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Family Forum / Parenting / Adoption / December 2008Little Caylee's legacy: 'No Child Unwanted'. Twisting the message.
Top post. Caylee murdered by *birth* mother. Huh ? What the hell is he talking about? Caylee was murdered by her mother. The qualifier was totally unnecessary. Unless, of course, the message people are *really* meant to take away is "Birth mother, bad mother: Her story of unfathomable damnation." Oh dear. http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2008/12/little-caylees.html Little Caylee's legacy: 'No Child Unwanted' Plain Talk By Al Neuharth, USA TODAY Founder This special Christmas week for children was saddened by news that the remains of missing 3-year-old Caylee Anthony were found in the woods near her Orlando home. Her birth mother, 22-year-old Casey Anthony, is in jail, charged with murdering her little girl. The months-long mystery of what happened to Caylee should help us focus on these two prime human problems in our society: • Unwanted children by women who get pregnant by mistake. • Wanted children by women who can't get pregnant. The best answer for both groups is adoption. My wife, Rachel, and I adopted six racially diverse children chosen at their birth Alexis, now 17; Karina, 12; twins Andre and Ariana, 10; and twins Ali and Rafi, 8. Those blessings were made possible because Dr. Rachel founded a not- for-profit adoption agency, Home At Last (HAL) in Cocoa Beach, Fla. She has developed a network of schools, churches, doctors and hospitals that brings unwanted pregnancies to her attention. Through HAL, those birth mothers are given educational, financial, legal and medical help. HAL has placed many dozens of children with eager parents from Florida to New York to California and in between. When Caylee's birth mother decided she didn't want or couldn't care for her baby, state and/or federal help should have been readily available for aid in adoption. Unfortunately, it wasn't and isn't. Our government has addressed education problems for children, including President Bush's No Child Left Behind plan. President Obama should prioritize a "No Child Left Unwanted" program to encourage and support adoptions. It might be one of the most humane of his ambitious Health and Human Services plans. Other views on adoption "If pregnant women who cannot or do not want to raise a child could view the adoption process as practiced by HAL, then Mr. Neuharth's Christmas wish would be answered and no children would go unwanted." — Don and Therese DeMarco of New York, parents of an infant recently adopted through HAL "Adoption is a responsible choice to an unintended pregnancy. When birthmothers choose adoption with their infants' future and best interests in mind, everyone involved benefits from that decision." — Chuck Johnson, vice president and COO,National Council For Adoption Top post. Caylee murdered by *birth* mother. Huh ? What the hell is he talking about? Caylee was murdered by her mother. Yeah that was my first thought too. He's an old coot though ;) so I figured his frame of reference was probably a little 'dated'. What is distrurbing to me is that he was able to adopt at all given his age. Guess that's what money (his) and connections (his wife's agency) will get you! Kathy The qualifier was totally unnecessary. Unless, of course, the message people are *really* meant to take away is "Birth mother, bad mother: Her story of unfathomable damnation." Oh dear. http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2008/12/little-caylees.html Little Caylee's legacy: 'No Child Unwanted' Plain Talk By Al Neuharth, USA TODAY Founder This special Christmas week for children was saddened by news that the remains of missing 3-year-old Caylee Anthony were found in the woods near her Orlando home. Her birth mother, 22-year-old Casey Anthony, is in jail, charged with murdering her little girl. The months-long mystery of what happened to Caylee should help us focus on these two prime human problems in our society: • Unwanted children by women who get pregnant by mistake. • Wanted children by women who can't get pregnant. The best answer for both groups is adoption. My wife, Rachel, and I adopted six racially diverse children chosen at their birth Alexis, now 17; Karina, 12; twins Andre and Ariana, 10; and twins Ali and Rafi, 8. Those blessings were made possible because Dr. Rachel founded a not- for-profit adoption agency, Home At Last (HAL) in Cocoa Beach, Fla. She has developed a network of schools, churches, doctors and hospitals that brings unwanted pregnancies to her attention. Through HAL, those birth mothers are given educational, financial, legal and medical help. HAL has placed many dozens of children with eager parents from Florida to New York to California and in between. When Caylee's birth mother decided she didn't want or couldn't care for her baby, state and/or federal help should have been readily available for aid in adoption. Unfortunately, it wasn't and isn't. Our government has addressed education problems for children, including President Bush's No Child Left Behind plan. President Obama should prioritize a "No Child Left Unwanted" program to encourage and support adoptions. It might be one of the most humane of his ambitious Health and Human Services plans. Other views on adoption "If pregnant women who cannot or do not want to raise a child could view the adoption process as practiced by HAL, then Mr. Neuharth's Christmas wish would be answered and no children would go unwanted." — Don and Therese DeMarco of New York, parents of an infant recently adopted through HAL "Adoption is a responsible choice to an unintended pregnancy. When birthmothers choose adoption with their infants' future and best interests in mind, everyone involved benefits from that decision." — Chuck Johnson, vice president and COO,National Council For Adoption > <kippaherr...@hotmail.com> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Yeah that was my first thought too. He's an old coot though ;) so I figured > his frame of reference was probably a little 'dated'. Yes indeed. I didn't realise he was so ancient. Born 1924 - that qualifies as serious cootiness. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Neuharth And, according to Wikipedia, he "fathered an out-of-wedlock daughter, Rosamunda Neuharth-Ozgo, but never acknowledged her." Lovely. > What is distrurbing > to me is that he was able to adopt at all given his age. Guess that's what > money (his) and connections (his wife's agency) will get you! Gack. > Kathy > [quoted text clipped - 61 lines] > > — Chuck Johnson, vice president and COO,National Council For Adoption On Dec 29, 5:48 pm, "kat" <katla...@hotmail.com> wrote: > <kippaherr...@hotmail.com> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Yeah that was my first thought too. He's an old coot though ;) so I figured > his frame of reference was probably a little 'dated'. Yes indeed. I didn't realise he was so ancient. Born 1924 - that qualifies as serious cootiness. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Neuharth And, according to Wikipedia, he "fathered an out-of-wedlock daughter, Rosamunda Neuharth-Ozgo, but never acknowledged her." Lovely. Nice. I didn't know that. It puts a lot of what he writes about adoption in a different light, imo. Kathy > What is distrurbing > to me is that he was able to adopt at all given his age. Guess that's what > money (his) and connections (his wife's agency) will get you! Gack. > Kathy > [quoted text clipped - 61 lines] > > — Chuck Johnson, vice president and COO,National Council For Adoption > <kippaherr...@hotmail.com> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > Nice. I didn't know that. It puts a lot of what he writes about adoption in > a different light, imo. It really does, doesn't it? One lives and learns. Get this. Third post down, by Rosamunda Neuharth-Ozgo herself http://www.bloggernews.net/115358 That was exactly my thought, too. I just put up a blog about it: Note to Al Neuharth: Casey Anthony is not a "birth mother" or why language counts http://bastardette.blogspot.com Marley On Dec 29, 2:34 pm, kippaherr...@hotmail.com wrote: > Top post. > Caylee murdered by *birth* mother. Huh ? [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2008/12/little-caylees.html > That was exactly my thought, too. I just put up a blog about it: > Note to Al Neuharth: Casey Anthony is not a "birth mother" or why > language counts > > http://bastardette.blogspot.com If the below is true, which it sounds as if it may very well be, I wonder what term he would use to describe his own relationship to Rosamunda Neuharth-Ozg. "Birth father"? She calls him a hypocrite http://www.nypost.com/seven/04072008/gossip/pagesix/squabble_over_media_exhibit_ 105337.htm SQUABBLE OVER MEDIA EXHIBIT April 7, 2008 -- THE brass in charge of the new $450 million Newseum - a Washington- based exhibit dedicated to the freedom of the press - are a big bunch of hypocrites who actually squash the rights of the media. That's the charge by Rosamunda Neuharth-Ozgo, who claims she's the love child of USA Today founder Al Neuharth, creator of the Freedom Forum, which funded the Newseum. Neuharth, she said, has never admitted he's her dad, even though he sent her $100 a month until she turned 21 and his name is on her birth certificate. "To me, the story is about the hypocrisy of Al Neuharth and the Freedom Forum. They make a mockery of the principles they claim they want to uphold," Ozgo told The Post's Keith Kelly, adding that the Freedom Forum once killed a bio of Neuharth because it was to contain word that he fathered an out-of- wedlock daughter and shut her out of his life. "They are supposed to be promoting journalistic integrity, but they suppress the news when it doesn't suit their needs." A Newseum flack had no comment and declined to put us on the phone with Neuharth. |
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