NP-And OUr Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos-The Story
on 3/4/01 12:07 AM, Robert Holliston at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Yeah, I read this, too. I was appalled to think that this poor young woman
is
> having her dirty linen aired because she is the daughter of a celebrity. I
> beg all of you not to go there.
> Among all Canadian rags, I hate the National Post. It's like the [American]
> National Review, except stupider.
> Kilauren Gibb is obviously enduring some tough times. So have we all: let's
> let her deal with them in privacy and in her own time, the way we all did.
> That said, I hate to emerge from lurkdom to say something which may be
> construed as negative. Joni's giving up her daughter for adoption was
> selfless and wise. Her wish to contact her daughter thirty years later was
> understandable. Her claim that she now has a family complete with
> grandchildren has always struck me as self-absorbed and fraught with
> potential difficulty. When you give a child up to adoption, surely you
yield
> parenthood to the adoptive parents.
> Yuck! I'm disgusting even myself - this is a private matter and should be
> treated as such.
>
> Ashamed of our Canadian media, and not for the first time,
> Roberto
I just have to respond to Roberto, because I fail to understand why he objects
to the exposure of the serious problem in Canada of false allegations in the
family courts. If he thinks that 20 month old children should be exposed to
multiple allegations of child abuse without substantiating evidence, and
should have their entire paternal family eliminated as a result, then I just
have to disagree with him. The National Post did not cover most of the more
controversial and lurid details of this case, but the family courts of Canada
are sick, and they destroy infant children like Joni's granddaughter on a
daily basis. The reason why they got so sick in the first place is because
the media does not hold the court accountable for its bad decisions. As for
being ashamed of the National Post, it is the leading national newspaper in
the country after less than three years of publishing in this country. It
would seem that very little of the Canadian public agrees with Roberto. I
also feel a great compassion for Joni Mitchell, as she has had to deal with a
very disturbed situation and with no end in sight. I think she has every
right to be falling in love with her beautiful granddaughter, who looks just
like her, and that does not take away from the adoptive grandparents at all.
I don't mean to be rude, but Roberto doesn't know the whole picture here, and
it is not pretty.
Louise
