I’m chuckling to myself as for a moment i mistook Edie for Felicity Huffman. I was confused as to why there was no mention of her husband… and then i was really confused with the name choice – Macy Macy! haha

Congrats to Edie and her family!

Congrats to her!

Congratulations to the family!
Cute name!

LILKUNTA Adoption whether domestic or int’l is the parents choice.

I do see however why AJolie,Madonna,Meg Ryan,MaryL Parker chosce int’l. An orphan kid, foster care kid etc in so much better off in the US than in the developing countries. Though not the best environments, group homes/foster homes give US kids clothes, a bed to sleep, food, health insurace etc.

In developing countries kids dont have this.

At the end of the day, the most important thing is that kids are in homes with families. Who can not like that?

paula- ITA with everything you said! I know this probably isn’t the case, but honestly, sometimes it seems like people think that children from other countries are less deserving of being adopted by a loving family thant children from the U.S. (or whatever your home country happens to be) are!

I mean, for example, if Angelina had adopted a child from the U.S. instead of Zahara, Zahara almost certainly would have died in the orphanage (when Angie adopted her, she was malnourished, dehydrated, and I think had Salmonella posioning as well). Zahara was every bit as deserving of a loving family as an American child is!

My point is, wherever a child is adopted from, that is one less child in an orphange or foster care!

A baby from anywhere is so exciting! Personally, doesn’t matter to me what country you adopt from so long as it is one less child in an orphanage/foster home. That said, i do disagree with the poster who said they hope she finds a good man and settles down. There is an awfully big assumption there that she is either looking for a man, not happy with her current situation or adopted because she feared she wouldn’t meet someone who could go through the child process with her. Not everybody wants to be married

Congratulations to Edie, Anderson and new baby Macy!

Lauren, obviously, I’m not the only one who is tired of comments like yours regarding domestic versus international adoption, as you can clearly see from other posts. I’ll leave it at that.

“If anyone was trying to turn a positive into negative, it started with your comment, Lauren, not with mine.”

So my post, which praised Edie for adopting and adoption in general, was what started the negativity on this thread as opposed to yours, which did nothing to add anything positive to the discussion and instead chose to complain about someone else’s praise. Riiight…

Any objective person would not have a problem with what I wrote. You are the one who chose to jump on what I said and create negativity within the thread, and blaming me for your actions isn’t going to happen. It’s obvious that you’re oversensitive to the topic at large; that isn’t anyone’s problem but your own. So don’t force your hang-ups on other people trying to have a nice discussion.

I’ve never watched the sopranos, and pretty much only know this actress from seeing her on here. I never realized Anderson was adopted! I learned it from reading these comments. I always thought he looked just like his mother. I hope it’s a good thing. I’m adopted, and I resented it when people thought I looked like my non-bio parents, because those /weren’t/ my genes, and I felt forced into a different identity when people said that. But we have a poorly relationship, which I imagine is part of it.

Forgot to ad: Lauren, I’m not sure Edie or any of the other celebs adoption domestically adopted babies from the foster-system. More likely they adopted via the private adoption system.