If you want to help people in Africa, you don’t just take away their children while they have a mother.

All these PR adoptions are encouraging trafficking and making an industry out of “selling” children.

When poverty is so poignant, children who have parents will be taken away and given to wealthy Westerners.

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Madonna cannot have bio children due to her age, so I can understand why she is adopting.
Plus, she is not having 6 children within 3 years, but actually gave a home and time for the children to adjust.

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I would think there are MANY who adopt with good intentions. I’m not completely ruling out the possibility that some women adopt dark skin children because it is in fashion (although I am particularly finding it hard to believe the number of adoption cases you have stated at your private school), but those people are in the minority.

If you adopt in Africa, a predominantly dark skin continent, you are more prone to adopt a black baby. The assumption would then be that ‘rich women’ that adopt in Africa do it because they want a baby with darker skin to appear more worldly, when in fact, Africa as a continent sees a lot of foreign adoption. It’s not so much that it’s a fashion, but that most children here need the help more then others.

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What personally bothers me is white middle aged mothers following in the footsteps of their favorite celebrities and getting little brown kids to parade around and talk about how they are so worldly and are “doing their part” instead of adopting because they want to love a child.

I’m sure there are some who do it with true intentions but there are definitely those rich women who are bored and adopt a kid because Angelina did and leave them with nannies and talk about how they adopted a kid from here or there. I know because there are parents at my school like that. It’s falling off now that it is no longer “popular” to adopt kids from foreign countries but there was a bumper crop the last few years of all these ethnic kids in my classroom and I wondered what was going on. As it turned out, every “ethnic” kid had a white mom who rarely came to parent-teacher meetings. Maybe it’s just my school; maybe it’s an isolated trend. I don’t know. But I do know that there were at least 50 cases like this at my school.

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CB… if you see me… point Daisy to me or vice versa… THANKS!!

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Enough of that Angie should adopt in America instead of other countries crap. Enough! I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again, some of you guys need to stop shoving your heads where the sun don’t shine and research subject matters before spewing such nonsense on pages. To say that orphans in poverty stricken countries are under privileged is an understatement. In fact, I guarantee that most orphanages in developing countries have the potential to make American orphanages smell like a bed of roses. Gee-effing-weez. Anybody that adopts in developing countries deserves a pat on the shoulder, not to be chastised. I wish more people would follow suit because the conditions many of these children live in leaves much to be desired.

Bitching about why Americans should consider adopting in America first and foremost before jetting off to less privy countries does nothing to help those underprivileged children. I don’t think there should be diplomacy when it comes to adopting because an orphan is an orphan. Everybody and anybody should be able to adopt in whichever country they choose without people screaming out “where is your sense of diplomacy?”

Also, I’m assuming, if one adopts a baby in, say, Cambodia, the baby will have typical Asian features (you know, dark eyes and hair, tanned-looking skin, etc) and if you adopt in Ethiopia, I’m assuming that you’ll most likely adopt a child with darker skin colour and so forth. Doesn’t anybody find it in the least bit deranged that colour is now an issue?

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