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Sometimes you just can't take me to the movies.
John's using up some vacation time before it disappears so when I got out of my internship today, we took in a movie before getting Nora from daycare. We were potentially going to see Harold and Kumar, but we made it to Baby Mama. Here's my issue with this movie. They show Tina Fey in this montage of unsuccessful attempts at artificial insemination and then, also in the montage, they just show her going to an adoption agency and the guy behind the desk merely shaking his head no. She only mentions it later in terms of it taking five years for a single woman to adopt a baby.
Um, no it doesn't. She would absolutely not be rejected by any good agency. I'd approve her home study. And how long it takes is determined by how long it takes for a birth parent to pick her, hardly likely to be five years. Even international adoptions don't take that long. And they made it clear that she had money to have afforded one since she paid $100,000 for the surrogate. So whatever. That irks me.
I'm still a little annoyed at the way Juno, an otherwise really good movie, portrayed the abortion clinic. And for years I've been harboring issues with the way Bruce Willis' therapist character crosses lots of lines in the Sixth Sense, but then since he's supposed to be dead, I kind of let that one slide.
John's using up some vacation time before it disappears so when I got out of my internship today, we took in a movie before getting Nora from daycare. We were potentially going to see Harold and Kumar, but we made it to Baby Mama. Here's my issue with this movie. They show Tina Fey in this montage of unsuccessful attempts at artificial insemination and then, also in the montage, they just show her going to an adoption agency and the guy behind the desk merely shaking his head no. She only mentions it later in terms of it taking five years for a single woman to adopt a baby.
Um, no it doesn't. She would absolutely not be rejected by any good agency. I'd approve her home study. And how long it takes is determined by how long it takes for a birth parent to pick her, hardly likely to be five years. Even international adoptions don't take that long. And they made it clear that she had money to have afforded one since she paid $100,000 for the surrogate. So whatever. That irks me.
I'm still a little annoyed at the way Juno, an otherwise really good movie, portrayed the abortion clinic. And for years I've been harboring issues with the way Bruce Willis' therapist character crosses lots of lines in the Sixth Sense, but then since he's supposed to be dead, I kind of let that one slide.
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Date: 2008-04-29 03:12 pm (UTC)From:oh, and on a different topic... I asked Grace the other if she wanted to go to the mall with me. She got really excited and asked if we would get to see "the baby" again. :)
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Date: 2008-04-29 03:22 pm (UTC)From:To be honest, I don't know what the total cost is. My understanding is that this agency tries to keep costs down for people where they can and sometimes there are added costs if parents agree to help pay for stuff for the birth mother or whatever. So I'm not entirely sure. I should rummage around their site and see if they have that info posted.
I don't think we'll be up that way again until Christmasish. Grace may be disappointed at how much she'll have grown by then. ;)