Lifetime’s Newest Crop of Adoption Mistruths

I can’t believe they are still making movies like this. I had to double check the year to make sure, but sure enough this garbage was newly created in 2012 and is a new movie for the lifetime adoption propaganda machine.

So this lovely woman finds out she is pregnant and I guess for the the first time in her 34 years she asks her mother about her own birth. Guess what. Momma tells her that she was adopted.

So in about five minutes, the late discovery adoptee processes how her whole life is a lie and she wants to search for her birth family.

Luckily, her husband gets it and just happens to with with private investigators. so within another five minutes the PI has managed to call her and what’s to met. Seriously, even in movie timeline it’s the next day.

So the PI Found Her Birthmother

In like five minutes. But the best part is their conversation.

• PI: I have located your birthmother.
• Adoptee: so soon?
• PI: yes, as long as adoptions are level, then the paper trail is pretty clear.
• Adoptee: but aren’t those records confidential?
• PI: yes, but there are always those willing to betray those confidences for a price.

And then he hands over her original birth certificate!

Lifetime Network’s Adoption Miracle!

As if any adoption searches could be so easy! And the best part, is that the movie is set in Pennsylvania, which is, of course,a sealed record state and never quite so easy to conduct a search in.

So the rest of this crap ensues, there is some big mystery with her biological father had shot her Birthmother’s father. Her mother won’t answer her letters or calls and is hiding in the house like a shirking violet. And some tool, who turns out to be the uncle, keeps on telling then to keep away from her poor mother. Just heap the whole crappy plot line with more adoption stereotypes.

Why These Adoption “Movies” Piss Me Off

So here’s a great opportunity to talk about some real issues and to talk about the truth. Even if they have to have some stupid plot line, at least they could have shed some reality regarding open records and current adoption laws. And made the PIs search take a bit of time.Either that or have the PI wear a wizards hat and wave a magic wand to produce that OBC. It would be more realistic!

I can’t even believe I am watching this. It’s just horrible. The mom finally opens the door to met our adoptee, but she gets all freaked out, grabs for her bottle of pills and the tool/brother shoos them away. he’s also in cohorts with the bad guys keeping dear old dad in jail. In between the adoptee nightmare of mom being a pill popping wreck and dad a convicted murderer, I smell cover up.

Of course, I can tell already…dad is innocent, she’s gonna find out the truth and there will be some happy ending.

Yes, because adoption is always about happy