In a message dated 04/07/2000 7:42:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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<< 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.
>>
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?