Monday, August 29, 2011

Where is This Baby Store?

I don't own a television for a very good reason. There is only crap on it these days.  I have spoken at length about the last two programs that I watched, and since Dexter is 12 weeks out of the year, I opt not to have the noise for the other 40 weeks.
But in my store   JJDA'S VERY NEEDFUL THINGS LLC   I have a television on when a customer wants to see how it works.  I have noticed an alarming trend that forces me to ask one question.  Where are all of these celebrities buying their babies?
I used to work with a wonderful woman when I was still at the happiest retail establishment on earth.  She and her husband had been trying to have a baby for years when they decided to adopt.  They are stable, normal, hard working, and non crazy.  No history of abuse of any sort, just all around great people.  They went through the twenty miles of hoops to begin adopting a baby.
They also went through the added hoops of fostering a small child in the hopes of having a son or daughter that way.  They are still waiting, not for a baby, but to find the end to the red tape that will allow them to take their new son home with them.
Another friend of mine went through two years of back and forth trying to bring home a Vietnamese child.  Two years and fifty some thousand dollars later, the little girl is still not here.
So how is it that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie can pick up those children like I grab chicken take out after a long day at the shop?
From all the literature I have seen, there are quite a few steps to foreign adoptions, and as I am watching my friend go through it, quite a lot of time involved too.  The idea of just hopping a flight and picking up your fifth, sixth,or eighth child seems wrong to me.
It's not that I don't want to see these poor children find happiness and joy in the United States or where ever the celebrity has dragged them this week for the necessary photo op or cover shot, I just wish I knew where this baby store with no red tape is located.
I would be more than happy to tell my friends and they could thank me later.

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