Celebrity adoptions and the adoption standard

May 11, 8:45 PMAdoption ExaminerMarcie Pickelsimer

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Save the Children and Unicef both believe that children are better off in their home countries. Save the Children has gone so far as to say that international adoption can actually  "exacerbate the problem it hopes to solve...the very existence of orphanages encourages poor parents to abandon children in the hope that they will have a better life."

So, are we, adoptive parents, suppose to leave children in orphanages so they can sleep 10 children to a room, eat cold and non-nutritious food, and in my son's case, be so neglected and abused that he still has Post Traumatic Stress?

Unicef argues for the creation of foster care but looks the other way when they know that in most countries foster care does not work as well as adoption. Sure, there are plenty of cases of kidnapping and extortion. We all know there is corruption. Fix it.

But, what about the best interest of the child? Shoudn't that be the standard? Both my sons needed a home. We gave it to them. We didn't save them, we didn't kidnap them from their birth parents. We adopted children who were in need of parents and in need of a home.

Were the orphans? No. Did they need us? Yes.