Today's Daily Fluff about Madonna reminded me that Madonna's much heralded adoption of a 3-year-old girl from Malawi ended up being denied by the Malawi courts. Apparently, the girl's extended family wants to care for her and has been fighting the adoption despite the pressure put on them to give in and the promises that the girl would go off and become a doctor or lawyer, then return to Malawi to take care of them all.
Yeah, I'm sure.
Why the hell does Madonna keep trying to adopt Malawi children who have living parents/relatives to care for them? It's not as though there aren't plenty of orphans around the world who don't. The whole thing is incredibly weird and creepy, and sinks my opinion of Madonna even farther (if such a thing is possible). I don't have any issue at all with adoption in general. Unlike other people, I don't think Angelina Jolie is weird and crazy--well, at least not for reasons related to her many adopted children. Madonna, however, gives the impression that every time she feels lonely or needs an image boost, she jets off to an impoverished region of Africa to pick out a new baby.
So yes, I'm glad that she got turned down. I'm going to make the assumption that Madonna doesn't get a lot of people saying, "no" to her. (This explains the horrible leotard phase she went through.) Moreover, there probably aren't many things that happen that she can't buy her way out of. This is one situation where I don't even feel bad about my Madonna schadenfreude.
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