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Originally posted by TexLex
There was a commercial in baby mags last year - I cannot remember the product, Mastercard perhaps? Anyway, it was a mom (and dad?) and foreign baby returning from whatever country on a plane. It made me cry every single time I saw it, damnit.
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I will check that one out. All these stories make me cry, including the one I criticized.
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I would think that the sight of an orphanage with bedraggled new adoptive parent(s) might be less appealing and not make me want to eat Cheerios, however, you would think that some hugging would be in order!
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Oh, no way would the ad ever show the full reality...I'd never expect that. But at least show the orphanage, even if they display it as "shabby chic" and the parents could be "fake bedraggled." In other words, in my case I'd be portrayed not as a gaunt, exhausted from stomach ailments, wearing ill fitting dirty Vietnamese men's 2nd hand clothing from the army/navy store next to the hospital I'd been in, but instead with Western clothing with a "funky travel" edge to them, and freshly blown-dry hair that's been tossed about to make me look "frazzled." The parents in the Cheerios ad aren't even sitting next to eachother in the car. The ad misses the whole flurry of excitement.
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I saw a foreign adoption on A Baby Story (yes, I watched it my whole pregnancy!) - I think the babies were brought here by baby couriers - the babies were all in Baby Bjorn-like carriers and in (fancy) native dress clothing. It also made me cry!
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Some countries like Korea and Guatemala still allow for "couriers" to bring the children to the U.S. This is very convenient if you already have children and you really can't take off to go oversees. I think it's also good b/c it allows you to rest and be prepared for receiving the child, rather than jetlagged and possibly ill. But I hope these parents eventually go to their child's home country.
