Nicole Richie and UNICEF
Health — By Marcie on September 16, 2009 at 7:23 am
Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Nicole Richie (adopted as a child by Lionel Richie) and Joel Madden have recently recorded public service announcements to help support UNICEF’s efforts in Myanmar.
Certainly a far cry from her days on The Simple Life, eh?
I am wondering, however, if Richie knows of UNICEF’s stance on Inter-Country Adoption; UNICEF believes that families needing support to care for their children should receive it, and that alternative means of caring for a child should only be considered when, despite this assistance, a child’s family is unavailable, unable or unwilling to care for him or her. They also believe that true orphans (children who have lost both parents) should be reunited with extended family instead of placed for adoption.
While I believe that in some cases this is appropriate, many people in countries that UNICEF aids (Guatemala, Myanmar, India, Vietnam, etc) can not financially care for themselves or another child and to place another child in their home could be absolutely devastating to them. Although most adoptive parents don’t adopt to save their children from a life of poverty and economic hardship…they do so to have children, don’t you think that welcoming a child into a family is better than asking relatives who can’t afford to help do so?
But, just my opinion…
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4 Comments
It always amazes me when someone who has been touched by adoption closes their eyes to Unicef and their practices as it pertains to adoption.
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Thanks Julie! It absolutely amazes me how many people don’t know what UNICEF really does regarding adoption. Until I did research about it I, too, was ignorant about it.
They state they want the best for children but what is best is not always what they think is the right thing to do. Keeping families together in war torn, poverty ridden countries is not always the best. Take Haiti, for example, where they eat mud cookies 3 times a day. Do you really want a child to live like that or do you want them to be able to have 3 squares?
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I’m amazed that people just assume an organization is good and aligns themselves with the organization just because they claim to help children. Yes UNICEF does some good things – but it does some things that I find disturbing enough to refuse to support it.
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Did it ever occur to you that being adopted was the reason that Ritchie is happy to endorse UNICEF?
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