Speak Out, ALWAYS Speak Out
Posted: April 17, 2007 at 7:22 pmIn reference to the MySpace disgustingness, Lifetime Adoption has updated their MySpace page. Some of my favorite key points:
WE DO NOT CONTACT BIRTH MOTHERS – YOU NEED TO CONTACT US!
No, you contact pregnant women. No one is a birth mother until they sign the Termination of Parental Rights.
Although we are an adoption resources group (NOT AN ADOPTION AGENCY) we are happy to help you make a life plan.
No, you’re worse than an agency. You’re a sleazy facilitator who isn’t bound by the same laws that agencies are (which those laws and rules don’t do much to govern agencies anyway but basically facilitators are untouchable when they break the law; just ask ANLC!).
They also removed their “exotic dancer” networking link on their profile and now it’s just “public relations.” They also removed a BUNCH of links. Interesting all the same.
I wouldn’t have known about the updates if some comment spammer from a San Fransisco IP address at a private residence connected to the name Caldwell. So, thanks to that comment spammer, I can let readers know that they’re trying to cover their behinds. (Though, this random commenter stated that I don’t look pregnant in my MySpace picture which means that either this person knows me OR it’s someone from the agency/facilitator who started this mess and knows that I’ve changed my MySpace default picture to something that DOESN’T identify me as pregnant so as to avoid further solicitations. Sneaky, aren’t they?)
Interestingly, for a second, I thought maybe the MySpace account wan’t affiliated with the agency/facilitator since they removed a TON of their local branch links and just now list the dot ORG site as opposed to dot COM. However, again, if you go to lifetimeadoption dot ORG you are redirected to the dot COM site.
So, basically, word got out and they tried to cover their rear ends. Don’t trust this company.
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The whole saga is gross Jenna. I’m creeped out by it all.
You know that line about ‘pregnant? considering adoption’ and all the other lines they use in advertising online? That is why I won’t run google ads or any other generic advertising group ad feed. I know what is going to come up on my site when they do any keyword association – grubby, creepy adoption ads.
I went on hold with blogher when I had to deal with all the stuff with the TV station and they said it was fine. But now they won’t return any of my emails to them or from their site. Sigh. I’d like to run some ads but I can’t find any group I’m completely sure will run quality ads without those adoption ones.
Wow
I just read this whole thing just now, how awful. It scares me how much this society is trying to normalize it all, have it be the first thing a young woman thinks of when finding out she is unexpectedly pregnant. Its disgusting they are on my space where so many young woman are.
MSP