Advocates don’t adopt “Orphan”

“There’s something wrong with Esther,” reads the poster for “Orphan,” a movie out from Warner Bros. on Friday. Christian adoption agencies are countering that claim with their own: “There’s something wrong with millions of children having no family.” A trailer for the R-rated movie shows a nun warning the woman about to adopt Esther that […]

“There’s something wrong with Esther,” reads the poster for “Orphan,” a movie out from Warner Bros. on Friday.

Christian adoption agencies are countering that claim with their own: “There’s something wrong with millions of children having no family.”

A trailer for the R-rated movie shows a nun warning the woman about to adopt Esther that “adopting an older child is not an easy decision.” A trailer shows the child, once adopted, terrorizing the people she meets.


“We want to ensure that the emotional impressions created by the movie not be absorbed into the American bloodstream unquestioned,” said Jedd Medefind, president of the Christian Alliance for Orphans, and the last director of the White House Office of Faith-based and Community Initiatives in the Bush administration.

“We have no desire to ‘bash’ Warner Bros, but we do want to talk seriously about the real horror so many children face growing up without families.”

A Web site developed by the alliance, OrphansDeserveBetter.org, seeks signatories for a petition to Warner Bros. calling the movie “misleading and unhelpful.” It also features stories of successful adoptions.

When complaints surfaced about the movie, Warner Bros. agreed to remove one line from its trailer: “It must be hard to love an adopted child as much as your own.”

(Photo credit: http://www.christianalliancefororphans.org)

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