TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

Tag: adoption

  • Florida gay adoption ban struck down

    Court: Florida Gay Adoption Ban Unconstitutional:

    Here’s something that may come as a surprise to some of my more conservative readers. I actually support gay marriage and this article about the Florida gay adoption ban being struck down is a good reason why.

    I make no bones about my stance of being pro-life because I was adopted. I would rather see a loving gay couple adopt children then have them end up in either an abortionists dumpster or end up on the street or end up being adopted by a straight couple who are just in it for the cash.

    I don’t see what the big deal about gay marriage is anyway. It’s not like straight people have done a whole lot for the alleged ‘institution’ of marriage. If marriage is such an institution straight people have burned the institution down and left a smoldering husk.

  • Renee Bowman was collecting checks

    Renee Bowman
    Renee Bowman

    Police: Remains May Have Been Moved Several Times:

    More details about Frog Clown over there (Renee Bowman) and her adopted foster children whose bodies were found in Bowman’s freezer.

    Police are saying that they believed the girls died while the ‘family’ was living in Rockland, Md. and that the bodies had been moved multiple times.

    The one girl who was still alive had extensive injuries.

    Charging documents described the third girl’s injuries as “extensive open, infected sores and lesions” and “eyes scarred in the corners.”

    And this is how police were tipped off…

    Neighbor Phillip Garrett found the girl walking barefoot on a gravel road in a blood-soaked T-shirt. He said she was covered in bruises. Garrett, 21, who lives two houses down from Bowman, said he brought the girl to a neighbor’s house, called 911 and ordered her a pizza. She indicated she had last eaten on Tuesday when her father was at the home, said Garrett, who realized he had met her mother once and described her as “frazzled.”

    And as I predicted Bowman was still receiving a $2,400 stipend for the girls even after two had died.

    The D.C. Child and Family Services Agency is really feeling the heat now especially since this is not the first tragedy they’ve been linked to.

  • Dead kids in a freezer

    Renee Bowman
    Renee Bowman

    Authorities Find Children’s Frozen Corpses:

    I couldn’t decide on whether to call her Homey the Clown because of her hair or The Frog because of her neck. So Frog Clown over there is 43-year-old Renee Bowman of Lusby, Maryland.

    Police were investigating her home over the weekend because of child abuse complaints.

    While police were searching the house they discovered the frozen corpses of two children in her freezer. They’re believed to be the bodies of her adopted daughters. Bowman allegedly admitted that the bodies have been in there since at least February. The girls are believed to be 11 and 9.

    There was also a 7-year-old girl in the house who Bowman allegedly beat with a shoe. The girl escaped by jumping out of a window.

    The three girls were adopted out of foster care in Washington D.C. I would lay odds that Bowman was collecting checks for the girls after they were gone.

    Thanks to Marley, Tony and Daniel for the tip.

  • Do whites need training before parenting black children?

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    NEW YORK (AP) — Several leading child welfare groups Tuesday urged an overhaul of federal laws dealing with transracial adoption, arguing that black children in foster care are ill-served by a “colorblind” approach meant to encourage their adoption by white families.

    Yet another proposed roadblock to making adoption more difficult in this country. It’s legislation like this that makes US citizens adopt from other countries rather than kids from this one.

    A 15-year-old kid gets it absolutely right…

    His youngest son, Eric Jones, 15, said the family’s makeup sometimes complicates his life, but he’s convinced that transracial adoption can succeed.

    “White or black doesn’t matter,” he said. “What counts is whether the parents are ready to take responsibility.”

    Let parents be parents.