Gay Couple Adopts Brazilian Boy Who Was Rejected For Being ‘Too Black’
morning…call it a little digression from our intensive
elections here in Nigeria
Journalist Gilberto Scofield Jr. and his partner,
Rodrigo Barbosa, adopted a four-year-old boy in
2014.
Scofield published an open letter to his blog where
he opened up about the adoption process and the
challenges of parenthood.
via The Huffington Post:
The little boy, who was born to a couple battling
issues with alcohol, used to live in a shelter in
Capelinha, a small city in the state of Minas Gerais,
Brazil. When his mother died, his father abandoned
him and he was later given up for adoption where he
subsequently faced rejection from three straight
couples. Their reason, Scofield, was that the boy was
"ugly" or "too black."
Scofield sent a message to the Eduardo Cunha, a
Brazilian Congressman and current Speaker of the
Brazllian House of Representatives who is known for
his conservative views and defense of the "Estatuto
da Família", a project that can be compared to the
Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which stipulates
that only a straight couple can be considered a
family.
"No, Congressman Eduardo Cunha. Heterosexual
couples don't have a monopoly on parenthood,"
Scofield wrote. "If your religion doesn't promote
tolerance, try to pay attention to a simple fact: all
children that are adopted by a gay or lesbian couple
were abandoned, attacked or neglected by a
heterosexual couple. The same kind of couple that
you say is only capable of raising 'normal' children."
According to 2013 data from the CNA (National
Adoption Database), more than 5,400 children are
waiting to be adopted in Brazil and 80 percent of
them are over nine years old. Even with fewer
couples rejecting black children in the last few years,
29 percent of prospective adoptive parents are only
interested in the adoption of white children while
42.5 percent are indifferent.
Scofield posted the above photo of their 'new' family
to Facebook along with the caption:
The boy missed a female presence when he came to
live with us. He was always asking if he had a mother.
Of course the expectations of a kid that leaves a
shelter include a mother figure, but not all families
are made up of a mother and a father.
After two weeks, he stopped asking about a mother.
Today in the morning we were watching a movie on
the TV and we saw a scene of a sad girl playing the
piano.
"She is alone daddy, she wants to cry."
Then a squirrel came from a tree in her direction and
my son said: "Good. Now she will be happy. He is
going to be her daddy."
Children can teach us a lot, my friends. The shape of
the modern family is based on loving relationships. Is
there true love? Call it family.
How touching.
PH sentia falta de uma figura feminina quando
chegou aqui. Ele sempre perguntava se tinha mãe. É
claro que a expectativa…
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