Madonna’s adoption - tired of the whole thing.
Ok so lets apply Occam’s Razor to the situation and here is what I get.
Madonna in the course of her charitable work begins to help orphans in Malawi. She forms an attachment to one child and subsequently adopts said child. Now with an even bigger attachment to Malawi she continues to do charitable work and spends significant amounts of her fortune helping children. Assumedly she forms an attachment to second child and wanting to give her a home and family decides to adopt said child as well. In both adoptions she has done what is necessary to ensure the adoptions are legal. At the time she decided to pursue the adoptions both children appear to have been relinquished and eligible to be adopted. In both cases Madonna’s notoriety has resulted in complications and birthfamily getting involved where they were not involved in the care of the child previously. It is reasonable to question the motives of the birthfamily given the publicity involved.
I am in no ways a fan of Madonna using her influence and celebrity to skirt the rules a country sets up for their IA program, but I do not believe that Madonna should be harshly criticized for her actions. She is helping many many orphans in Malawi and can we in the adoption community really blame her for also wanting to give one or two specific children a permanent home? Do we really want to go down the path of suggesting that Madonna’s home is not a good home? WHat do we really know? Where does that lead?
Bottom line. I am prepared to see the legal process run its course and move on.