You know, your stupid sex tapes, your faux cruxifiction, your coopting of the Kabala… I could still ignore you for all that. But adoption as a fashion accessory … that goes too far. You use your celebrity status to grease the works so you too can “save” a child like other famous people. Then you with a straight face claim that your celebrityhood didn’t help you at all. Fine. But this!
You adopt or one year old and then leave him? That’s a way to establish attachment alright. And that’s nice that your children are good with him. It’s just telling that its not your “other children.” No he’s not one of your children too, he’s just a fashion accessory. Like wearing an AIDS pin.
If it wasn’t a human life, it would be funny. As it is, it’s just sad.
I am probably the least knowledgeable person in the world when it comes to celebrities, but at least on the rare occasion that I see a picture of Angelina Jolie she has her kids with her. Madonna just picks one up and has her nanny fly it back home for her. She’s disgusting.
I can’t really get too worked up about this. Even if living with Madonna is basically just another orphanage, it’s a much nicer one. The kid will have an immeasurably better life than if Madonna hadn’t adopted him.
Are you guys seriously suggesting that a life with a major celebrity living in one of the richest countries in the world, with all the trappings of wealth (including education, health care, decent food, etc.) does not give this kid a chance at a way better life than an orphanage in a third world country?
Come on. Even saying that Madonna is shallow and the kid is just a “fashion accessory” to her doesn’t negate the fact that he’ll be well fed, educated, and giving about a gazillion times more opportunity than he’d have had in the orphanage.
That depends on what you’re planning to do with 'em when you get 'em home. And whether or not you take the time to do tribal dances with the people you’re *not * purchasing before you leave.
I want to link to my cousin’s blog, where she has some interesting things to say about adoption in Malawi. She and her husband currently work there, as he is on assignment with the US Embassy and she works for USAID. She’s incredibly intelligent and involved, so I respect her opinion. Anyhow, here goes:
Adopting in Malawi isn’t easy, and in fact it is almost impossible, but the poverty rate there is unbeleivable. If this kid gets food and an education it will be a 1000% improvement for him, even if he gets nothing else. It’s not like he was getting love and attention at the orphanage…
I react as a father with biologic kids and a daughter who was adopted from China - I hate it when people talk about adoption as a favor they are doing for someone. We parents are getting the gift at least as much as the child is. And even leaving a poor environment is a loss of culture. And I didn’t read too much else closely after my eyes hit that line about her kids said like he wasn’t now one of them. It just sounds like she’s talking about a pet.
That is exactly what I think about it, DSeid…especially the part about adoption being a favor the parents are doing for the child. The whole thing makes me cringe. Just the idea that she is going to go and pluck one kid out of an orphanage when there are so many who need help…it’s distasteful to me. It’s like she’s using him to show how altruistic she is. And yes, I did hear that she is building an orphanage for them, or some such, but it gives the impression (to me, at least), that she is using him for the poster child of the whole thing. Yuck.
I dunno…everyone is so quick to assume that she doesn’t do this for the right reasons, when we have no reason to think otherwise.
So what if we have orphaned kids in this country? The children in other countries have so much less than the orphans here…it’s an enormous problem and she’s helping by taking one kid out of the problem.
Some people think that being rich automatically makes you an asshole. She hasn’t done anything wrong. She IS doing the kid a favor. Why can’t it be a two-way benefit? Good for him, good for her and Guy Ritchie.
I’ve never heard one bad word about her parenting skills. All indicators point to a loving home and loving parents.
Oh no! That cuntastic cow bitch! How dare she adopt a needy child! I mean, it’s not like she can afford to care for him and give him an education! :eyeroll:
It’s not the adoption that’s the issue, it’s her attitude about it. “MY kids (i.e. biological white kids) get along so well with that OTHER (i.e. not really mine) kid.” Not “they all play together so well.” That casual statement says a lot about her, I think.
I think it’s great that he won’t have to live in squalor but I highly distrust Madonna’s motives in this. Not that it’s any of my beeswax or anything though.