Madonna with her son David
Mercy, the girl Madonna is said to be adopting
Sometimes? People shit me. Particularly, people who make ill-informed judgement about other people’s choices. As news breaks of Madonna’s pending adoption of a 4 year old girl called Mercy from Malawi, where she adopted her son David a couple of years ago, those ill-informed people are coming out to condemn her.
According to reports today:
LILONGWE, Malawi — Madonna is expected to arrive in Malawi Sunday,
airport officials said, as the star’s plans to adopt a girl as her
second child from the poor African country began to draw criticism.
The
luxury lodge where Madonna has stayed in the past has been fully booked
and casual visitors have been turned away. International media have
begun arriving in the capital in anticipation of her visit.
Friday, a welfare official and a person involved in the adoption proceedings said the singer plans to adopt a 4-year-old girl. But a British children’s charity has urged Madonna to “think twice” before adding another African child to her celebrity family.
Save the Children UK said Saturday that the recently divorced star
risked sending the wrong message by going through with the adoption.
Spokesman Dominic Nutt said many international adoptions are
unnecessary _ and some even feed into a criminal “adoption industry.”
Nutt said he was not suggesting that Madonna was doing anything
wrong _ but he said the whole process of international adoptions is
often flawed.
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I don't think it's a bad thing, in fact she helps. Just imagine she's taking care of those unfortunate children who are abandoned.. she's raising child, giving a great life, giving all their needs and loving them as a true child.. That's a good thing.
Once again, well said TheReal Syndey! All these assumptions that are being made based simply on TABLOID INFORMATION is making me nauseous.
Also Pinny, do you honestly think Mercy would be better off at the orphanage? Do you think any of her "needs" would be provided for her there? Her cultural needs? The need for a parent to love her and look after her? Basic needs such as clean water and medical help?
Who are we to question whether someone can provide more than "material needs" to a little girl when we do not really know the first thing about the true privates lives of one another? In my view at least she will be in the care of someone who can provide her with many many times more what she would not have if, as you are suggesting, Madonna had kept her mothering feelings to herself and left Mercy behind.