So, the Nebraska Safe Haven law has been making the news in an abysmal, embarrassing way for Nebraskan officials. Check out this in the latest series of articles. This article features an adoptive mother abandoning her child in Nebraska, and I have a lot to say about that, but first, I have something to say [...]
Posts Tagged ‘adoption’
Safe Haven law
Posted in news, work, tagged abandonment, adoption, nebraska, safe haven on November 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A good story
Posted in work, tagged adoption on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Fairly often, I’m sharing stories of really ignorant, privileged, entitled, and just downright arrogant adoptive parents, and, let’s just go that extra mile, bad parents. I don’t want to sour anybody’s view of adoption; there are just as many ignorant, privileged, entitled, arrogant, bad bio-parents in the world. The difference is, when you adopt a [...]
Zombie Grandpa
Posted in family, tagged adoption, family, zombies on October 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This zombie grandpa thing is causing more of a reaction in me than I thought it would. I mean, it’s just some dude who I don’t know, have never met, and have never spoken to, so his miraculous desert adventure is really just some chapter out of a lost Hunter S. Thompson novel at best, [...]
What is the whitest thing
Posted in race, white people, work, tagged adoption, racism, white people, white privilege on September 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I need a small break today. The program I work on is gearing up for new events, and it’s just constant nose-to-grindstone craziness. I’ve discovered, to my chagrin, that I have no anger management skills. I have so rarely actually gotten angry in my life, for good or ill, that now that I am healthier [...]
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