The Alberta government has launched a website that features pictures, biographies and video of children who are up for adoption. I'm not sure that I like this idea — on the one hand, anything that helps kids find parents sounds good, but on the other hand, it seems like having this amount of personal revelation online and potentially archived forever would be a giant privacy/identity crisis later in life. Also, I have this kind of terrible mental image of the parents who gave these kids up for whatever reason watching the clips and weeping, but that's probably just me being maudlin.
The Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Office has sanctioned the presentation of adoptable children on the Web site.
The safety of the children featured on the site, however, is being questioned by some child welfare experts, given the problems already surrounding predators who seek out victims on-line.
(Thanks, Chris!)
