YouTube Influencer Myka Stauffer "rehomes" adopted son
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Anonymous
You confirmed the claim, so no need to try again. |
Anonymous
He’s also fielding press inquiries since this has turned into an international sh!tshow. |
Anonymous
and a homeschooler and fulltime youtuber pushing out videos all day long! |
Anonymous
Yup you also gotta go the no make-up route and pearch on the end of your bed with your crumpled looking husband holding your hand or rubbing your back now and again! |
Anonymous
On another site she was apparently also looking at adopting another child from Ethiopia with special needs! There are all sorts of posters pulling her posts on public adoptions sites where it shows she was aware about the child's needs, although of course that doesn't mean she was able to handle it! This whole blogging, Instagram, daily video thing for families is out of control. Regardless, for all of the kids how available was she anyway to manage all this and homeschool! I was looking at her "eat in a day" blog and she lived on nothing, very controlled while also breast feeding lots of posts about how that was dangerously low calories for breast-feeding mama! I'd say she had issues, once you go down this social media role you and your family have to look and act a certain way all the time! Huxley, especially as he got older, no longer fit the bill! So sad! All these mamas churning out family content all day long using their kids need to be banned or the kids need contracts and oversight! |
Anonymous
| For anyone who followed her before all this I have a question. If she gave the child away in January, how has she acted since? Is she all happy go lucky in her stories? I mean did she seem effected at all before everyone found out? |
Anonymous
I just checked out her stuff after the story came out and it looks like she either went to Bali right before or soon after saying buh bye to her adopted boy. She also posted frivolous youtube contents including one where she wrote herself a cutesy affirmation of something like "you are a good mommy!" |
Anonymous
I didn’t follow her, but since becoming familiar with her through this thread I searched a little and found that many fans were directly asking her what was going on with the boy since she had stopped talking about him. Some people speculated that adoption or special needs advocates had gotten involved and forced her to stop posting about him, and others speculated that they had “re homed” him. Other people called those fans crazy and paranoid. Many of her Instagram posts from the Jan-now timeframe started with her alluding to “hard times,” “rainy days,” needing me time more than ever, etc., but immediately turned into a sales pitch for something or other. Really disgusting, in retrospect. |
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My cousin adopted two girls from China when they were 2 and 7 months. They’re in elementary school now. It's interesting because I've had many mixed thoughts about how she's handled their adoptions, but the contrast between her and the Stauffers is still very stark.
My cousin shows them videos in Mandarin. She and her husband took Mandarin classes before the adoption and the girls now take lessons as well. Their family celebrates Chinese New Year and hangs out with other families with adoptees from China. I give her credit for doing these things, but also it's not rocket science - there are lots of simple ways to incorporate another culture into your life when you love and want to relate to someone, whether it be an adoptee or spouse or friend from another culture. I don't see ANY evidence of an attempt by Myka and James to relate to Huxley in this way at all. They were trying to whitewash him. It was always about THEM and forcing him into a certain box. It was never about loving that child at all. |
Anonymous
I think it was after January. Feb 16 she posted a photo with the boy on Instagram, talking about how awful his behavior had been the past couple of days. After that she posted a couple times a week-random life photos, how exciting their room makeover was, flowery relationship advice, selling various products, a Great Wolf Lodge trip “filled with a million smiles and memories I’ll never forget,” how much she misses Bali, pictures of the other kids with “love my babies” caption, a LV giveaway, and then a post with a photo of the boy again, with the caption “last month was the hardest month I’ve ever had as a mama.” Then back to all the cutesy stuff and hawking products. So, no. Aside from the two posts about how hard things were with that specific kid, everything else was sunshine and dollar signs, before and after the ultimate “giveaway.” |
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She is complete and utter scum. Some receipts:
https://twitter.com/ParticleSoop/status/1265824835395084288?s=19: Video of her talking about his diagnosis, that the agency discouraged them from adoption, saying it didn't matter the diagnosis, and she received photos/videos of H from his foster mother. https://twitter.com/thatbonnielass7/status/1265674874862870529 : Screenshots of the posts she made in 2018, AFTER the adoption of H, looking for a new child with "easy" special needs (but that people think are hard, so that they'd get credit for adopting a difficult child) https://twitter.com/SophRossss/status/1265864237567574016 : Video of her talking about H's therapy being too expensive while waving around a $6k bracelet https://www.instagram.com/p/CAhOvf8g0tH/ : Video of her mocking her son who is having a "bad day". |
Anonymous
I have no words ... I hope there is a legal investigation into this scam "influence" business (or whatever it's called). |
Anonymous
| She’s scum. The kid is better off despite all the trauma. |
Anonymous
They can afford a lawyer, but refused to pay for adequate therapies for Huxley? Sickening. |
Anonymous
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I've had a dog for 8 years that has been with me through thick and thin. I had a baby in November and my husband got diagnosed with Crohn’s disease in February and suddenly we are so busy and exhausted that I started to think maybe he deserves a better home? I should just give him to someone else who can take care of him.
But every time i started to go through the process of looking for another home I felt so sick and guilty and I would just think about how much he would miss me and not be able to understand why I gave him up. So instead I've made bigger strides to be the dog-parent he needs instead of just giving up. And then these people did that to an actual human being. This story has broken my heart today, I've felt so ill over it all morning. That poor sweet boy, the only solace I'm taking is that he's free of them sooner rather than later. |