Shopping for Change
Lest everyone think that we're all just a bunch of Communistic satanic haters over here, I share a bright spot amongst all the darkness. A big gold star to Lindsay Giambattista who leveraged her talent for shopping and teen fashion savvy into a place where foster kids can feel some love.
Lindsay, age 17, oversees a boutique offering clothing to girls in foster care, handling $1 million worth of donated apparel last year from designers, retailers and people from as far away as Tokyo.
The idea started snowballing after Lindsay looked at 10 trash bags filled with her own ...
Something’s Rotten in the State of Pennsylvania
Don't take my word for it. Just ask Neils of the Pound Pup Legacy mega-adoption-website-blog. According to this crusading and data-driven site, Pennsylvania has a disproportionate number of adoption agencies compared to other states. Forget all that high-minded legalistic talk of "dealing in humanity," there's money to be made and many good Germans willing to look the other way.
According to Neils
With a total of 206 Pennsylvania has far more agencies than any other state. California, which is almost three times the size of Pennsylvania has 73 agencies less and ...
Womb Outsourcing Threatens International Adoption
I guess it was only a matter of time before a simple straightforward technological solution was found to eliminate the abuses in international adoption. Today's New York Times highlights the Rent-a-Womb outsourcing movement in India.
An enterprise known as reproductive outsourcing is a new but rapidly expanding business in India. Clinics that provide surrogate mothers for foreigners say they have recently been inundated with requests from the United States and Europe, as word spreads of India's mix of skilled medical professionals, relatively liberal laws and low ...
Global Corruption in the Global Village
The Joint Council on International Children's Services has a worldwide reach into some of the darkest corners of the child trafficking industry. Apparently so does Masha Allen's not-really adoption agency unless you believe Deborah Spivack, Families thru International Adoption.
A concerned reader of this blog recently forwarded a large number of emails purportedly from FTIA's [CENSORED] Senior Coordinator [CENSORED].
In these emails from 2006, [CENSORED] details her close relationship with longtime JCICS past-president and board member Deb Murphy-Scheumann.
In a message ...
Pedo-Parents and the Child Welfare System
Late last year, [Kid's Voice](http://www.kidsvoice.org/default.aspx) executive director Scott Hollander, "argued that just because a person is on the Megan's Law Web site it doesn't mean they are a danger to their child."
In a [televised interview](http://www.wpxi.com/news/14524742/detail.html#) on Pittsburgh's WPXI, Hollander--whose child advocacy organization approved Masha Allen's placement with and adoption by Faith Allen--admitted that "Megan's Law . . . raises a huge red flag that has to be investigated."
Kid's Voice, which reps itself as "a voice of hope, a voice ...
Focus on Adoption – a Rogues Gallery
Let me keep it as simple as possible. Since as early as December 5, 2004, the "intercountry adoption advocacy organization" Focus on Adoption has been a virtual rogues gallery of the leading unethical playas in international adoption.
On December 5, 2004, the FOA website listed Jeannene Smith as the organization's treasurer. Smith's name, along with Keith Wallace of Families thru International Adoption, appeared prominently in Masha Allen's October 7, 2003 Child Profile Study Report. Clearly Smith, along with Wallace, knew exactly what had become of "child porn star" ...
Cambria County Casualty
Yesterday I learned that the international adoption agency most responsible for Masha Allen's placement with pedophile Matthew Mancuso (originally known as Reaching Out Thru International Adoption [ROTIA] and recently renamed ChildPromise) is discontinuing operations.
A message from CP's executive director Sonia Baxter states that "due to our recent sad announcement regarding ceasing adoption activities, we are receiving many calls. Our goal is to insure that there's a calm and organized process to transferring cases and completing adoptions."
Tragically, this is just ...