YouTube Influencer Myka Stauffer "rehomes" adopted son

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Anonymous wrote:This is what happens to rehomed kids (warning-sensitive):
https://people.com/crime/tenn-couple-charged-skeletal-remains-little-girl/


Yes, it is definitely shady how those people were legal guardians of unrelated kids.


Lots of articles on it:

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/adoption/#article/part1

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/11/children-who-have-second-adoptions/575902/

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Anonymous wrote:Is raising a child with autism really this hard?

I mean I’ve obviously heard it is very difficult but I’ve never heard of someone giving their kid away because of it.


No one ever said it was autism alone. And he has the most severe grade of autism.


I don't think "most severe grade of autism" is a medical term, to be honest, and even if it were, you would think "the most severe grade of autism" is the sort of thing that might give one pause when adopting a child if you already have multiple biological kids at home and plan to get pregnant again immediately.


If only there were some way for you to learn about the grades of autism and confirm or deny if it’s a medical term...
Anonymous
The sickest thing is how they monetized the whole adoption process and commercialized this little boy’s trauma for their benefit. And what does HE get from this except more trauma. I hope their sponsors all back out and slam the door.

The sad thing is the “adoption movement” is really enabling to narcissistic people. The process is long and difficult, you get major kudos for “saving an orphan” and fundraising is common. I know because I’m in the process of adoption and am horrified by many of the bloggers and Instagram “influencers” out there. Usually attention starved and want to seem like a white savior by adopting a child of color.
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Anonymous wrote:The sickest thing is how they monetized the whole adoption process and commercialized this little boy’s trauma for their benefit. And what does HE get from this except more trauma. I hope their sponsors all back out and slam the door.

The sad thing is the “adoption movement” is really enabling to narcissistic people. The process is long and difficult, you get major kudos for “saving an orphan” and fundraising is common. I know because I’m in the process of adoption and am horrified by many of the bloggers and Instagram “influencers” out there. Usually attention starved and want to seem like a white savior by adopting a child of color.


+1, we adopted. Until you get really into it and the search/process you don't know or see all the shady stuff going on. I don't understand how the courts and government are not having more oversight or care. We were offered several shady adoptions and turned them down. I didn't want to have to tell my child later on or them figure it out.
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Anonymous wrote:Wow, how many videos does she have? Does she even spend any time outside the taping with her kids? Who would even watch that stuff when its pure marketing products?



Hahaha oh sweetie. Are you new to the world of social media influencers? This is the “it” thing now. I know a family on YouTube with a big channel, four kids and the parents are 27 and 29 and they make over $200k a year on YouTube alone, living in NC.


So low class and tacky to make a living off exploiting your kids’ privacy. What nasty people. Do people follow these people for the train wreck aspect?


It’s the “thing” to do now. Go on YouTube and see all the family vloggers with millions of subscribers. Half of them are in their 20s and make $500k+ a year by just making videos. I watch one family that’s in CA and they are mid 20s and just bought a $2million dollar house.


Wonder what will happen to all of them in a few years when people stop caring.


At least for some of them, the continue to pop out 5, 6, 7, 8+ kids in order to stave this off as long as possible and always have a fresh baby content generator in the mix.
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Was Huxley verbal?
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Anonymous wrote:She duct tape his hands because she didn't want Huxley to suck his thumbs. What I don't understand is, if Huxley was high needs, why did they decide to have another baby after adopting him? They're obviously incredibly irresponsible, and were abusive to Huxley. I'm glad he is no longer with them.


Well the story is that the new baby was an "accident"...sort of like they "accidentally" adopted a child with severe special needs.

I wouldn't be surprised if she were out getting fertility treatments as we speak.



Umm the new baby wasn’t an accident. She posted before getting pregnant that they were trying again. Don’t comment on sh*t you know nothing about.


I refuse to click on HER videos to find this stuff out. If you know for a fact that she planned to have another baby after she was well aware that she was feeling overwhelmed by her adopted child with special needs then you have just verified that she truly is a selfish ahole.


You don't have to click on any of her videos to find out about how neglectful and abusive she truly is. You can just go straight to ytmommadrama and find out the nasty truth for yourself. She was considering adopting again just in September. Myka is mentally unstable. Nobody adopts a child with SN, gets pregnant on purpose, and gets a dog shortly after that knowing the needs of all 5 kids. People should also report youtube videos that exploit children as that is against youtube TOS.
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Anonymous wrote:Rehoming adopted kids is much more common than you'd think. However, it's not usually a big deal like this because it is done by "ordinary" people instead of "pseudo-celebs" like this.

And for all of those fighting over whether or not an agency can control if you get pregnant after adoption, no, they obviously can't control your sex life, but they can deny finalization for any number of reasons, one of which is getting pregnant soon after adopting.

I grew up in the system and was legally free (aka, a ward of the state, which usually means a quick adoption). I was rehomed twice.

First time, the adopted family got pregnant right after adopting me. I was their good luck charm. They'd wanted a baby forEVer! They couldn't believe it. Tried for years! YEARS! So much money was spent and then they adopted me and boom, pregnant. Can you believe it? "Please, feel free to take anything we bought for you in your room."

Second time I don't know why, but I suspect it was because a baby became available for fostering to adopt or adoption.



I am so sorry that happened to you. You deserved better. You are right that an agency can stop finalization for a domestic adoption, because in domestic adoption there's a period of time between placement and finalization.

In this case, the adoption was finalized in China, at which point she wasn't pregnant.


Of course it was finalized in China but they had to have a home study and agency here. Most families also do a readoption in the US to make sure its not an issue with citizenship in the future. Either way, the point is, these things happen more than people realize.



Yes, but the agency can't take custody of the child between adoption and readoption. It's not the same as the time between placement and finalization in a domestic adoption.


Actually they can and older kids are placed for adoption via private agencies, its rare but it happens. A private agency, if they have foster homes, can place a child in foster care prior to adoption. But, this was probably done in a shady way under the table without a home study or agency. If the kid is lucky, they used a lawyer but otherwise often the kids are just handed over to the new family, no home study, nothing and either a POA or something else.

Or, really the kids should go into government foster care.


I'm not sure, but it seems like we're talking about different things. A private agency can absolutely take custody of a child that is surrendered by his or her parents, whether birth or adoptive. But are you saying that if an adoption agency finds out about something that a parent does that may be bad judgement but isn't illegal or abusive, like getting pregnant a year after bringing home a high needs child, that they can remove the child, after finalization, against the parent's will?

I agree with you 100% that there needs to be government and agency oversight into these transfers. I hope that is what happened here.
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Anonymous wrote:Wow, how many videos does she have? Does she even spend any time outside the taping with her kids? Who would even watch that stuff when its pure marketing products?



Hahaha oh sweetie. Are you new to the world of social media influencers? This is the “it” thing now. I know a family on YouTube with a big channel, four kids and the parents are 27 and 29 and they make over $200k a year on YouTube alone, living in NC.


So low class and tacky to make a living off exploiting your kids’ privacy. What nasty people. Do people follow these people for the train wreck aspect?


the other craze is all these large families on YouTube who keeping having kids and take the viewer along for the ride. They don't have outside jobs, the kids are all home schooled and all the parents do is film the kids. It's shocking the kids are the jobs, we now know that editing and story lines and selling the endorsements takes a lot of energy and time, so if you have 7 kids how can you homeschool them and churn out videos of high quality all the time.

The Grimwades and MazeLee are two and they also have Patreon accounts were folks send them money to watch and get exclusive content!!!! All these family bloggers need oversight, if the kids were in regular media they would have an agent, money put in accounts and contracts but these kids get no choice and their personal business is posted all over the place.
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Anonymous wrote:Oh, and she has gone on to complain about what a difficult baby little Onyx is, too. I wonder if the older ones will start to worry about the baby being "rehomed".


A lot of moms complain when they have difficult babies....


A lot of moms don’t give their kids away....


He was not a baby. Most moms complain, but you don't complain on video/online where the child and your other kids and their friends and families can hear it all. Imagine what that would do to a child. This kid will go online one day and read all about this. Imagine how that will impact him after all the trauma he's had.


I’m sorry but no, he won’t go online one day and read all this. He has severe special needs and can’t even talk. He will never go and read about himself online.
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Anonymous wrote:Was Huxley verbal?


No
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Anonymous wrote:She duct tape his hands because she didn't want Huxley to suck his thumbs. What I don't understand is, if Huxley was high needs, why did they decide to have another baby after adopting him? They're obviously incredibly irresponsible, and were abusive to Huxley. I'm glad he is no longer with them.


Well the story is that the new baby was an "accident"...sort of like they "accidentally" adopted a child with severe special needs.

I wouldn't be surprised if she were out getting fertility treatments as we speak.



Umm the new baby wasn’t an accident. She posted before getting pregnant that they were trying again. Don’t comment on sh*t you know nothing about.


I refuse to click on HER videos to find this stuff out. If you know for a fact that she planned to have another baby after she was well aware that she was feeling overwhelmed by her adopted child with special needs then you have just verified that she truly is a selfish ahole.


You don't have to click on any of her videos to find out about how neglectful and abusive she truly is. You can just go straight to ytmommadrama and find out the nasty truth for yourself. She was considering adopting again just in September. Myka is mentally unstable. Nobody adopts a child with SN, gets pregnant on purpose, and gets a dog shortly after that knowing the needs of all 5 kids. People should also report youtube videos that exploit children as that is against youtube TOS.



JFC. Did she give her kid up? Yes. But she wasn’t abusive. There is ZERO proof of her ever being abusive.
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Anonymous wrote:Oh, and she has gone on to complain about what a difficult baby little Onyx is, too. I wonder if the older ones will start to worry about the baby being "rehomed".


A lot of moms complain when they have difficult babies....


A lot of moms don’t give their kids away....


He was not a baby. Most moms complain, but you don't complain on video/online where the child and your other kids and their friends and families can hear it all. Imagine what that would do to a child. This kid will go online one day and read all about this. Imagine how that will impact him after all the trauma he's had.


I’m sorry but no, he won’t go online one day and read all this. He has severe special needs and can’t even talk. He will never go and read about himself online.


I'm a high school special educator. I work with plenty of kids who didn't talk at 4 and read well enough to google themselves and understand a simple article by high school.
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Anonymous wrote:Was Huxley verbal?


No


Yes. Huxley reportedly had at least 40 signs (that video was old, so maybe he has more now, or uses another form of AAC), signs absolutely count as verbal language.
SaltySal
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I dislike that they’re pretending he was a profoundly special needs, violent and dangerous boy. That kid is calm and nicely behaved in the videos I saw. He doesn’t look super problematic or disengaged. He looks very sweet. Poorly behaved kids don’t hide it. I don’t believe he is actually a knife wielding monster, or whatever it is they’re implying. Can you imagine your parents getting rid of the kid/sibling they don’t like? The bio kids really got a lesson. Toe the line! Yikes. The parents look guilty as hell on their video, as they should.
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