Perfectly well said. You are not disposable. Repeat it as many times as you need to until it becomes as much a part of your story as the trauma. With child abuse mixed in. Myka Stauffer, 32, and her husband James posted a tearful video last Tuesday saying they've decided to 'rehome' their adopted 4-year-old son Huxley. Thank you for sharing this list!! That’s an absolutely wonderful piece of writing.
But all of sudden, they say it is for his privacy/dignity.
The video began like so many others. Because, that’s just a mere taste of the abandonment adoptees face over their lifetimes. I really hope H is in a safe, healthy and loving family. I was frustrated about how much they have shared about H in social media and he had no privacy at before he was sent with another family. Twice abandoned. Can u find out where he is at. You weren’t alone, and you never will be again. We hope we are making changes that will help impact your child’s future. I hope everyone unsubscribe’s from Stauffer Garage as well.
Because, that’s just a mere taste of the abandonment adoptees face over their lifetimes. Thank you for this! Kids are not props. I truly hope the active county investigation into the Stauffers leads to some type of charge, but when that inevitably won’t happen, at the absolute bare minimum, new legislation that will prevent private “re-homing” in the state of Ohio, if not across America. I feel your passion and pain and what has happened angers me extremely. I’m devastated by this story and grateful you shared it. there is a Good chance, people, that the biological kids also don’t have empathy for Huxley!!
As an adoptee, this whole situation has exposed to me that my greatest subconscious fear has always been that if I was ‘too hard’ or ‘too difficult’ I would again be abandoned. The seemingly innocuous product recommendations from a fraudulent parenting expert put money in your pocket any time someone followed a link and purchased something from the website (even for days after the original click took place). When given the chance to atone for your despicable actions, you played the victim card and doubled-down on narcissism. I would looooooove to see their adoption agency address this as well—I’m interesting in hearing what work they are doing as a private company to prevent adoptees from getting lost in the system such as this.
, let’s say $.01 per view, your (former) adopted son Huxley’s “Gotcha Day” video—which garnered more than 5 million views before you changed the privacy settings this week— could have made you upwards of $50,000. Thank you for taking the time to learn from adoptee experiences, Emily. Now, authorities in … She will not remember this trauma, but it will stay in her subconscious as she lived it.”
Please remember this, Huxley.
Thank you for this post. (It’s hard to even write rehoming in the context of a child, but I digress…). Those pesky fees can get. We’re not gonna trade him in, we’re not gonna return him. I couldn’t.
Thank you for writing this. Although, we did notice the luxury Bali vacation you took with the rest of your family shortly after he mysteriously disappeared from your posts. I second this comment! It is clear from your pathetic attempt to defend your actions, you are not interested in accepting culpability or telling the truth needed for real healing. Thank you. ... At the end of the day, this letter is not for you, Myka Stauffer. Not to mention the commission you earned from those Amazon short urls listed in the description of your videos.
Ugh. On the surface, the industries seem to have nothing in common. Adoption was an act meant to be so pure and that has drastically changed. The level of narcissism her and her husband have shown just for the sake of being ‘influencers’ is repulsive.
You defended. When given the chance to atone for your despicable actions, you played the victim card and doubled-down on narcissism. He’s our boy.” Behind that false promise, it was clear even then how you truly saw Huxley- as merchandise. I just want to thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for this.
Me too, Aubrey.
How much money did you amass with the “fundraiser” to pay for Huxley’s adoption from China?