Betty Alfred <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> In a message dated 04/07/2000 7:42:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> > Joyce wrote an artile for the My Turn section of Newsweek
> > back in '97 about how adoptive parents like us are portrayed
> > as "bad guys" in article and TV programs. Joyce went on to
> > say  how we helped out daughter find her birth mother. Well,
> > today Joyce gets a call from a woman at Newsweek and she says
> > Fox TV is interested in making a movie about the whole
> > thing!!! Joyce is ecstatic.
>
Congrats to Joyce.

> I'll bet she is and congratulations!  Perhaps more importantly,
> hooray for both of you for being such great parents to help
> your daughter find her birth mother.  That must have been a
> heart-healing event for both of them.
>
> I did not realize that adoptive parents were getting bad press.
> I don't understand why that would be.  I don't trust mainstream
> media anymore based on my knowledge of it's misrepresentation
> of the disability community, but what's its beef about adoptive
> parents?
>
I blame "Cinderella"!!

--
Deri James