ACC OPPOSES "WHO'S YOUR DADDY" PROGRAM(Dec. 20, 2004) The Adoption Council of Canada is calling on the adoption community to sign a petition protesting the upcoming program "Who's Your Daddy?" on Fox Television. In a note on Dec. 20, 2004 ACC President Sandra Scarth states that "ACC opposes the program as demeaning to adoptees, birth parents and the entire adoption community." ACC supports a petition, called Stop "Who's Your Daddy" on Fox, which may be found at www.petitiononline.com/rebecca6/petition.html. It was created by Rebecca Copenhaver (luvlex1017@msn.com) and reads, "To: FOX "I am starting this petition in light of Fox coming out with their newest idea of reality television. A program called "who's your Daddy" where an adopted woman get to choose between men to see if she can guess who her birth father is. Being an adoptee, I find this demeaning, disgusting and outrageous. I am sure other adoptee's, birth families and such will agree with me. So please sign this petition in hopes we can can get this show off the air. " To sign the petition, you leave your name and email address. Your name is made public, but your address is kept private. You can make comments on the signatures page and read the comments others have made. This petition is also supported by the North American Council on Adoptable Children, in an email message sent on Dec. 19 by Executive Director Joe Kroll. ABOUT THE ACCBased in Ottawa, the Adoption Council of Canada is a federally chartered, charitable organization which aims to inform and educate Canadians about all aspects of adoption, and encourage the adoption of children needing permanent homes. One of ACC's long-standing goals has been to recruit adoptive families for waiting children across Canada. In 1997, six years after becoming incorporated, ACC earned a grant from the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption (www.davethomasfoundation.org) and Wendy's Restaurants of Canada, which made the Canada's Waiting Children program possible. Thanks to their ongoing support, ACC has been able to devote considerably more time and effort to finding families for Canadian children without a permanent home. Source: Adoption Council of Canada, www.adoption.ca Copyright 2004 Adoption Council of Canada. Reproduction permitted, if credited "Source: Adoption Council of Canada, www.adoption.ca". Please make a request to reprint, so we can track where ACC news items are used. Send your request to acc@adoption.ca. For explanations of adoption terms, see Glossary. Interested in domestic adoption? Consult Canada's only national photolisting web site, "Canada's Waiting Kids", http://www.canadaswaitingkids.ca, run by the Adoption Council of Canada. It shows photos and profiles of children in care of Canadian child welfare agencies and waiting for permanent adoptive families in Canada. |
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