Mdterp, thanks for understanding my point and taking my apology. I really wish for you to get the little boy or girl you are hoping for. I am from Spain, and here we have a lot of families (with infertility issues mostly) that have adopted chinese girls (because of families not being able to have more than one child, and as you know, because of social and historic related issues they preffer to have boys). What I want to say, is that I have known a lot of families who have had the blessing to be able to take one of these precious girls home with them. I admire so much people like you, who figth so many years, and spend so many time and money to be able to bring a child home with them.

Again, I really hope you get to have a little boy or girl with you, as soon as it can be, and as you said, that little angel will come to your life in the right time and moment.

I’m realy sorry again if I offended you in any way, and thanks for understanding my comment wasn’t mean to hurt anyone.

Sarah:

If you were a UN Ambassador, you WOULD call a press conference when you visit a country, or at least have a camera crew. It’s a requirement to document the visit. The UN also issues press releases to the media and their UNHCR website.

We all have to be more informed….

So sabrinasmom you’re saying Angelina Jolie should not comment on David’s adoption because you believe she and Brad had an affair? Way to stick on topic and live in 2005. Good luck with that.

Angelina has the right like all of us to speak her mind.

Angelina has enough drama in her own life she can talk about. I have never cared either way about her, but I cringe now that she is with Brad. She has nothing but her track record to go by. I don’t believe her when she says she and Brad started a relationship after his separation. (I and the rest of the world can add and subtract – months of a pregnancy) I agree with it’s a free world, but be honest. She broke up yet another relationship (well she involved herself with someone who was involved with someone else). I think she AND Brad are trying to spin everything surrounding them so they don’t look like the bad guys.

Regarding the whole Madonna adoption issue, I have said that I do not agree with it in philosophy for several reasons. Carolyn’s comment seems benign until you realize that ANYONE (pedophile, child rapists) can “fall in love” with a child, and want to take them away and “give them a life” as Madonna has stated, but that does not mean that they have the right to just take the child away from their homeland! Madonna should have to follow the same laws as everyone else who desires a child, and the nation of Malawi has stated that, absent any laws governing the process, they should monitor Madonna’s childrearing techniques before final considerations are made. That does not mean that Madonna is an unfit mother, it just means that they care about their people, and want to do everything they can to protect their most vulnerable resource – their children. What’s so wrong with that? If anyone is being irrational, it’s Madonna.

Also, if Madonna’s marriage is on the rocks, as the media claims, what justification does she have to take away a child that still has a natural parent that just recently remarried?? I know I am ranting here, but let’s start to call a spade a spade (no pun intended).

If someone asks me about something, I’d give an honest answer too. Madonna did adopt from a country where there isn’t a legal system of adoption; Angie has every right to comment on that too. She didn’t call Madonna names; she expressed her position on the subject in the dignified manner she always does.

Heavenly – that doesn’t mean Angelina did anything illegal or holds any responsibility for the actions of the adoption agency. She was just one of hundreds of parents who used that adoption agency. This doesn’t mean she was on the wrong side of the law. The agency was.

I agree with what Angelina said, however as she is a celebrity in the same situation as Madge she should have kept out of it. A celebrity commenting on another is always going to be a ‘big thing’ especially when there is already a media circus.

What I had trouble with was the quote “I prefer staying on the right side of the law. I would never bring back a child from a country where adoption is illegal.” The ‘adoption’ agency that Angelina adopted Maddox from has been shut down due to illegal practices. Has Angelina given a thought to that?

Thank you for the apology mars. I truly appreciate it. I understand what you are saying about what Hollywood is doing. I know that Malawi bent the rules for Madonna because of how much money she gave them and because of who she is. “Normal” people like me and others spend years and a lot of money trying to bring home one of these children. It just doesn’t seem right sometimes how they can get what they want immediately and not have to go through what the rest of us have to go through. I do know however that the child who is meant to be ours will come to us when it is time and that is how I get through this. Thanks again for the apology! I understand your point.

The Elle interview came about the same way the Gala interview came about. A bunch of reporters in a room asking Angelina Jolie questions during promotion for The Good Shepherd. The questions are asked by this reporter and that reporter and then the quotes are spun into a story for a particular magazine. Some of the reporters do not speak English as a primary language so words/quotes are lost in translation. It just doesn’t happen to Angelina Jolie but to all celebrities. The problem arises when people would rather bash a celebrity than to do any real research as to what context the quote was said. Angelina Jolie seems to be a great mother who loves all her children equally but that doesn’t make for an interesting story and the gullible masses eat the sensational stuff up. Some of those gullible masses are in this thread. JMHO

Also Madonna made the adoption harder than it should have been by choosing a country with laws basically making it difficult for international adoptions to take place. However, at the end of the day David is better off with the Richies than some orphanage. Isn’t this the essence of what Angelina Jolie has said on Larry King Live? I agree with her.