Comments on: A Revised Article http://www.carolinahopeadoption.org/blog/archives/153/ the blog of carolina hope christian adoption agency Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:11:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Mark Diebel http://www.carolinahopeadoption.org/blog/archives/153/#comment-920 Mark Diebel Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:06:57 +0000 http://www.carolinahopeadoption.org/blog/archives/153#comment-920 I saw that you interviewed Sherrie Eldridge... please take her comments to heart about the impact of adoption on the child. I grant that your program is theoretically trying to reach those children that are indeed "orphans"... however, many of the children that wind up in orphanages are not really orphans at all, but temporarily placed there. There is also a great deal of deception and abuse involved... here I'm referring to the mom's. Part of the ministry that can be seen to arise from James' Letter is one which discriminates each situation and really identifies those children who really have no other recourse except adoption. In some instances... or perhaps again this is a further examination of the ministry... the children should be preferentially adopted locally. Perhaps one can locate local families to adopt the child. International adoptions, as I think you are learning, have more complex character than local ones... and transracial implications are indeed real. In some instances, perhaps help can be offered the mom (or family) to enable them to keep the child. I saw that you interviewed Sherrie Eldridge… please take her comments to heart about the impact of adoption on the child. I grant that your program is theoretically trying to reach those children that are indeed “orphans”… however, many of the children that wind up in orphanages are not really orphans at all, but temporarily placed there.

There is also a great deal of deception and abuse involved… here I’m referring to the mom’s. Part of the ministry that can be seen to arise from James’ Letter is one which discriminates each situation and really identifies those children who really have no other recourse except adoption. In some instances… or perhaps again this is a further examination of the ministry… the children should be preferentially adopted locally. Perhaps one can locate local families to adopt the child. International adoptions, as I think you are learning, have more complex character than local ones… and transracial implications are indeed real. In some instances, perhaps help can be offered the mom (or family) to enable them to keep the child.

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