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[nutmegdealer]

BAXTER, Minn. - Beechestore and Rosecarline, two Haitian teenagers in the throes of puberty, were not supposed to be adopted.

At the end of last year, American authorities denied the petition of a couple here, Marc and Teresa Stroot, to adopt the brother and sister after their biological father opposed relinquishing custody.

Reluctantly, Mr. and Mrs

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[kinda_famous]

“It’s definitely a miracle,” Mrs. Stroot said of their arrival here, “because this wasn’t going to happen.”

Fuck off. It wasn't going to happen because their biological father didn't want it to happen and a deadly national disaster is not a ~miracle just because you got what you somehow seem to feel you were entitled to: other people's fucking children.

One Kansas lawyer said he satisfied a judge’s questions about whether the Haitian boy his clients had adopted was an orphan by broadcasting announcements on Haitian radio stations over two days, urging any relatives of the child to come forward if they wanted to claim him.

What. The. Hell. Two days? Like really? Do I need to go tell this judge that a child is not a puppy?! FFS.

“That’s the thing that’s so different about Haiti,” Ms. Groen said. “It’s not full of unwanted children. It’s full of children whose families are too poor to provide for them.”But you're still going to adopt them anyway, even though you know two of them have families that love and want them but just aren't

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I wonder if the kids told anyone that they'd rather live with their relatives? Beechestore and Rosecarline are old enough to have their own opinions on things, and they could live with their dad! Has anyone asked them what they want? Well, I'm sure they've been asked, but has anyone really listened?

[politicette]

The white American Christian culture of international adoption is really one of the most repulsive things. I wish I could deconstruct it more intelligently, but I am the opposite of articulate, so. :P

“I feel a weird sense of survivor’s guilt,” said Dawn Shelton of Minnesota, who hopes to adopt the siblings. “So many people died in Haiti, and I was able to get the life I’ve wanted.”

No, that's not survivor's guilt. That's you being abominably entitled and basically fuck you, Dawn. I don't even understand how you can say something like that and yet fail to recognize how busted that attitude is.

[misters]

I'd like to know why the hell she has survivor's guilt when she didn't, you know, survive through the earthquake.

[rkt]

that's where i stopped reading. because i just couldn't.

[recognitions]

Oy.

[pandaseal]

What the fuck? I'm not surprised, but I am angry.