Adoption targets
September 8th, 2008Adoption targets
SharedBook Adoption MemoryBook
Kitchen:
Capture everything from the waiting process to the child's first welcome into the home, Add your photos, stories and comments from family and friends online to create your personalized book, Place an order and a professionally-printed, 30-pg. full-color book will be delivered to you in 7-10 days, Pages are acid-free archival quality, 7.25Hx5.25Wx1.25D"
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Capture everything from the waiting process to the child's first welcome into the home, Add your photos, stories and comments from family and friends online to create your personalized book, Place an order and a professionally-printed, 30-pg. full-color book will be delivered to you in 7-10 days, Pages are acid-free archival quality, 7.25Hx5.25Wx1.25D"
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SharedBook Boy Adoption MemoryBook
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Capture everything from the waiting process to your child's first welcome into the home in the Adoption MemoryBook, Add your photos, stories and comments from family and friends online to create your personalized book, Place an order and a professionally-printed, 30-pg. full-color book will be delivered to you in 7-10 days, Pages are acid-free archival quality, 7.25Hx5.25Wx1.25D"
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Kitchen:
Capture everything from the waiting process to your child's first welcome into the home in the Adoption MemoryBook, Add your photos, stories and comments from family and friends online to create your personalized book, Place an order and a professionally-printed, 30-pg. full-color book will be delivered to you in 7-10 days, Pages are acid-free archival quality, 7.25Hx5.25Wx1.25D"
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SharedBook Girl Adoption MemoryBook
Kitchen:
Capture everything from the waiting process to your child's first welcome into the home in the Adoption MemoryBook, Add your photos, stories and comments from family and friends online to create your personalized book, Place an order and a professionally-printed, 30-pg. full-color book will be delivered to you in 7-10 days, Pages are acid-free archival quality, 7.25Hx5.25Wx1.25D"
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Kitchen:
Capture everything from the waiting process to your child's first welcome into the home in the Adoption MemoryBook, Add your photos, stories and comments from family and friends online to create your personalized book, Place an order and a professionally-printed, 30-pg. full-color book will be delivered to you in 7-10 days, Pages are acid-free archival quality, 7.25Hx5.25Wx1.25D"
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Hasbro Toys CHLD FRR Collectible Honey Bear
FurReal Friends - Includes his very own special adoption certificate and botle!
Toy: Includes your very own special adoption certificate and bottle!, Acts just like a real bear cub!, Moves and Makes Sounds, "Feed" him his bottle., He lifts his head and opens his eyes!
Company: Hasbro Toys
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FurReal Friends - Includes his very own special adoption certificate and botle!Toy: Includes your very own special adoption certificate and bottle!, Acts just like a real bear cub!, Moves and Makes Sounds, "Feed" him his bottle., He lifts his head and opens his eyes!
Company: Hasbro Toys
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Hasbro Toys CHLD FRR Collectible Yllw Duckling
Includes your very own special adoption certificate and bottle. Take care of me, and we'll be best friends!
Toy: FurReal Friends Newborn Duckling, I really "come to life"!, I make "real" duckling sounds!, I raise my head and open my bean!, "Feed" me my bottle!
Company: Hasbro Toys
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Includes your very own special adoption certificate and bottle. Take care of me, and we'll be best friends!Toy: FurReal Friends Newborn Duckling, I really "come to life"!, I make "real" duckling sounds!, I raise my head and open my bean!, "Feed" me my bottle!
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Cabbage Patch Kids Splash Baby - Caucasian
Toy:
These babies can float with their floating shower ring; each one is dressed in colorful and fun bathing suits, Adorable animal showerhead really squirts water for hours of splash`n play fun time, Just like a real baby, you won't know if it's a boy or a girl until it arrives, Includes a special name, birth certificate and adoption papers, For ages 2yrs. and up
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Toy:
These babies can float with their floating shower ring; each one is dressed in colorful and fun bathing suits, Adorable animal showerhead really squirts water for hours of splash`n play fun time, Just like a real baby, you won't know if it's a boy or a girl until it arrives, Includes a special name, birth certificate and adoption papers, For ages 2yrs. and up
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Customer-Focused Business Practice Adoption: A Comparison of Private and Public Sector Implementations
This is a AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSONAFB OH report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A010324. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: This thesis evaluates a variety of documented cases of customer- focused business practice initiatives to discern common principles of implementation within the private and public sectors. The business practices Quality, Activity-Based Costing (ABC), Customer Profitability Analysis (CPA), and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) were found to be the major techniques utilized over the past three decades. Cases were collected which documented implementation of these customer-focused business practices in the private and public sectors. Using grounded theory methodology, the implementations were analyzed for emerging concepts. The concepts uncovered in this study were further analyzed through a comparison of private and public sector implementations. This research revealed similarities and differences between the implementations in the private and public sectors and provides a framework of common generalizable principles for further testing. The concepts which emerged are of particular interest to government managers seeking improvement in their organization. Managers can use the information discovered in this research to increase their knowledge of a basic conceptual framework in which implementations of customer-focused business practices were conducted.
Spiral-bound: 126 pages
Company: Storming Media (2004)
ISBN: 1423516893
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This is a AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSONAFB OH report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A010324. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: This thesis evaluates a variety of documented cases of customer- focused business practice initiatives to discern common principles of implementation within the private and public sectors. The business practices Quality, Activity-Based Costing (ABC), Customer Profitability Analysis (CPA), and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) were found to be the major techniques utilized over the past three decades. Cases were collected which documented implementation of these customer-focused business practices in the private and public sectors. Using grounded theory methodology, the implementations were analyzed for emerging concepts. The concepts uncovered in this study were further analyzed through a comparison of private and public sector implementations. This research revealed similarities and differences between the implementations in the private and public sectors and provides a framework of common generalizable principles for further testing. The concepts which emerged are of particular interest to government managers seeking improvement in their organization. Managers can use the information discovered in this research to increase their knowledge of a basic conceptual framework in which implementations of customer-focused business practices were conducted.Spiral-bound: 126 pages
Company: Storming Media (2004)
ISBN: 1423516893
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Study to Assess Progress in the Adoption and Implementation of Health Goals and Targets at the Regional and Local Levels
Author: Tom; Barnes, Ruth Rathwell
Paperback: 84 pages Import
Company: Nuffield Institute for Health, University of Leeds/Department of Health (1993)
ISBN: 1871977614
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Paperback: 84 pages Import
Company: Nuffield Institute for Health, University of Leeds/Department of Health (1993)
ISBN: 1871977614
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Euro adoption and Maastricht criteria: Rules or discretion? [An article from: Economic Systems]
This digital document is a journal article from Economic Systems, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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In connection with the prospective euro adoption by the new EU members, the issue of how strictly to enforce the Maastricht criteria for joining the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has been discussed for some time. Arguments have been made in favor of a more flexible interpretation of some Maastricht criteria to take into account the specific conditions of the new member states (NMS). This paper makes a case for a more flexible interpretation of the Maastricht inflation criterion and proposes a different specification. Further, it examines the compatibility of inflation and exchange rate Maastricht targets and argues that under the specific circumstances of euro adoption, and taking into account the way these targets are defined, meeting both of them during a limited period of time should not pose a problem. Finally, the paper argues that both for short-term cyclical and long-term sustainability reasons, the NMS may aim at somewhat more ambitious fiscal targets before euro adoption than required by the Maastricht fiscal criteria.
Author: J. Jonas
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This digital document is a journal article from Economic Systems, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Description:
In connection with the prospective euro adoption by the new EU members, the issue of how strictly to enforce the Maastricht criteria for joining the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has been discussed for some time. Arguments have been made in favor of a more flexible interpretation of some Maastricht criteria to take into account the specific conditions of the new member states (NMS). This paper makes a case for a more flexible interpretation of the Maastricht inflation criterion and proposes a different specification. Further, it examines the compatibility of inflation and exchange rate Maastricht targets and argues that under the specific circumstances of euro adoption, and taking into account the way these targets are defined, meeting both of them during a limited period of time should not pose a problem. Finally, the paper argues that both for short-term cyclical and long-term sustainability reasons, the NMS may aim at somewhat more ambitious fiscal targets before euro adoption than required by the Maastricht fiscal criteria.
Author: J. Jonas
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Company: Elsevier (2006-12-01)
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Adoption ban targets gay couples, critics say - Los Angeles Times
Anne Shelley and Robin Ross are unwinding after a jam-packed day of ferrying 4-year-old daughter Eva Mae from preschool to ice skating lessons to speech therapy. (more...)
Adoption Ban Targets Gay Couples, Critics Say
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Open Question: Help with Geography??? please?
1. What approach to development did the Brundtland Commission propose? (1 point)
high density development
sustainable development
slow growth development
high impact development
2. A person who adapts an anthropocentric view
(1 point)
views environmental growth as economic and material growth.
is concerned with maintaining biodiveristy.
is concerned more with the survival of plant and animal life.
is concerned more with how the enviroment impacts people's lives.
3. Which of the following is not an example of a sustainable development project? (1 point)
using renewable energy resources
planting new trees for future harvest
giving money to community-based groups that sell products made from renewable natural resources
financing projects to clear rainforest land for cattle grazing
4. Which is not an example of a goal that many countries agreed to have accomplished by 2015?
(1 point)
Provide global funding to hire highly qualified educators to teach abroad.
Donate millions of dollars to purchase affordable HIV medicines in high poverty areas globally
Send and distribute large quantities of food to Somalia and Ethiopia
Issue reparations to all countries that suffered high amounts of casualties from past major wars
5. What is the objective of the Dashboard of Sustainability?
(1 point)
to direct the UN MDGs to success by 2015
to assist citizens in ascertaining their individual ?green footprint?
to illustrate the complex relationships among economic, social, and environmental issues
to guide Agenda21NOW! participants through the 24-hour conference
6. Which country's action would be in violation of section II of the Agenda 21 plan?
(1 point)
The Brazilian government mandates the clearing of 200 acres in order to generate revenue from exported lumber.
China's government outlines tougher penalties for those factories that illegally dump waste into nearby water.
The United States raises vehicle emission standards and mandates more frequent emission testing for vehicles manufactured before 1985.
The Canadian government budgets 40 million dollars to eliminate contaminants from Lake Superior, Lake Huron, and Lake Ontario.
7. The adoption of the Agenda 21 comprehensive plan
(1 point)
only lasted weeks due to steadily deteriorating environmental conditions.
targets only those few countries with extreme environmental problems.
outlines local, national, and global efforts that would help improve the environment.
was a quick process that relied heavily on input from a select few countries.
8. Why do some people have a problem with the term ?sustainable development?? (1 point)
They believe it focuses on growth when the focus should be on conserving what exists.
To some, the term is too ambiguous and should be more definitive.
Some think of it as a euphemism for capitalistic intervention.
It?s not politically correct.
9. Which person would most likely not be impacted by the Agenda 21 plan? (1 point)
CEO of a major waste processing firm
farmer
owner of a lumber company
scientist from NASA
10. Which of the following topics would not relate to substainable living? (1 point)
composting
transportation alternatives
single-use containers
water conservation
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Resolved Question: What grade would you give this college paper (10 pages)?
Terrorism, the use of covert violence by a group to bring about political or social change, is usually directed against a government but can also used against other ethnic groups, classes, or parties. Historically, terrorism has been used as a means to attempt many different ends. Civil wars, revolutionary wars, labour disputes, and resistance movements have all been accompanied by terrorism. The attempts of terrorists have been to overthrow both liberal democracies and oppressive tyrants, sometimes with an obvious link to economic or social crisis.
In today?s increasingly complex, technological, and globalized world terrorists have changed their methods with the times. They are adopting new targets, weapons, tactics, demands, and methods of organization. The old profiles of terrorists no longer seem to hold true as more and more terrorists are coming from many different economic and social backgrounds. It is a global phenomenon and yet each terrorist organization appears to have its own unique motivations. Although the reasons for their actions may be different, the methods, tactics and even networks used by terrorists are often shared and indicate a common factor.
Acts of terror may seem, and are often designed to seem, like senseless violence against a random target. To the average, uninvolved person such abominable actions indicate an insanity without logic. Certain individuals that are susceptible to joining terrorist organizations may be somehow psychologically predisposed, or they may see a moral justification of means by the ends they hope to achieve. Whatever the reasons they have, there is rationality and strategy behind the attacks they carry out. The terrorists make calculated plans of attack based on their own analysis of a cost and benefit scenario. They focus the extent of their resources to attack wherever the target is most vulnerable; they only need one successful attempt against a target that must be defensive on all fronts at all times.
Based of the reactionary nature of terrorism and the evidence that terrorists use logical reasoning there must be some causal factors that lend themselves to the strategies of terrorists. By examining pre-existing conditions within a country or region it is possible to draw conclusions about the tactics that terrorists will use. The factors considered for terrorism are similar to vulnerabilities of a disaster: resources, social demographics, and political institutions as well as historical background. These pre-existing conditions can be used to account for the targets terrorists chose, the actual method of attack, and the intended consequences.
Nigeria, with its environmentally diverse delta region, is a country that is representative of most post-colonial African nations in the challenges it has faced since its independence. As with many other countries all over Africa it saw violent conflict and struggles with development in the wake of its colonizers. Now Nigeria sees itself as a model for successful democracy in its region. After forty years of government characterized by rapid regime change and military dictatorships, they are now in the second decade of a functional democracy. Nigeria is the most populous nation in Africa and is home to over 250 ethnic groups, with Muslims, Christians, and people of indigenous beliefs. Additionally, like some other West African countries it is very rich in natural resources, with oil being its most profitable material. It is one of the strongest economies in Africa. As a result they have received lots of attention from multi-national corporations that have put pressure on the government to keep wages and benefits for Nigerian workers low. Urban areas in Nigeria only account for 25% of the country?s population; the majority of Nigerians are rural dwellers and rely on subsistence agriculture. There is also a prevalence of government corruption and prebendalism in which federal jobs are given primarily to family members and people from the same ethnic heritage.
Terrorism in Nigeria has appeared in many different forms, and it was even said by the U.S. State Department that Nigeria is an area prone to terrorist activity. Attacks on foreign companies in the Niger Delta have been growing in frequency and organization; recently a terrorist group known as MEND (Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta) has declared war on the foreign investors in the region. There has also been separate instances of religiously motivated terrorism in Kano, Nigeria?s capital city. There have also been instances of state sponsored terrorism stemming out of recent elections and the sudden adoption of Sharia in most of the Northern States. The many conditions and forces acting within Nigeria have led to calculated acts of terrorism, by examining the pre-existing conditions inside the country a clear connection can be made between the conditions and the methods of terrorism.
The first pre-existing condition re
Not all terrorists use the same methods. Unless you are trying to tell me suicide bombing, hijackings, hostage taking, arson, assassination, etc. are all the same. There is no universally accepted definition of terrorism, by labeling it as a tactic you are widening the scope used to view terrorism from a moralistic and philosophical standpoint because that definition implies terrorists are soldiers.
P.S. this is sandy isn't it?
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Resolved Question: Are we allowed to have children? Help :'(?
Guys i seriously need ur help ! i'm having this debate tomorrow in my French class on whether or not gay couples should have children. Either by adoption, surrogacy or insemination . Thing is, I'm the only gay person in class. And the majority of the class is of catholic upbringing . I feel like i will be ganged up on. And i will feel really bad if i let them win the argument.
I assume their main points will have to do with:
1.Children need a mom and dad not two dads/moms.
2.Gays raising children can lead to having gay children.
3.Insemination and surrogacy is "unnatural" and goes against the christian belief.
4.Children of gay parents will be targets of scrutiny in the society.
I'm sure they will come up with many reasons and scientific findings that aren't in favor of gays having children.
Please feel free to post website links that can aid me :(
Thanks in advance for everyone who contributes.
xox
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Resolved Question: Do looks REALLY matter?
I was recently flicking through a Compassion booklet [About sponsoring poverty-stricken children overseas], and the booklet had photos of a group of children that needed sponsoring.
Then I thought to myself, do people really need to look at photos of the children? Whats the point?
I think the REAL point is that they are all poverty-stricken and regardless of their looks - ugly, pretty, tall, short, fat, thin, boy, girl, IT DOESN'T MATTER - THEY ALL NEED OUR HELP!
Do adoption services also show pictures of the children? It seems to me that it's like picking something out of a Target catalog.
Opinions?
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Resolved Question: What good has it done to our public school systems to accept "gay marriage" as being normal?
In high schools there are school-wide assemblies to celebrate "gay" marriage, featuring speakers, including principals teachers at the schools themselves, who have "married" their "gay" partners and are starting families either through adoption, in the case of males, or artificial insemination, in the case of lesbians.
In middle schools, teachers discuss gay sex with their students as explicitly as they desire.
In elementary schools, kindergartners are given picture-books telling them that "gay spouses" are just another kind of family, like their own parents. When a parent of a kindergartner strongly insisted on being notified when teachers were discussing homosexuality or transgenderism with his son, the school had him arrested and put in jail overnight.
Federal judges have ruled that because "gay" marriage is legal in Massachusetts, the schools actually have a duty to normalize homosexual relationships to children and that schools have no obligation to notify parents or to let them opt out their children.
Literature in favor of "gay" marriage, how it is now a normal part of society, is routinely handed out to students. School libraries across the state, from elementary school through high school, now have shelves of books to normalize homosexual behavior and its lifestyle in the minds of children, some of them quite explicit and even pornographic. Parents' complaints are ignored or met with hostility.
It has become commonplace in Massachusetts schools for principals and teachers to display prominently photographs of their "gay spouses" and bring those "spouses" to school functions.
Gay Days are considered necessary in schools to fight "intolerance" and "homophobia." High schools and even middle schools across the state now hold GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender) Appreciation Days. They celebrate homosexual "marriage" and move forward to other behaviors such transvestism and transsexuality.
The Massachusetts legislature now gives tax monies to homosexual activist groups. In particular, the Massachusetts Commission on Gay Lesbian Bisexual, and Transgender Youth, made up of the most radical and militant homosexual groups, in 2008 received close to a million dollars to target children in the public schools.
Homosexual "marriage" now hangs over our state like a hammer with the force of law. And it has only just begun. It is pretty clear that the homosexual movement's obsession with marriage is not because large numbers of "gays" actually want to marry each other. Rather, this is about putting the legal stamp of approval on homosexuality and imposing it with force throughout the various social and political institutions of a society that would never accept it otherwise.
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Resolved Question: What good has it done to our public school systems to accept "gay marriage" as being normal?
In high schools there are school-wide assemblies to celebrate "gay" marriage, featuring speakers, including principals teachers at the schools themselves, who have "married" their "gay" partners and are starting families either through adoption, in the case of males, or artificial insemination, in the case of lesbians.
In middle schools, teachers discuss gay sex with their students as explicitly as they desire.
In elementary schools, kindergartners are given picture-books telling them that "gay spouses" are just another kind of family, like their own parents. When a parent of a kindergartner strongly insisted on being notified when teachers were discussing homosexuality or transgenderism with his son, the school had him arrested and put in jail overnight.
Federal judges have ruled that because "gay" marriage is legal in Massachusetts, the schools actually have a duty to normalize homosexual relationships to children and that schools have no obligation to notify parents or to let them opt out their children.
Literature in favor of "gay" marriage, how it is now a normal part of society, is routinely handed out to students. School libraries across the state, from elementary school through high school, now have shelves of books to normalize homosexual behavior and its lifestyle in the minds of children, some of them quite explicit and even pornographic. Parents' complaints are ignored or met with hostility.
It has become commonplace in Massachusetts schools for principals and teachers to display prominently photographs of their "gay spouses" and bring those "spouses" to school functions.
Gay Days are considered necessary in schools to fight "intolerance" and "homophobia." High schools and even middle schools across the state now hold GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender) Appreciation Days. They celebrate homosexual "marriage" and move forward to other behaviors such transvestism and transsexuality.
The Massachusetts legislature now gives tax monies to homosexual activist groups. In particular, the Massachusetts Commission on Gay Lesbian Bisexual, and Transgender Youth, made up of the most radical and militant homosexual groups, in 2008 received close to a million dollars to target children in the public schools.
Homosexual "marriage" now hangs over our state like a hammer with the force of law. And it has only just begun. It is pretty clear that the homosexual movement's obsession with marriage is not because large numbers of "gays" actually want to marry each other. Rather, this is about putting the legal stamp of approval on homosexuality and imposing it with force throughout the various social and political institutions of a society that would never accept it otherwise.
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Resolved Question: Whom would you vote for and why?
Trying to find out what the people on Y!A think on the subject I posted the contenders to the Demons of Adoption Award's poll that is available on the internet.
Twice this question has been deleted for reasons of solicitation. So let me try it once more and frame the question in such a way that I don't offend those who claim soliciting activities.
On poundpuplegacy.org (and to be clear I am affiliated to that website) is a poll to vote for this years Demons of Adoption Awards.
I would like to know what has motivated those who voted and what would motivate those that haven't voted yet.
The nominees are:
* LDS Family Services for using coercive tactics in obtaining infants for adoption and for not respecting paternal rights;
* The makers of Juno for helping to groom and brainwash a whole new generation of girls and young women to be walking incubators for the the adoption industry;
* Adoption.com for systematically banning voices that oppose current adoption practices and their continuous pro-adoption propaganda;
* Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute for awarding persons and organizations that promote the one sided point of view of the adoption industry;
* Adoptions from the Heart for their continued cooperation with the totally corrupt Indian orphanage Preet Mandir;
* Amici dei Bambini for being the driving force behind the concept of European Adoptions, as a way to re-open adoptions from Romania;
* CPS in various states for pushing for quick adoptions on flimsy allegations to meet targets and quotas;
* UK Local authority Social Services for pushing for quick adoptions on flimsy allegations to meet targets and quotas;
* Canadian Children's Aid Society for pushing for quick adoptions on flimsy allegations to meet targets and quotas;
* District of Columbia Child and Family Services Agency for for not checking up on Renee Bowman.
http://poundpuplegacy.org/node/21959
The above link is given to reference the source of a the nominees mentioned.
Jessica: If you want to nominate someone for next year, please post a comment on the website that hosts the poll. The voting page has a comment section.
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Resolved Question: What good has it done to our public school systems to accept "gay marriage" as being normal?
In high schools there are school-wide assemblies to celebrate "gay" marriage, featuring speakers, including principals teachers at the schools themselves, who have "married" their "gay" partners and are starting families either through adoption, in the case of males, or artificial insemination, in the case of lesbians.
In middle schools, teachers discuss gay sex with their students as explicitly as they desire.
In elementary schools, kindergartners are given picture-books telling them that "gay spouses" are just another kind of family, like their own parents. When a parent of a kindergartner strongly insisted on being notified when teachers were discussing homosexuality or transgenderism with his son, the school had him arrested and put in jail overnight.
Federal judges have ruled that because "gay" marriage is legal in Massachusetts, the schools actually have a duty to normalize homosexual relationships to children and that schools have no obligation to notify parents or to let them opt out their children.
Literature in favor of "gay" marriage, how it is now a normal part of society, is routinely handed out to students. School libraries across the state, from elementary school through high school, now have shelves of books to normalize homosexual behavior and its lifestyle in the minds of children, some of them quite explicit and even pornographic. Parents' complaints are ignored or met with hostility.
It has become commonplace in Massachusetts schools for principals and teachers to display prominently photographs of their "gay spouses" and bring those "spouses" to school functions.
Gay Days are considered necessary in schools to fight "intolerance" and "homophobia." High schools and even middle schools across the state now hold GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender) Appreciation Days. They celebrate homosexual "marriage" and move forward to other behaviors such transvestism and transsexuality.
The Massachusetts legislature now gives tax monies to homosexual activist groups. In particular, the Massachusetts Commission on Gay Lesbian Bisexual, and Transgender Youth, made up of the most radical and militant homosexual groups, in 2008 received close to a million dollars to target children in the public schools.
Homosexual "marriage" now hangs over our state like a hammer with the force of law. And it has only just begun. It is pretty clear that the homosexual movement's obsession with marriage is not because large numbers of "gays" actually want to marry each other. Rather, this is about putting the legal stamp of approval on homosexuality and imposing it with force throughout the various social and political institutions of a society that would never accept it otherwise. Your readers have been forewarned from our Massachusetts experience.
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Resolved Question: Curiousity about the 'happy adoptees.'?
Let me start off by saying that I DO believe there is such thing as a happy adoptees who DOESN'T want to search and who DOESN'T feel as though anything was/ has been missing in their life.
They are happy with the family they have now, they are happy with the siblings they have, and as far as they've concerned, the adoptive family IS the real family and the other family is just, well, blood and skin cells and DNA. Understandable, because at the basis of it all, people who have reunited are really just "intimate strangers" - connected by blood and DNA until they get to know each other better.
But my question is: if these happy adoptees are so content about everything in their lives, then is there a reason why they keep coming back to the Y!A forums?
Hypothetically speaking, if adoption IS perfect and a basket of sunshine and butterflies for everyone (again, hypothetically considering that the biomom wanted to give her child up for a better life and was NOT coerced), then why are these adoptees sticking around an adoption forum?
What is there to discuss about adoption if they're perfectly content with it? Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't these people prefer to go about their lives rather than spending time in the target forum that they are so content about, and therefore not having any real need to "discuss" adoption?
anastasia: Um... that's not quite what I meant. I would (correctly?) assume that many - if not all - adoptees grow up wondering at least a little about who their bioparents were.
My question was more about the "not wanting to search or have any interest in roots yet come here anyway" aspect.
Randy B and Carnie C: Yeah, that did occur to me about half an hour after I posted - that the "good" adoptees would be here to balance the "uppity" adoptees.
It also occurred to me that it levels out the balance instead of people coming on here and thinking all adoptees are traumatized or whatever. Thanks for bringing that up!
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Resolved Question: WHO'S EXCITED FOR CHRISTMAS DUDE?
aghhhhh im so friggin excited i'm trying not to show it to my family cuz i dont want them to think im a freak and then put me up for adoption BUT I CAN'T HELP IT AGHHHHHHH (has a stroke)
ok i've calmed down. So, i was at target yesterday lookin at halloween stuff, and then in the very last aisle at the back of the store they had christmas stuff. and then it hit me. IT'S REALLY HERE!!!
DREW IT IS HERE!!!! YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE
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