Comments on: Adoptee Group Demand Action

By: Andy Jackson

Andy Jackson — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 05:29:34 +0000

At least not you.

By: colontos

colontos — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 04:48:48 +0000

Oh snap! No gettin’ by you Mista Jackson!

By: Andy Jackson

Andy Jackson — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 04:32:54 +0000

Uh, it is not the 19th century.

By: colontos

colontos — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 02:30:52 +0000

I just learned from that site that “Jade” is derived from the Spanish for “bowel” and was used in the 19th century to mean “nag” or “prostitute.”

Andy, I think your link had the opposite effect on me than you intended it to. Now I’m even more down on the name!

By: Andy Jackson

Andy Jackson — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 01:43:35 +0000

About the name: Jade was only the 111th most popular name in the USA in 2007, but it was the 7th most popular name for girls in France in 2005. I suspect that the Dutch do not have the same associations with the name that some Americans do.
http://www.babynamesworld.com/meaning_of_Jade.html

I’m down on the couple like the rest of y’all, but the girl’s name is not, by itself, any indication of a problem.

Also, as Sonagi pointed out, going down the race trail here is misleading.

By: Sonagi

Sonagi — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:31:27 +0000

I get your point, Wangon, but I wonder if you and others noticed that the orange-vested man in the photo does not appear to be of Western European heritage. I googled in Dutch and got a photo of him and his wife:

http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnen.....iek__.html

They are a mixed race couple. He appears to be of South or Southeast Asian descent, and his biological children are mixed race anyway. I don’t think the Korean ethnicity of the girl was the primary reason why the parents did not bond with her. I think it is simply because she was not biologically theirs. Middle class couples spend tens and even hundreds of thousands of dollars on fertility treatments, rather than adopting, to have a child who shares their genes, and Korean parents avoid adopting for the same reason. I recall a recent news story about a Korean man who legally divorced his Korean wife, married a young woman from Vietnam, had two children with her, then took away the kids, divorced her and remarried the Korean woman. He went to all that trouble when there are plenty of Korean infants to adopt. Why? I would guess that he wanted only to raise a child who shared his genes.

By: Breaktrack

Breaktrack — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:27:57 +0000

The idiots (they shouldn’t be called parents) should be thrown in jail!

By: WangKon936

WangKon936 — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:53:35 +0000

Sonagi misses my point. It doesn’t matter what the parents looked like. It matters what they expected and wanted, which of course we don’t know for sure. You don’t have to have blond hair to desire that trait (i.e. Hitler).

However, my point is that given the situation, the odd excuses coming from the parents, etc. my thoughts have as good as chance as any of being on the mark.

By: Sonagi

Sonagi — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:34:57 +0000

She didn’t adapt? Me thinks what that really means is that her eyes didn’t get any bluer and her hair didn’t lighten out.

Judging by the photo, the diplomat’s biological children are not endowed with blond hair and blue eyes either.

By: littlebrownasian

littlebrownasian — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:19:53 +0000

user-81,

That’s okay. It’s nothing compared to what some in the other blogs came up with concerning the two.