This "oooh that's such a first world problem" malarky

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is it just me that finds it a little bit wanky as a stand alone comment then?
It's just started mushrooming a bit and is rather getting on ones tits.

sorry.

This:
It's tantamount to telling someone there are kids starving in Africa because they're full up and can't finish their dinner

WE could just write "stop being a whiny ass baby" instead, it quite often is interchangeable.

Mirai

Anyone who goes through the adoption process with the intention of it becoming a feel good exercise about their ego is not suitable to adopt any child, not least one who is from a different country and heritage.

Savour parenting is only of benefit to the child removed from their social situation, and to an extent, in the immediate, that is a worthy thing, regardless of the motivation, for a period of time. But it's not even a finger in the dam... If you really want to help a developing country, you invest your time an efforts in helping people as a whole, not as a solitary act.

*Saviour

I quite like it, to me its the same as , ffs, get a grip or on Netmums the lovely eyeroll. It really doesn't bother me, it just a phrase thats crept into most Internet forums now.

Has anyone seen the website www.whitewhine.com

It's a site dedicated to facebook updates that consist of first world problems. Some of them are quite funny, to laugh at not with.

Mirai - yea what everyone else has said about adoption but also that the country in question is absolutely not a third would country by just about anyone's definition (except it seems rather sheltered americans at a push maybe "second" world. My son survived a 26 week premmie birth due to the (free) healthcare in this country.

Publically stating (even if you believe it privately) that a country is "third world" implies it is backward and desperate and shows a total insularity in your thinking and lack of cultural empathy which is rather required in any healthy adoption of a child from a different country.

I'm biased anyway because I find charity adoptions difficult to swallow from a childs point of view. Like any other parent, I'm very lucky to have my lovely boy, he shouldn't feel lucky to have me, I hope that he totally takes me for granted.