tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6678871511713491095.post5639339955211929449..comments2018-08-24T21:38:21.548-04:00Comments on Invisible Kids: Haitian Orphans and American OrphansUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6678871511713491095.post-15889832025562685332010-01-27T22:19:00.074-05:002010-01-27T22:19:00.074-05:00Thanks to all of you for your comments. Lori, I l...Thanks to all of you for your comments. Lori, I love your description of your mom. People like your parents truly are the 'life-changers' and unsung heroes of the foster care system. The same heart that brings them to foster is the very heart that is often bruised and broken. I'm convinced the only way we will improve the current system is for ordinary people to join this discussion and help craft solutions. Thanks to all of you! HollyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6678871511713491095.post-9175769760491654762010-01-27T18:32:01.883-05:002010-01-27T18:32:01.883-05:00This is a very interesting perspective, and I thin...This is a very interesting perspective, and I think you're right on about the beaurocratic nightmare with the U.S. foster system. My parents took in foster children for ten years, and my sainted mother, a pediatric RN specialist with a huge heart, was finally so burned out and heartbroken by the experience that she hung up her hat and stepped away from the system. We would definitely be more likely to consider domestic adoption/fostering if we felt like we would actually be recieving support.Lorihttp://ourownrooney.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6678871511713491095.post-63507166264752251802010-01-26T18:39:18.587-05:002010-01-26T18:39:18.587-05:00My family adopts domestically through Bethany. Our...My family adopts domestically through Bethany. Our state in particular makes foster care adoption a nightmare. It is against what is "allowable" to homeschool a foster care child. We homeschool. We are adament about homeschooling. We would only be eligible for children over the age of 9. Our biological daughter is 8 and I am only 30. I am not prepared or equipped for an older child.We would love to open our home to a foster care child, but the risk is too great. Our sons adoption took eleven months to terminate legal risk. That was difficult, BUT it was through another state. We are preparing for that again, but through Bethany, not the state.The bureacracy is a nightmare.shellie radernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6678871511713491095.post-70824781083926890332010-01-26T15:31:09.006-05:002010-01-26T15:31:09.006-05:00Great thoughts Holly. Wish I could say that I had...Great thoughts Holly. Wish I could say that I had some answers, but unfortunately I have as many questions as you do. I think that people think of kids in other countries as in worse condition than our own children, we have missions from other countries showing pictures, TV commercials. Our children live in America - how could they possibly be off as bad as these children? Maybe because they don't get as much press time? It's just like abandoned or abused pets. Give them press time and the people come out of the woodwork, wanting to 'save' them, in the mean time other pets are being put to sleep because we don't think of them.<br />Don't stop what you're doing. Remember - it starts with one person and then it just grows and grows.<br />Blessings. AnnaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6678871511713491095.post-66413174126630451132010-01-26T11:24:36.695-05:002010-01-26T11:24:36.695-05:00I believe Hillary Clinton is as committed to Ameri...I believe Hillary Clinton is as committed to American children waiting for permanency as she is helping Haitian children. She can only do so much herself.<br />What it takes is other people stepping up, getting rid of their misconceptions about older waiting children, and following through on learning and adopting them to provide a safe, nurturing and loving home.<br />If they knew the statistics on what happens to kids who "age out" without being adopted - the number who wind up homeless after two years, the number who don't go on to get a college degree, etc. - maybe they stop and consider helping a child who has dreams and hopes for a bright future, just like any other person.<br />It's much easier to sit idle and hope someone else steps up. Why not take a chance and learn more about kids waiting for permanency in your own back yard?<br />Become an adoptive parent to an older child - they are looking for love and caring, too!John Cummingshttp://www.hckids.orgnoreply@blogger.com