You can save a Canadian child as well

Note: This, my dear readers is what we call a sales pitch.

You can save a Canadian child as well

The images of the children — scared, wounded, hungry and sometimes orphaned — are the ones that really break our hearts. Perhaps that’s what prompted a group of Baptists from Idaho to head to Haiti, scoop up 33 kids and attempt to take them across the border to the Dominican Republic, allegedly without documentation. The Americans claim they were just trying to save Haitian kids. Haitian government officials, however, are investigating the incident as possible kidnapping.

Meanwhile, on the home front, there are tens of thousands of children who are wards of the state in North America who would love to have real families.

Note: I will repeat one phrase: "would love to have real families." Not artificial ones like the child protective industry provides.

I will also remind you of an article that I read the other day.

Child welfare expert warns against adopting from Haiti

Adopting children from earthquake-devastated Haiti is a kind humanitarian gesture but not the best way to help them, according to child welfare expert Dr. Yitzhak Kadman, executive director of the National Council for the Child.

International adoptions are not advisable even in ideal circumstances, because of cultural difference, but when a child has suffered such a traumatic experience it is best for them to stay in familiar surroundings, according to Kadman, who will speak about the government’s proposal to adopt Haitian orphans at the Knesset Committee on the Rights of the Child next week.

Now could that not be true for an abused child as well? Familiar surroundings... Family who loves you... People you know...