Saturday, 3 March 2007

Angelina another Mia Farrow?

According to reports, Angelina Jolie is about to adopt yet another child. This time it is a 3-4 year old Vietnamese boy she has already located.

So my topic and gripe is not only celebrity adoptions but people who think it is right to take children from their own countries and cultures and drop them in the middle of their (normally wealthy) families. Asian/ Afro -Carribean children will look different(obviously!) if adopted by white families and feel different no matter how many times they are told they are part of that family.

There are children in our countries desperate for homes. They also come in all shapes and sizes! (Please excuse me there but if you want to be trendy you can). There are so many needy kids who are crying out for love and it grates on me when I see these celebs swanning around and saying "It's OK".

IT IS NOT OK.

While I am certain the children are given love and every need is catered for which would not happen in their own country; why can't the people who have money, plough finances into the angencies that support children in their own countries? Surely this would be better?
Madonna's recent aquisition for instance is a good example here and I use my words wisely because that is how I see it. Little David's father still went to see him at the orphanage at every opportunity but now has no chance. He may think of his son being educated at a nice school etc but he must have loved his son to had made that journey to see him regularly. I hear Madonna supports agencies in David's home country and good for her.......I guess it is more Angelina Jolie who gets me more angry as she seem to think children are like a box of chocolates; she can have a child from every nationality!

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