Haitian orphans with parents

[SoCalDem]

The other day, an orphanage worker was being interviewed, and she uttered that phrase. The interviewer asked if she meant foreign parents waiting to get the children out, and she said "No, there are many children here at the orphanage with Haitian parents. They are just too poor to raise their children"

Haitian children may be the "cottage industry" that keeps all these church organizations in "business". On one hand they preach to the faithful about how children are a blessing, and they should have more of them....and on the other hand they end up with an endless "supply" of babies & toddlers to "market" to the faithful back home in the US.

There was a little vignette about a family that had adopted 4 kids (3 teens & a younger one). They had been "processing" the adoptions for FOUR YEARS.

I'd like to see an investigation into all these "orphanages", once the dust settles, and would really like to know if this is more of a business than a "calling".

Keeping poor people poor, and eagerly accepting their unaffordable offspring, is evil. I wonder too, if the poor people "turning in" their young children really understand that the people taking in their kids, are being paid to "market" their kids like some commodity.

Many religious organizations have a permanent footprint in chaotic places, and say it's to do "good works", but if the idea is just to warehouse kids and keep them there for YEARS, as frustrated would-be-parents pay and pay and pay to have more documents processed, over and over (taking years), how is this benefitting the children?

[WolverineDG]

1. Try looking up how you go about adopting a child from Haiti

there was a story the other day about a family reunited with a child they adopted 6 years ago when he was ten, but because of civil unrest and a change in the adoption laws, it took years to finalize his case.

But if you'd rather just bash churches for trying to do something to help the poor in Haiti, keep on truckin'

dg