| Hardly a day seems to pass by nowadays without | | | | a massive earthquake. |
| some emissary and entourage from a well-heeled | | | | In itself there is nothing wrong with this supposed |
| location somewhere in the west jetting off to some | | | | outpouring of communal generosity but sometimes |
| third world country and returning days later having | | | | you have to try and view these activities from the |
| effectively bought themselves a shining bright new | | | | other side to obtain a better rounded picture of what |
| baby. These actions in themselves has in a rather | | | | is exactly the best course of action to take here. |
| brutal way highlighted one of the great iniquities of | | | | Adoption experts say the best thing people can do is |
| modern life | | | | to donate money to causes that directly help the |
| It is hard not to view these incidents as just this | | | | children. They say it's wrong to take a traumatized |
| year's fashion statement on behalf of the rich and | | | | child away from the environment that they have |
| famous. | | | | grown up in. "Adoptions, especially inter-country ones, |
| Last year it was "let's all campaign against the | | | | are inappropriate during the emergency phase as |
| brutality of hunting animals for their fur" and this year | | | | children are better placed being cared for by their |
| it's a case of lets take our obscene amounts of | | | | wider families and the communities they know," said |
| money and go and buy a baby from Africa. | | | | the charity Save the Children in a statement released |
| There are several issues on different levels here and | | | | Jan. 6, 2005. International Adoption needs to be well |
| on one hand we have to accept that it is every | | | | planned "The last thing they need to do is be rushed |
| child's right to live in a happy, stable and loving family | | | | away to some foreign land," said Cory Barron of |
| unit where possible, a right that is sadly all too lacking | | | | Children's Hope International, an American adoption |
| for about 95 percent of the worlds children. On the | | | | agency. "We have to think of the child first." |
| other hand you have to accept that in some cases | | | | Perhaps that is the problem with so many designer |
| money isn't necessarily the Universal Panacea for the | | | | International Adoptions nowadays the parties |
| World ills that we sometimes believe it to be. | | | | involved don't necessarily think of the interests of |
| More often than not there is an upsurge in this sort | | | | the child first rather a case of satisfying the maternal |
| of activity right after some natural disaster of almost | | | | longings of people who should know better and most |
| biblical proportions has wiped out either entire | | | | cases don't. |
| coastlines or communities built out of brick living on | | | | Perhaps now would be a good time to start to |
| some geophysical fault line somewhere have suffered | | | | implement and effect that change. |