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Therapist to challenge "gay cure" ban

Listen to the interview! CNN definitely working to stop any form of therapy for young children

http://www.cnn.com/videos/bestoftv/2012/10/01/nr-intv-david-pickup.cnn

CNN's Brooke Baldwin and Elizabeth Cohen talk to David Pickup about a new law that bans reparative therapy for minors.

to find more information on the work David Pickup does, click on his website: http://www.davidpickuplmft.com/  and   https://www.narth.com/

David H. Pickup, M.A.

Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist

Reparative Therapist

Doctoral Studies: California Southern University

Member: American Psychological Association, California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists

Board member: National Association of Research and Therapy for Homosexuality

What could you do with 13 Billion dollars and what would you do to keep it?

Updated Research:13 BILLION in Profits for the Adoption Industry

Claudia Corrigan DArcy

JULY 30, 2013

How Much  Money is Really Made off of the Separation of Mothers & Babies?

So this morning marching orders for work to be done came via Facebook.  My chart with projected profits of the adoption industry that I had created a while ago and that lead to a discussion on Facebook.

Fertility Clinics & Adoption Services: An Industry Analysis from 2000

Now, these numbers that we have are based off of a market data research report looking into the  Fertility Clinics & Adoption Services. The report was released in 2000 and was based off of 1999 numbers. My chart, which I have since this AM, updated to project the profits in adoption to 2015, is taking their base number of $1,400,000,000 and uses the estimate 11.9% growth rate provided in the report to give us the numbers.  I do not have access to the report and so the details from it that were used in the original chart and the new updated one come from ExiledMothers.com who culled it from Adoption.com and I am assuming that somewhere, someone had their hands on it and read the thing! The report does not seem to be available anymore, but there is a copy at the Library of Congress.

Over $5,763,699,255,82 in Profits from Adoption in 2013

Yep, close to 6 billion dollars made from the separation of mothers and children and the manufacturing of families for profit. Here’s the update chart, which can also be found on the Truth About the Adoption Industry page here.

The 6 BILLION Adoption Industry Profit projection is LOW!

Now, since there are obvious flaws in the projected adoption profits chart. Old research, a projected growth rate that was probably too low in for the mid 2000 when international adoptions were flourishing and too high for the past few years that have seen rates fall due to countries  and some agencies closing and a greater need for the adoption agencies to pump up their marketing to find more babies all make the numbers a gross estimate.

I dislike gross estimates, so I went a hunting.

And to my delight, there was a new adoption industry market data analyst report published just this year!!  Even better this report does NOT group  the fertility industry in at all but is just Adoption & Child Welfare Services in the US.

This NEW Adoption Industry research puts the REVENUE made from Adoption related services at 13 BILLION.

Shall we repeat that?

Thirteen Billion Dollars Made in Revenue from the Adoption Industry.

Which basically means that for the last god knows how long, we have been screaming about only HALF the profits made by the adoption industry. Less than Half. What this report will give us is firm numbers and new projections into the very heart of the adoption industry: the chain of money flow and the all the charts we could hope for!

What is the Adoption & Child Welfare Services Industry?

This industry includes nonresidential social assistance services for children and young adults. Private sector and nonprofit establishments in this industry offer services in the areas of adoption, foster care placement, drug prevention, guidance and self-help, life skills training and positive social development. This industry excludes orphanages and group homes, day care services, youth recreational sports centers, sports teams and leagues and scouting organizations.

Adoption agencies and providers of child welfare services faced a rocky road during the recession, as private donations dwindled and federal funding remained stagnant. Improvement is on the horizon, however. The industry’s own revenue streams will also improve, as their endowment funding recovers. While government spending on social services will likely lessen, corporate donations will blossom again.

This report covers the scope, size, disposition and growth of the industry including the key sensitivities and success factors. Also included are five year industry forecasts, growth rates and an analysis of the industry key players and their market shares.

Adoption Industry Products

• Adoption services
• Foster & guardianship services
• Youth service programs
• Youth counseling & developmental services
• Shelter services
• Other social assistance services

Adoption Industry Activities

• Adoption placement services
• Abandoned infant assistance
• Foster care placement services
• Child guidance services
• Child abuse prevention services
• Youth community center services (except recreational)
• Self-help programs for teens
• Teen outreach services
• Youth guidance services

That’s ALL what is available on line right now. As it is a new report, they are hiding the glorious guts. Can you tell I am just drooling with desire to get my hands on this thing? Current adoption profit numbers? Be still my fact finding heart! This is better than designer shoes on clearance or a fab flea market find!

That’s the good news. The bad news is that the report is $950.00 to purchase.

I have contacted the publishers, and several resellers inquiring about any possible discounts and “we will talk about how wonderful you are in AdoptionLand “if you give us the report. I have a feeling that that is not going to work,  as I have been told no by most, but not by all yet. I’m still not hopeful; I think it’s just that they have not gotten to my request yet. I have found some high level folks on Twitter and shall see what I can do, but… These data market reports want their money too.

I am hoping that they will see the benefits of giving me the report. Overall, while IBISWorld is well known in the business to business sector, they don’t seem to have a lot going on from the pirate sector of people knowing about them or talking about them. I would love to sing their praises, credit them on the research,  and provide lovely back links for their SEO. Hell, I’ll post and promote their Press releases a for the rest of my days if I could get this report! Plus, anything I do publish on outsource places henceforth, like the New York Times, or whatever, I would link back and credit them as super great human beings and a totally ethical company. That’s  what I would LOVE to do, but so far I only have a bad full of hope.

Meanwhile, we KNOW the big adoption agencies have their hands on this report and are probably coming up with new an improved propaganda messages in order to continue their profit growth. So now the question is, if I can’t manage a trade for the market research,  can we get $950.00 for this?

Firm 2007 Numbers on Adoption Profits at 11 Billion!

Even if this report is not in my hands…yet.  I little bit more of sleuthing has revealed to me data from the US Census Bureau which in 2007 did an industry analysis of the “Child and Youth Services Segment” which is where adoption falls in. The official coded number of this is NAICS 62411 and that provides interesting search results as well!

So according to the 2007 US Census Industry numbers, “receipts” is net revenue not including taxes.

Description	Estab- lish- ments	Receipts ($1,000)	Receipts % of U.S.	Receipts per capita ($)	Annual payroll ($1,000)	Paid employees
United States	9,723	11,399,091	100.00	38	4,148,590	155,730

$ 11,399,091,000.00 in profits from the adoption industry overall. Over four billion dollars made by persons in the legalized version of child trafficking.

Editorial Note:  "We are quite aware that the child distribution business which our family courts and many aggressive lawyers engage in,  amounts to billions in revenues.  Whether it be 3 or 13 or 30 billion is of little import. What is critical  is that our nation's focus should not be on money but on the fact that biological children are being transported out of the natural family and into God knows where, which is driven in the main by financial concerns. Money is the power to make decisions and the love of it should not be a factor in the separation of a biological child from their birth-parents."

http://www.adoptionbirthmothers.com/adoption-industry-13-billion-in-profits/

Creating Your Perfect Robot of Yourself or Your Perfect Partner To Marry?

If you could create a robot to look like you, what would be your purpose?  Would you create it to go to work for you?  To be the father in your home, or the husband?

How about creating a robot to act as your wife or husband?  A male robot to play the role of the husband, female robot to play the role of the wife in the home.  Will they be involved in raising the children?  Will they be emotionally able to love, nurture, teach right from wrong?

Creating our perfect partners in the form of artificial beings would be amazing, exciting, and fulfilling.  Right?  But what happens when life challenges arise in the home, challenges which happen to all families?  Will these forms of couples be able to withstand the hardships in relationships?  Something to think about when you read the article.

Click on link

https://futurism.com/the-relationship-of-the-future-a-man-married-a-robot-he-built-himself/

http://eagnews.org/parents-teachers-slam-nc-school-districts-mandatory-white-privilege-training/

White middle schoolers forced to stand in front of classmates, apologize for ‘privilege’

June 21, 2017 By Victor Skinner 

http://eagnews.org/parents-teachers-slam-nc-school-districts-mandatory-white-privilege-training/

EDEN, N.C. – “White privilege” training in the Rockingham County school system is causing a lot of headaches.

Superintendent Rodney Shotwell told Rockingham Now the state threatened to withhold federal funding when a disproportionate number of minority students were suspended in a special exceptional children’s program in 2012 and 2013, so district leaders implemented mandatory “equity training” for school staff.Now, some teachers are complaining that the training materials focused on white privilege and transgender issues violate their principles, while parents are speaking out about other teachers who are taking what they learned and imposing it on students.
At a May 8 school board meeting, parent Farran Wilkinson took to the podium to out one educator who recently forced white students to apologize to black students for their white privilege, according to the American Lens.“I just want to share light on a situation that happened at Western Rockingham Middle School where a teacher caused some of her students to stand up and apologize to other students based on their unequal opportunities of education, so I would like to know how our schools can allow an educator to humiliate, bully and degrade students,” Wilkinson said. (60 minute mark in the YouTube video) “This is not a matter of race but a matter of a teacher using fear and the embarrassment of children to satisfy her own personal anger or beliefs.”
The Lens reportedly contacted parents in the school district and identified the teacher as sixth grade English teacher Tarsha Clark.“American Lens was told by one parent that the incident was more specific than Wilkinson stated,” the news site reports. “According to that parent, Clarke forced her white students to stand in front of the class and apologize to the minority students for their ‘white privilege.’”
Wilkinson stressed that none of the students responsible for inequalities in the school system, questioned why parents were shut out when they inquired about the incident, and urged board members to set an example with the teacher responsible.Western Rockingham Middle School Principal Stephanie Wray alleged the incident never happened, while Shotwell told Rockingham Now district officials are investigating the allegations.
Wilkinson wasn’t the only person to complain about the white privilege training at the May board meeting.Rockingham County Republican Chairwoman Diane Parnell addressed board members about the training videos used by the district, which allegedly promoted the end to “evilism, racism and heterosexualism.” Heterosexualism is the perspective that heterosexuality is the normal sexual orientation and homosexuality is abnormal.
“The reason I know about the equity training is a group of teachers came to us because they felt like they needed help,” Parnell told the school board. “This equity training – that was mandated upon them that they got no credit hours for and they must sit through this on their own time – was something against their Christian principles, and if you take a look at it as I did, those equity training videos, it did seem to be against their principles.”“Look around,” she said. “Most of the people in here I almost guarantee you are heterosexual. Do you want to get rid of them?”
Shotwell told Rockingham Now that the district made some tweaks to the training to accommodate some of the concerns, but officials are pressing forward with the training despite the backlash.“It still deals with some current issues that we have, but I don’t think the controversy that some people might have thought could potentially be in the gird and forth modules are going to be there,” he said. “… We changed it to try to meet the needs, but we’re still doing the training, but it’s just different material that we’re using.”
He also justified the offensive training by alleging teachers do not have to actually believe in the viewpoints promoted by their employer, they just have to endure equity training for their own good.“I told a teacher at one of the trainings I went to, you know, ‘I’m not asking you to change your beliefs by any stretch of the imagination,’” he said. “‘It’s just simply letting you know that kids are going to come to you from sometimes a home that’s a little bit different values than yours and you just need to know that they’re there, but I’m not asking you to change.’”And while some complained directly to the school board, others published their opinions online.
An editorial in the Rockingham Update attacked not only the training program, but also the white privilege theory it’s based on.Retired community college professor William James wrote:
Please note: the whole notion that “people of color” are by definition “oppressed,” by their “white privilege” oppressors and are victims of a structurally unjust American society is mostly bunk. Scholar Thomas Sowell studied these issues years ago and found that there were “people of color” whose success rates exceeded those of whites. Asian-descended (India, Japan, China, etc.) Americans on average had higher incomes and higher academic performances than whites. Some oppression!
Sowell also found that among our black population, those who were the children of immigrants from the Caribbean or elsewhere had markedly higher incomes and academic performances than native-born ones. The former were never taught that they were the hopeless, despairing victims of Open Source’s evil racist society, and saw America as it is: a land of opportunity. They seized that opportunity. Good for them!
He also put the diversity training program into perspective.Most dismaying is that all the time, money and energy to preach “diversity” and whatnot take away from time spent on arithmetic, spelling, reading, science or history! We understand that elementary teachers are allowed barely any paper to print out tests and worksheets. They feel that their hands are tied at maintaining classroom order and discipline. Exactly what we said about the bureaucrats two weeks ago – while spending gobs of money, they interfere with the program more than they assist it.But, by golly, the teachers will know all about “multiculturalism” and “diversity” and the kids will know to resent whites or feel guilty for being one! A triumph for bureaucracy!