This one centers on adoption, and will be aired during the American Idol finale. It's wonderful. Pray for all involved in making decisions about the children they carry within or are responsible for creating..pray that this will move them to choose life...and move even those who aren't directly involved to support, in ways large and small, the decision for life.
Created by the consistently excellent Grassroots Films, it's called "Kinship."
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Another Ann -
I agree it could make someone think twice - which is good. But I think they would choose life and not adoption for their child. Again, good. But this ad is supposed to be about adoption.
Darryl DMC McDaniels is a proponent of equal access for adoptees. DMC won an Emmy Award for his 2007 documentary DMC: My Adoption Journey, in which he finally meets his birth mother.
“I’m Legit.”
The track frames their position on a New Jersey Senate bill from last year, which if passed, will allow state records of adoption papers to be accessible to the public. In essence, this would give children the opportunity to seek out their paternal family.
DMC explained the importance of the bill being passed. “Knowing who you are is about health, happiness — a human right,” he told the The New York Times. Continuing, he stated, “People who aren’t part of the adoption community don’t know about the issues, the pain, the emotions that can come from not knowing where you come from.”
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and BTW - Catholic
On “I’m Legit,” DMC’s rhymes are reminiscent of his past, before he had met his real mother, which in turn speaks to the thousands of kids who may never know their own:
“At night I can't sleep, I toss and turn/My true reality is what I wanna learn/But they are tellin’ me I can't see the proof/On a little piece of paper that holds the truth/Of who I am and what I be/Yeah I'm living but I'm missin’ a part of me/I have a right to know where I come from/Cause it’s my human right like everyone.”
http://www.me-dmc.com/index.cfm/pk/view/cd/NAA/cdid/5753/pid/302621
and BTW Catholic Vote - Moses was also adopted and went on to save "his people"
Ooops. my post hiccuped! :-)
But try this...what do the following people have in common:
ALBRIGHT, Charles (the "Eyeball Killer") BARTSCH, Guergen BERKOWITZ, David ("Son of Sam" & "The 44-Caliber Killer") BIANCHI, Kenneth, and BONO, Angelo - ("The Hillside Strangler/s") BUNDY, Ted (Florida Co-ed Murders) COLEMAN, Alton DUGAS, Gaetan GRAHAM, Harrison T. "Marty" HAMILTON, Thomas, 43 (School Shooter-killed 16 children & himself) KALLINGER, Joseph ("The Philadelphia Shoemaker"), 25 KATLIN, Steven KING, John William, 24 KIP, Martin LEE, Bruce LEGRAND, KARL, 25 LEGRAND, WALTER LINDH, Aaron, 19 MUNRO, James, 18 PAYNE, Eric, 18 REEVES, Randolph, 23 RIFKIN, Joel, 34 SAUNDERS, Peter STANO, Gerald Eugene, 27 TOPPAN, Jane, 31 ("Angel of Death") VAN STRUM, Jordan, 15 WUORNOS, Aileen Carol Pittman
All are serial killers AND all are adopted!
There is, in fact, an incredible over-representation of serial killers are adoptees. The FBI estimates 500 serial killers currently in the U.S; about 30 or 16% have been identified as adoptees. Since adoptees represent only 2-3% (5-10-million) of the general population, 16% that are serial killers is an overrepresentation compared to the general population.
What do these people have in common:
So do we look at the "good adoptees" as "proof" that adoption produced them or "rescued" them...or do we look at the bad apple adoptees and asl how much adoption and its identity confusion added to their anger and contributed to their criminal spree?
Did all the killers (including many more who killed their adopters or original parents or others)* have "bad blood"? Did nurture overcome nature and heredity to produce the "good adoptees" -- most of whom are step-parent and family adoptions anyhow?
And folks - the same can be said about adoptive parents. Good apples and bad. Some have abused and even killed the children entrusted to them.
* http://www.unsolvedmysteries.com/usm285370.html
Excellent- stay at it !!!!!
Ok Mirah nice number crunching.... now what the hell are you trying to say?.... besides insulting every single adopted person in this country.
FYI: African Americans account for over half of the prison population in the U.S. but only account for 13% of the total U.S. population.
Some of us our products of our environment, and some of us choose to rise above. Hopefully adoption can place kids in a more positive situation (that doesn't mean its always going to be positive) but don't let a group of psychos ruin your outlook on adopted children.