Mistake

I made a mistake this morning. I was reading an article online about the Russian government temporarily shutting down adoptions to the U.S.  My mistake... reading the comments people made about this issue.  Oh my!!  I am amazed at what some people will write on a public forum.  It really was unbelievable and appalling.  The sad thing to me was the number of people decrying international adoption all together stating that we need to take care of "our own" and that people just adopt internationally because they can't qualify to adopt domestically.  Really?? Is that why I've had home visits, turned over tax returns, gone for medical exams, been fingerprinted multiple times, filled out endless numbers of papers... because it's easy? There are approximately 150,000 children waiting to be adopted in the US. There are more than 100 million orphans in the world.  They ALL need to be adopted and given parents to love, nurture and care for them.  There are pros and cons to adopting internationally or domestically.  They each have their own hoops to jump through and unique challenges.  I'm a big fan of both and don't really have a preference. I don't know the whole situation with this woman that shipped her child back to Russia.  Obviously things went wrong all the way around and the system failed this child.  But let's not let this one case cause us to fear or put off international adoptions all together.  There are too many children at stake. 

I ran across this website the other day from another woman's blog...http://sixtyfeet.org/.  This organization is trying to help a group of children in Uganda living in some of the most deplorable conditions you've ever seen.  It's a powerful call to action.  How can we let this go on in our world?

James 1:27 "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world."