The Other One.
I am talking that Material Girl gone Limey gone A-rod gone Malawi Mom.
The news cycles must be slow because she is all they are talking about after that GM guy getting his pink slip handed to him by Obama.
Why in the world does the world press think it is any of their business whether Madonna wants to adopt another child. It's none of my business either, but since it's all the watercoolor talk I thought I would chime in. I also hope that as Google Analytics now has mapped this site as being viewed in 45 countries (including Cameroon, Ghana, Cote D'Ivoire and Kenya) someone will forward this to a friend, who forwards to a friend until it gets to the Family court in Malawi. I am a Washington attorney and I am talking to you Judge.
First of all, anyone who wants to adopt a child who is not theirs and give of their time, resources and love to any child should be applauded, rewarded and not dogged. I find it absurd that there is a minute of coverage to any alleged controversy concerning this.
She didn't knock herself up like the Octomom, she went to an African country and found a little girl named Mercy who lost her mother at birth, who would make a perfect little sister to her son David who is from the same country. Mercy. the little girl apparently, like a lot of kids in orphanages, has some other living family (somewhere), but obviously none too able or willing to care for the child because they dumped her in an orphanage where she has been for the last three and a half years. Maybe they visit. Maybe they use it as daycare- is that any kind of life for a child?
The "best interest" of the child is usually the legal standard that is employed when looking at child custody and adoption situations. Is this child better off languishing in an orphanage, even a well financed one, or with a nuclear family comprised of a caring mother and three other children- one of whom is at excellent baby-sitting age?
Other complaints range (usually from well meaning liberal british types)- why doesn't she just dump her fortune in the village so the village can raise the children themselves? Well, she is apparently building a school there and has financed a lot in that country I understand--probably out of incredible love for David, her other Malawi child. Should that be what we say to anyone who wants to adopt a child? Maybe you should find the birthmother and just give her all your money? That is not a valid objection. Madonna has maternal skills, she has the wherewithall to raise many children, and she can provide a good home (several-as many as Cindy McCain who adopted a girl from Bangladesh without international incident.)
I hope that the authorities in Malawi do not get sidetracked by issues like Madonna's checkered romantic history (whose isn't- hers just makes better press)- nor anything having to do with the child's race being different than Madonna's (Lourdes is half Hispanic and David is the same ethnicity-it's a blessed blended mixed race family.) Those are also not valid objections.
Perhaps the grandmother can be assured that she will still be able to be part of the child's life and strike some sort of deal with Madonna- grandparents visitation rights with free plane tickets.
Madonna clearly loves kids. She was a children's book author. She did a fantastic job with Lourdes obviously. Why on earth would any authority deprive her of the opportunity to bless another child with a home and family?
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