“US citizens should be adopting US citizens first, we need to focus on the future of this country! Trying to get the children out of the system and keep them from going back in should be our sole focus when those that want to adopt do.

Also, it seems like you are trying to make it sound like I am a biggot or whatever, I am not. My grandparents raised many different ethnicities, gender, ect. of foster kids. Fact of the matter is they could only adopt two of them. I have been around the foster system all my life (not me personally I have two parents) and I have seen how life can truly be for these kids.

Darn straight we should be helping OUR kids first!”

1. No such thing as “our” kids. children are children, wherever they are from, they deserve love, from whoever, wherever, whenever.

2. You may have known children in “the system”, but you have no idea what it can be like for any child in foster care in the US, or in foreign countries.

3. It is DIFFICULT to adopt a child within the US. My parents, who are perfectly wonderful people, went through multiple adoption lists, trying to be considered, multiple home visits by social workers trying to figure out if you’re good enough. And this took 10 years before being able to adopt me. 10 years.

The ethnicities, countries, languages do not matter. Family is family, it overcomes all of these barriers and is fused in love.

I’ve always loved what Meg Ryan says about her family. See the article below.
http://celebrity-babies.com/2007/04/16/in_progress_the/

She was malnourished, dehydrated, and suffering from E. Coli posioning.

Lioness- I don’t know about Madonna, but Angelina actually HAS done some of those things. For example, she and Brad, through their Jolie-Pitt project, recently opened an HIV/AIDS clinic in Ethiophia, Zahara’s birth country (the clinic is also named after Zee, just as the Maddox Jolie-Pitt Project in Camobodia is named after him). She has also given money to many different humantarian causes (most of them releated to children).

In addition, Brad has his Make It Right project in New Orleans.

CrystalDex, are you aware that not everyone is ABLE to adopt a child from US foster care? Have YOU ever adopted from US foster care?

Also, Minka there were actually people waiting in line. I recall a poster on here, talking about how they were waiting for a child in Malawi! I think that other people wanting to adopt are just made to wait that 18months, that is their law.

Nobody was ‘waiting in line’ to adopt from Malawi, unfortunately. From the documents of the adoption, it clearly states that this adoption was the very first of the year. With nearly 2 million orphans waiting for a home, how is that even possible? Instead of attacking Madonna, why don’t people point their fingers at the Malawian government. They are the ones in charge of approving or rejecting adoptions. When a law no longer helps the society (ex: blacks & whites were forbidden to marry or eat or sit in the same areas, women could not vote, blacks could not vote, etc), they must be changed or adjusted to better serve the needs of the population. Malawi needs to step up and address the needs of all those children because they certainly are not doing so at this point.

Mercy wearing that bracelet is no different than me putting a cross on my child. Religion is highly personal. While I completely understand the belief that you wait until a child is older to introduce them to religion, that is not the belief of all. Just like you have made the personal choice to wait, Madonna has made the choice to have her children involved. If she were hurting her child, I could understand the outcry, but the complaining for no reason other than she doesn’t share your beliefs is utterly ridiculous.

Adoption is a personal issue that each family should decide on whether it’s the right thing for them. If it is, then the country, gender, ethnicity, and age are choices for them to make, and not for you or me to dictate. The whole mentality of “let’s just focus on our own kind” or “let’s help ourselves first” are not always the best way to approach things and not everyone agrees with that way of functioning or thinking.

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US citizens should be adopting US citizens first, we need to focus on the future of this country! Trying to get the children out of the system and keep them from going back in should be our sole focus when those that want to adopt do.

Also, it seems like you are trying to make it sound like I am a biggot or whatever, I am not. My grandparents raised many different ethnicities, gender, ect. of foster kids. Fact of the matter is they could only adopt two of them. I have been around the foster system all my life (not me personally I have two parents) and I have seen how life can truly be for these kids.

Darn straight we should be helping OUR kids first!