Last night, as I watched the news reports about orphans from Haiti being adopted, I couldn't help but feel sad to think that they may have lost most, if not all of their family history. I also worry that some people may be taking the children for the wrong reasons (i.e., cute/trendy). As I feel off to sleep, the orphans were in my prayers...
And then today, I come across crap like this:
And then today, I come across crap like this:
My Minx is a fashion web game that has a feature where you can adopt a child as an accessory and even dress him/her up.
The game encourages adoption of children as fashion accessories. My Minx players can buy orphans such as Pax, Maddox and Zahara – named after Angelina Jolie’s children – and Mercy and David Banda – named after Madonna’s kids. While four-year-old Zahara is said to be Ethiopian and a fan of eating guinea pigs, Maddox’s favourite food is supposedly cockroaches.

Do you think Angelina, Brad or Madonna approved this?

8 comments:
Wow...utterly disgusting concept...
That is a very strange website.....
I know, who thinks of this type of crap?!! I can't seem to get to the Adoption Center portion of the website anymore - hopefully it has been removed for good.
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I was watching some of the orphans meeting families last night. Wow it really was wonderful to see people so welcoming to receive these children. Just too cute! Of course I was totally tearing up.
I watched some of that as well. I was nearly sobbing...I'm such a sap :)
Brooke:
Check out this website, it will make you smile...
http://thehowertons.blogspot.com/
Thanks for the link! Love this site :)
I'm leaving for a week-long work trip to Haiti in a little under 2 weeks!
Hi Brooke:
Take care on your trip to Haiti. Please consider taking photos and/or writing something to post about your trip here on Emerge Peoria. I would really like to hear about it and I am sure other readers will as well.
Thank you for posting.
I absolutely will do that. This is a journey that I intend to document as well as I can :)
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