Brown children are the fashion accessory for the 21st century. You can't expect her to have just one! Look how far ahead the Jolie-Pitts are.

Sybarite: Brown children are the fashion accessory for the 21st century.

I want an African Baby

Well you need one of both to breed them.

/she is just a business woman
//uncut the price of any country!

Ok, Madonna, wtf, srsly!

Are there not enough children languishing in our piss-poor pre-adoption system for her to chose from? Can't she walk into an orphanage and take as many as she wants?

/adopted at 7
//at that age, I was lucky to be taken
///plenty more where I came from

I've heard the expression "Can't blame a guy for trying"...

But in this case, yeah, I blame Madonna for being so selfish so as to make a mockery of the adoption process and trying to tear apart a family [who doesn't even want her money]. Again.

Who the fark is she, Queen of the world? You can't forcibly adopt a child away from her parents just because you want the kid. If this is true, Madonna is out of her mind.

So are there just not any children in the United States that celebrities feel are worthy of adoption?

Oh wait, that's right. Most adoption agencies in the US wouldn't see celebrities to be fit parents, because they're not.

Well, it worked great for Mia Farrow and Woody Allen.

Saborlas: Are there not enough children languishing in our piss-poor pre-adoption system for her to chose from? Can't she walk into an orphanage and take as many as she wants?

/adopted at 7
//at that age, I was lucky to be taken
///plenty more where I came from

What's the deal with adoption in the U.S.? I always hear there are plenty of kids waiting to be adopted, yet it seems many (qualified) potential parents are forced to go to places like China to adopt.

Saborlas Are there not enough children languishing in our piss-poor pre-adoption system for her to chose from? Can't she walk into an orphanage and take as many as she wants?

No, she can't. Madonna wants to out-do Angelina Jolie, so it must be a brown baby, thank you very much. The only reason that Madge adopted that first Malawian baby was to play catch up to Jolie.

Madonna has to be the first - the trend-setter - in everything, and it's killing her to see Jolie take the lead in this regard. It's absurd, but such is the life of celebrities.

/thinks Jolie is doing it out of genuine love and compassion

/gotta have 'em all!

UtileDysfunktion: What's the deal with adoption in the U.S.? I always hear there are plenty of kids waiting to be adopted, yet it seems many (qualified) potential parents are forced to go to places like China to adopt.

There aren't enough room for the kids, but the "red tape" is so think that it's next to impossible to adopt one here. It's simply easier to go overseas.

Somewhere, Dennis Rodman is going "WTF is wrong with that bitach!"

Epsilon: If this is true, Madonna is out of her mind.

Even if it's NOT true, we're pretty sure she's out of her mind.

Aren't there any kids in Malawi that don't have parents?

"There's lots of bad and dead parents out there."

/Not obscure here

omg, they are not Chihuahuas or Louis-Vuitton handbags!eleventy!!!!!!

*facepalm*

I remember some idiot girl in my high school who said, "Ohmygod, I would so like to adopt a black baby. Imagine all the cool things you could do with their hair! And you could dress them like a little ganster, it would be soooooo cute." I really wanted to shake her until her head snapped off for being so stupid and shallow.

Children are little newbie people, not fashion accessories, animated dolls, or your ticket to self fulfillment. They eventually grow into bigger standard people and need to be treated better than that.

That article is barely literate.


It is believed the singer plans to give the child back to her family when she is six. But the family have turned down her offer.

The child's grandmother, Anaphiri Ngalande, says, "When Mercy is no longer a baby we want her back.

Does she have the child now? How'd she get her? Facts, please!

Nestea Plunge: She's going to smuggle the kid out in her cooch.

She could probably take out half the village.

I just hope this kid knows how to tweeze...

They're not children to them, they're livestock.

Sybarite: Brown children are the fashion accessory for the 21st century. You can't expect her to have just one! Look how far ahead the Jolie-Pitts are.

Agrees!

Now has five more minutes of material.

All those orphaned babies, toddlers, and bigger kids in Africa, and she wants to take a baby from actual blood parents.

Eeee-deeut.

I come from a family with 7 children, 5 of which are adopted. The issues in adoption are quite simple. No value judgments below, this is just the way it is.

The largest issue is that 90% of adoptive parents ONLY want to adopt newborns. They don't want a child that's 3 or 4, having bounced through home after home and now has serious mental, emotional, or physical problems. They want a child 6 months or younger. The wards of the state and other children up for adoption are generally much older (4-9 is the common window). Most adoptive parents would rather not adopt and not have kids than adopt someone who needs constant medical and/or psychological care.

If troubled teens and unwed mothers would make the decision to give their children up before birth (and stick with it), things would work out better. However, most decide to keep the child, even in a deteroriating situation. Again, no value judgment, it's just the facts.

I see what she's doing here...

UtileDysfunktion: What's the deal with adoption in the U.S.? I always hear there are plenty of kids waiting to be adopted, yet it seems many (qualified) potential parents are forced to go to places like China to adopt.

For US adoptions, prospective parents are put through the ringer with regards to income, family stability, ethics, mental fitness, health, etc. Each state has its own particular requirements, and you have to weigh the pros/cons between 'open' and 'closed' adoption. Birth parents (birth mothers esp.) have many opportunities to change their minds - in some states, up until the last 't' is crossed & the last 'i' dotted on the last piece of legal paperwork filed - so adoptive parents risk becoming financially drained & emotionally attached to a child who may be legally taken from them. The entire process can take years.

For most foreign adoptions, the only prerequisites are time & money...and even then, it usually takes far less time than a US adoption. I think we can all do the math here.

Besides, little black babies are so much cuter to carry around than a Chihuahua-stuffed pink Prada bag - you can dress them up in more outfits!

Sybarite: Brown children are the fashion accessory for the 21st century. You can't expect her to have just one! Look how far ahead the Jolie-Pitts are.

They are the new pet dogs.

I'm deeply disturbed that even a few people in the world think it's okay to 'collect' children.

/does not compute
//bsod

Will somebody just shoot her already?

/and Barbra Streisand while we're at it?

That's a great idea Madonna...your marriage is on the rocks, but bullying a small African family into giving up their kid? Very stable life you have there.

So what's the going rate for a black kid?

Sarcastica75: omg, they are not Chihuahuas or Louis-Vuitton handbags!eleventy!!!!!!

*facepalm*

But they could be *turned into* handbags. She's just cutting out the expensive middleman.

She just needs a refill youth providing virgin blood.

FuzzyNoNoseChimp: UtileDysfunktion: What's the deal with adoption in the U.S.? I always hear there are plenty of kids waiting to be adopted, yet it seems many (qualified) potential parents are forced to go to places like China to adopt.

There aren't enough room for the kids, but the "red tape" is so think that it's next to impossible to adopt one here. It's simply easier to go overseas.

Basicly you have to be white christen rich and be active in church.

BabyDumplings: She just needs a refill youth providing virgin blood.

Psht. She doesn't need virgin blood. She only needs blood that is like a virgin's.

Poor Madonna, it's really sad that there's such a shortage of adoptable children past the baby stage here in the US.

Oh wait...

UtileDysfunktion: What's the deal with adoption in the U.S.? I always hear there are plenty of kids waiting to be adopted, yet it seems many (qualified) potential parents are forced to go to places like China to adopt.

There are plenty of kids available for adoption. You have to wait if you want a white one, so that's what all the fuss is about.

Master Metroplex: Now has five more minutes of material.

Boy howdy did she have nice cans.

Bag of Hammers: Was waiting for someone to make that ref to AbFab. I am officially not-disappointed.

As for the whole adoption situation in the US...I know three couples who have tried to adopt. Two have gone overseas and one tried to stay in the US. Guess which one to this day still doesn't have a kid?

Why on earth would that be, you ask? Well, in New Jersey especially (in a blue state, no less), the directive is for kids to stay with the biological parents (you'd think 'family values' would be a Repub thing, no?). Oh, sure, discard the fact that the parents in question were well off, the town where the kid would be living would be clean and safe, and the mother would have been one of the most nurturing people I know, but as long as the kid had her real mother, things were 'right'. Bullshiat.

/even though it wasn't me, still bitter.

Black babies! Gotta catch em all! They're the new Pokemon, but for the rich and stupid. God forbid Madonna could adopt any needy American child...I suppose it doesn't have the same amount of liberal cred as a little black baby. Just like giving a damn about America is SOOO uncool, the new hotness is caring about countries that you're never going to live in, never going to visit (if you're smart, that is, who the hell wants to go to Africa?), and never going to come into contact with those people you care so much about. Why do something about poverty and needy children in your home country, it's totally not like those unwanted kids are going to affect you in the future by possibly being lifelong prison inmates, meth dealers/makers, burdens on society, etc.(not that all foster-care kids are bad, obviously), it's way more important to pretend like you care about everyone else EXCEPT your own countrymen! Gotta get that oh-so important accessory, gotta beat Angelina Jolie and claw your way back to relevance!

Madonna has made the vast bulk of her fortune from American consumers, yet she consistently spits in our faces with this crap. Bashing the US, living in England, ignoring needy Americans, and basically not giving a damn about the people who made her rich in the first place. Oh, but I'm sure she expects us to buy whatever pitiful, desperate attempt at relevance she vomits out, doesn't she? We Americans are too greedy, stupid, spoiled, lazy, etc., etc., but that certainly doesn't keep her from gleefully pocketing our money! Fark you, Madonna, you old, irrelevant, tranny-looking coont. I used to be a HUGE fan, now I wouldn't give that horrid biatch one farking PENNY of my money.

Oh, and for heaven's sakes, PLEASE wax Lourdes' unibrow and mustache! It is basically child abuse to let such a gorgeous little girl walk around with that horrific facial hair. I'd bet a million dollars that Madonna does it on purpose, because her daughter is young and gorgeous, while Madonna is getting nastier, older, and stringier every day. She is a truly horrid person, and I hope she dies in a fire. Soon.

/I know the US isn't perfect, but it's her country, she should give a damn about it

The way I understand the situation for US adoptions is that they are very costly, very uncertain, and take a long time. Why spend thousands and thousands of dollars to try to adopt a US child when it could be taken away from you if the biological mother has seller's remorse two years dwon the line? Personally I think that with adoptions, it ought to be the equivalent of abortion, in a legal sense. Meaning that you'd damn well make sure that you want to give up the kid for adoption, because once you sign the papers, it ought to be like you never had the kid to begin with (hence, like an abortion). The only loophole that would be allowed, and this would be applied very narrowly, would be if one or both biological parents can provide proof that they were essentially forced to put the child up for adoption. And even then it would be a matter of how long the child has been with the adoptive parents. Been with the parents for 6 months (esp. if it's a younger child) then there might be grounds to overturn the adoption. Wait ten years to challenge the adoption, sorry, out of luck.

matt2891: The way I understand the situation for US adoptions is that they are very costly, very uncertain, and take a long time. Why spend thousands and thousands of dollars to try to adopt a US child when it could be taken away from you if the biological mother has seller's remorse two years dwon the line? Personally I think that with adoptions, it ought to be the equivalent of abortion, in a legal sense. Meaning that you'd damn well make sure that you want to give up the kid for adoption, because once you sign the papers, it ought to be like you never had the kid to begin with (hence, like an abortion). The only loophole that would be allowed, and this would be applied very narrowly, would be if one or both biological parents can provide proof that they were essentially forced to put the child up for adoption. And even then it would be a matter of how long the child has been with the adoptive parents. Been with the parents for 6 months (esp. if it's a younger child) then there might be grounds to overturn the adoption. Wait ten years to challenge the adoption, sorry, out of luck.

This.

I know a couple who tried to adopt in the US. They tried public adoption, and the red tape was so insane that they gave up after $10,000 and five years' worth of trying. They weren't looking for a white baby, either. Then they tried private adoption. 30,000 more dollars later they had a baby at home. Two weeks later, the birth father changed his mind and asked for the baby back. Also made a comment to them along the lines of "Thanks for the free babysitting."

They looked into international adoption at that point, but were feeling too burned out to go through with it. They hired a surrogate instead. Another $25,000 later they have a baby. She's pretty cute, too.

Are there really so few actual orphans in the world that this horror story of a woman needs to make repeated attempts to get a child that isn't an orphan and isn't available?

If that is the case, good for the world.

You can always tell when Madonna is planning a tour because she starts divorce proceedings and/or goes child shopping.

For some reason she reminds me of Cruella Deville in 101 Dalmations when she is trying to steal those little puppies. I wonder if the villagers all hide their kids when they hear Madonna is visiting?!