Principesa, thank you for your comments about how people in the West don’t really know how blessed they are. I have lived in Africa (malawi to be precise) all my life and when I see some people complain over trivial things, i am like ‘why don’t they come to Africa and find something to complain about’. people here are very fortunate if they have three meals a day. but despite all this poverty, they wake up with a smile on their face, go to Church every Sunday and give thanks to God for the life they have. you will hardly ever hear them complain, hardly ever.

Don’t believe everything you read. I doubt she would put her daughter at risk of catching the AIDS virus. And an 11 year old working with newborn babies? Please. Maybe she played with them for about 10 minutes and then left with her mom. Several weeks working in the orphanages for 8 hours a day? Don’t think we are idiots. Remember this was the same woman who used her daughter’s desire to audition for a Harry Potter movie as her own publicity. She can never have enough.
By the way Sarah, I don’t care if that photo came with the article, it is a wrong type of picture to have on this website. If you mean to say that you got it for free along with the article and want to use it, just say so. But there are people who won’t take Madonna’s nonsense and will stop coming to your blog.
I remember having seeing photos of Madonna and her daughter in Africa about half a year ago? You could’ve just used that. That would have been way more appropriate. I almost skipped this article because of the picture.
I don’t, but most people look at the pictures when deciding which article to read, not the title, did you know that?
Oh and one more thing! Good job on finally organizing the layout here. I rarely visited anymore because it was starting to feel like a job to read anything. It could still use work, but you’re on the right track! I look forward to seeing the new improvements the next time I visit

Nicola, I didn’t say ALL. To ‘some people’, it doesn’t feel good when you’re born out of a trend or fashion. I don’t have to see you on the road to know that their are ‘some’ offspring of mixed relationships who are negatively affected by being born because of a trend. Just like a child of two parents of the same race are affected when they learn their parents were not in love but rather a fling or a mistake. My point is children born in poor countries to parents who couldn’t afford or care for them who put them up for adoption atleast have a feeling of being BLESSED to be with their adoptive parents,even if they are of another race. Do you think the daughter of Melanie Brown(aka scary spice) and Eddie Murphy will feel like a blessing to her mother or even father? Imagine being raised in a household were your father has left and all around you are white. Or think about being in a all black or asian home and your white father or parent is not around. Being adopted to someone of another race you have a blessed feeling because your adoptive white parent in the case of madonna and angelina jolie actually adopted you to give you a better life.

Bearcakes I think you have avery negative view of things. I have never met anyone that had a baby to follow a trend. I also don’t think it is a trend to adopt an African baby or have a mixed child. If it was a trend there would be tons of people in Hollywood adopting African babies, I can only think of Madonna, Angelina en ML Parker.
I think these people just want to have a child and when adopting chose the continent where children have it the hardest. That’a great reason to pick a certain place!

Bearcakes-

Give me a break! I live in the northern UK and whilst yes some people here do get involved in mixed race relationships to have a mixed race child, the majority do not. I’m in a mixed raced relationship and am part of a multi cultural family (I have English, Canadian, Philippino, South African and American relatives). To be quite frank the thought that if you saw me and my boyfriend walking down the street together and assumed we were doing it just to join a so called trend is very offensive.

Well done to Lourdes on her work in Africa, Madonna is right, all too often we underestimate kids and what they’re capable of.

I believe Absolutely Fabulous had that joke…a mixed race baby is the latest fashion accessory…this was probably about 6 years ago…and like all jokes they have some basis in the truth…I know what you’re saying Bearcakes. I live in NYC where diversity is all around and you would not believe the horrid things people say. I actually heard one woman talking about picking up her Chinese baby girl as if it where a pit-stop because she would be in China for a meeting. Then starting making fun of the way Chinese names sound. I’m like, WTF? I kinda see why China and other countries are getting more strict about adoptions as some people’s true motives are not always altruistic.

I’m a huge Madonna fan and I’m sure she’s giving David a terrific life and he looks like he has a great big sister in Lourdes.

Bearcakes – I completely agree with you. Don’t apologize for your views. From your life and experience you are entitled to them.

I admire Madonna’s commitment to Malawi and exposing her children to how other people live. I think America would be a completely different place if our children had to think about things besides having the latest ipod, cell phone, or video game.

I am sorry to sound that way but the fact is some people are in relationship with people of another race to have a ”brown baby”. Some are in it for love I don’t doubt that. It sounds stupid but visit the UK other parts of europe and see the way some of the people there operate. Atleast when you are adopted out of poverty you are a given a better live than before. Its worst having the feeling when your father is of another race and leaves your mother and you see that you were probably created because of some fetish or trend. Aleast Madonna and others who adopt couldn’t afford to take care of them and someone wealthy,who happen to be of another race is taking care of them. I’m sure Madonna and Angelina are making sure their children have apart of their culture. When some birth parents don’t even care to give that to their kids.

And for what it’s worth, I kind of dig the photo of Madonna! Mama’s still got it!!!

Janey I totally agree. And Madonna is quite right about underestimating children. I am not advocating child labor or burdening older siblings with parental responsibilities, but yeah, many of us would be surprised if we gave our kids the chance. As a parent I am dismayed to see that I myself have an impulse to shelter my children when in fact I need to give them more space, and more credit, as my own parents afforded me (albeit often out of necessity). Bearcakes, I would think twice before accusing people of marrying or adopting out of their race as “experimenting”, particularly since it sounds as if you yourself are of mixed race. My husband and I are not the same race, and neither he nor my children are experiments. They are the real deal.