had never heard of MLJ Adoptions before this morning, until I ran across it on a re-Tweet 30 Things to do During Adoption Month. Since I’m lazy and didn’t make a list of things to do for NAAM I’m ready to take on an assignment. Not content with telling people to set up book displays or make a “life book” for their kid, MLJ busy-ness is more specific and time-consuming. If I’m not promoting Orphan Sunday, subjecting my friends and neighbors to Stuck, raising $$$ for other people’s adoptions or setting up an adoption booth at a local high school’s Friday night football game to drum up producers and consumers, I’m not doing my fair share to spread the Good News of Adoption. Why NMJ has even created a handy-dandy selection of MLJ adoption banners and pictures for my FB page. Aimed at the crunchy social justice crowd the selections include the consumerist: Adopt Globallly — Love Locally By globally MLJ means adopt from our program. MLJ’s grabby fingers reach into Bulgaria, Congo (oh! oh! just closed!), Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Samoa, and Ukraine. It Continue Reading →