GOOD INTENTIONS
"Taz" at SepiaMutiny has a post on Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt:
"...Angelina Jolie is adopting an Indian baby to add to her growing international brood, according to US reports.
Sources say the big-hearted actress and partner Brad Pitt have already applied to adopt a tot from an Indian orphanage.
An insider said: "They hope to be able to bring the child home by Christmas.[...] She has said: "I want to create a rainbow family. That's children of different religions and cultures from different countries." [link]
And the disturbing cherry on top...
The source told US magazine Globe: "Whichever they end up with, they'd like to name the child India to honour its homeland." The pair are rumoured to have visited the Priva Darshini orphanage in the last month. [link]
Seriously?!?! It's not like they went around and named the other kids 'Cambodia' and 'Ethiopia.' How come they get cool names like Maddox, Shiloh and Zahara, and you want to name the desi kid 'India?' Like she isn't going to be teased enough..."
This obviously follows in the wake of the controversy over Madonna's adoption of a child from Malawi.
I'm just waiting for some paparazzi stories on a major celebrity from Bollywood and/or Hong Kong/China adopting orphans from the U.S. and Europe.
It's only a matter of time.
After all, Globalization is not just about economic trade the world over, as I've noted before.
Despite all the potential issues, these adoptions do strike me as giving children in need a turbo-charged, lottery win of a shot at a better life.
So net, net, a good thing.
The parents in question though do need to constantly focus on how to give their adopted children as much of a normal life under such "abnormal" conditions.
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