Comments on: Adoption Rocks! http://weblogsky.com/2009/10/21/adoption-rocks/ Smart thinking about digital culture, media, and the Internet. Fri, 18 May 2012 15:50:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Adoption Rocks! A Celebration of National Adoption Month, Austin Style « Shannon Aronin http://weblogsky.com/2009/10/21/adoption-rocks/comment-page-1/#comment-1408 Adoption Rocks! A Celebration of National Adoption Month, Austin Style « Shannon Aronin Tue, 04 May 2010 00:03:51 +0000 http://weblogsky.com/2009/10/21/adoption-rocks/#comment-1408 [...] Weblogsky [...] [...] Weblogsky [...]

]]> By: Sandra Usleman http://weblogsky.com/2009/10/21/adoption-rocks/comment-page-1/#comment-969 Sandra Usleman Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:56:06 +0000 http://weblogsky.com/2009/10/21/adoption-rocks/#comment-969 Wow - what an incredible, moving, impressive evening last night at the Long Center celebrating Adoption Rocks!!! The venue was perfect. Dumpstaphunk!!! How could anyone sit down??? John Pointer - the best talent in Austin. Can't wait until next year. Wow – what an incredible, moving, impressive evening last night at the Long Center celebrating Adoption Rocks!!! The venue was perfect. Dumpstaphunk!!! How could anyone sit down??? John Pointer – the best talent in Austin. Can’t wait until next year.

]]> By: Mike Chapman http://weblogsky.com/2009/10/21/adoption-rocks/comment-page-1/#comment-951 Mike Chapman Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:24:20 +0000 http://weblogsky.com/2009/10/21/adoption-rocks/#comment-951 It's hard for me to imagine how providing a loving, caring home and family to a child or children who've been left without either because of war and disease could be violence. That's exactly what has happened in this case and many like it. The event described above will help the orphans who still need to be adopted. Try spreading the word in a positive way and being a part of a solution. It'll help you see this from a different and better perspecive. Mike It’s hard for me to imagine how providing a loving, caring home and family to a child or children who’ve been left without either because of war and disease could be violence. That’s exactly what has happened in this case and many like it. The event described above will help the orphans who still need to be adopted. Try spreading the word in a positive way and being a part of a solution. It’ll help you see this from a different and better perspecive.

Mike

]]> By: Ibn Zayd http://weblogsky.com/2009/10/21/adoption-rocks/comment-page-1/#comment-950 Ibn Zayd Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:52:27 +0000 http://weblogsky.com/2009/10/21/adoption-rocks/#comment-950 How about all that money goes to keeping children with their true families? Adoption is a violence, based in inequality; it is candy-coated to make it seem about family and children, but it is an economic and political crime, a treating of symptoms and not of disease; it is a negation of families and an annihilation of communities that are not seen as having an intrinsic human value equal to that of those adopting, for reasons having to do with race, with class, and with a preconceived notion of what makes for a "valid" life in this world. How about all that money goes to keeping children with their true families?

Adoption is a violence, based in inequality; it is candy-coated to make it seem about family and children, but it is an economic and political crime, a treating of symptoms and not of disease; it is a negation of families and an annihilation of communities that are not seen as having an intrinsic human value equal to that of those adopting, for reasons having to do with race, with class, and with a preconceived notion of what makes for a “valid” life in this world.

]]> By: Adoption Rocks! A Celebration of National Adoption Month, Austin Style http://weblogsky.com/2009/10/21/adoption-rocks/comment-page-1/#comment-948 Adoption Rocks! A Celebration of National Adoption Month, Austin Style Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:31:54 +0000 http://weblogsky.com/2009/10/21/adoption-rocks/#comment-948 [...] Weblogsky [...] [...] Weblogsky [...]

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