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• Families Found for Parents and Kids

  I know, from personal experience, how sad it is to want to be a parent desperately but be barred by biology, finances, or circumstances from doing so. And I can’t imagine how sad it is to be a child who wants a home just as desperately. I’m someone who values family over anything else, so I am huge sucker for stories like this one out of Atlanta about several children being adopted out of the foster care system into permanent homes. The family court in Fulton County finalized 30 adoptions of foster children on Saturday as part of the National Adoption Month Celebrations. Courts all over the country do this as a way to bring attention to the need for foster and adoptive families. Single dad Wallace Ponder III formally adopted the three boys he’s been caring for as a foster parent, ages 12, 10 and 6. The oldest even took a new name, becoming Wallace Ponder IV. Other new families profiled in the story were Read More... Posted Nov 17 2008, 05:31 PM by Amy Kuras with | with no comments Filed under: adoption, families, National Adoption Month, atlanta, foster children, AdoptUSKids.org

• A Real Housewife of Atlanta Spent 18k on 11-Year-Old's B-Day Party

  Last night I was flipping channels, trying not to get immersed, yet again, in financial or election news. I found a very guilty pleasure-ish escape with last night’s episode of Real Housewives of Atlanta. One of the women profiled on the reality program is a buxom blonde bombshell who was described on Jezebel as “the white woman who actually looks like one of the Wayans brothers in White Chicks,”  who threw a birthday party for her eleven year old daughter Brielle. How does she roll? She spent an estimated $18,000 on the celebration. How the hell did she do that?... Read More... Posted Oct 15 2008, 04:42 PM by SunnyChanel with | with 13 comment(s) Filed under: parties, reality TV, excess, birthday, atlanta, real housewives, spoiled children

• Extreme Makeover Home Now In Foreclosure

  Tell me you didn't think "cha-ching!" the first (only?) time you ever watched ABC's wildly popular reality show "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition." I mean, come on. Families living on the edge are suddenly given more than a half-million dollar asset. You knew, we all knew, at least some of them were going to leverage all that stainless steel and terrazo and square footage into real cash money.  Well, at least one beneficiary of soul-patched Ty Pennington's crew and Sears' product placement, errr, I mean generosity, and a town's skilled workers has turned over their extremely madeover home to the bank. The exquisitely appointment mini-mansion is in foreclosure. The family is back to where they started -- broke and with nowhere to live.   Read More... Posted Jul 30 2008, 06:02 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: ABC, foreclosure, atlanta, housing bubble, bad loans, ty pennington, poor families, rags to riches back to rags, easy credit, Extreme Makeover: home edition, the harpers

• When Mama Has Cancer

  As if having cancer weren't enough of a kick in the head, parents who are also patients then have to explain to their kids what having cancer means. It's hard to know which would be worse -- facing your own potentially close-by mortality or figuring out how to drive that information home to your kids without breaking them. How do you tell someone whose entire world wrapped up with yours that you might not be around forever? Read More... Posted Jan 28 2008, 03:30 PM by Adrienne Martini with | with no comments Filed under: kids, doll, Cancer, atlanta, sick parents, Cindy Hurst, kimmie cares

• Teen's Suicide Motivates Fight Against Child Prostitution

  I drove past our local high school the other day, and when I saw the kids gathered in small, rowdy clumps outside the school walls, I was struck by how young they are. "They look like babies," I thought. And I thought of them again when I saw this story on child prostitution. Samantha Walker started working as a prostitute when she was 15, and was basically kidnapped and brought to Atlanta. Her pimp was paid $50 for oral sex with her, but the customer, a married guy with kids, raped her and kept her trapped in a hotel room. She escaped and testified against him, but shortly after the trial ended Samantha took an overdose of depression medication and killed herself. Atlanta has a major prostitution problem (as a travel hub, pimps do good business with folks in transit) but authorities there... Read More... Posted Nov 28 2007, 07:39 PM by Kelly Mills with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: exploitation of children, abused children, samantha walker, atlanta, child prostitution