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