| | Well, the saga of the Maternal Girl and her Caramel Kid continues. The boy's father (is he Madonna's baby-daddy?) says the advocacy groups challenging the adoption should go suck on a lemon. "Where were these people", he asks, "when David was struggling in the orphanage?" Where were you, papi, but that's another story.
Here's my take on the whole thing:
I assume Madonna has heartfelt reasons for wanting to adopt. God bless her for that.
I do not believe in interracial adoption, ESPECIALLY when that also entails intercultural adoption. The psyche of an adopted child is troubled as it is without a crisis of ethnic identity.
I am annoyed at the way African governments are so quick to bend the rules when it involves Euro-American celebrities, potential investors, or anyone with money to spend. If Madonna wants to adopt a Malawian, so be it, but shouldn't the Government be making sure due process is followed?
I am annoyed at rich Africans. If they did their bit and gave the way the Madonnas and Bonos and Jolie-Pitts do, would our poorer brethren be subjected to the indignities they currently endure? Would their fly-visited faces be scanned on every TV north of the equator? Would the removal of their infants from home and culture run the risk of becoming another celebrity fad for the bored West? I don't think so.
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