Madonna wanted to adopt out of a orphanage why is that so bad?

I mean why is everyone down on her don't they understand that the child is in a orphanage. If her grandmother or father really wanted her she would be with them. The age of death over there is in the early 50's. Why would anyone want to stand in the way of this little girl getting a better life. The grandmother at one point said it was stealing but that's not what it's called It's called adoption out of foster care right?

2009-04-15T13:07:38Z

Good points. I didn't know half of this now I understand why everyone is upset. Then if this is true and she goes a head and takes the child it is kidnapping.

Shelly172009-04-15T12:49:37Z

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Sorry, but your perception of orphanages is very different from the reality in 3rd world nations. With a high infant mortality rate, parents and grandparents often are forced to put children *temporarily* in orphanages to ensure they have food and medical care that otherwise they would not have, during ages 0 to 5 when mortality rates are highest. THEN the child is taken home again once they are past this vulnerable phase.

Temporary poverty can also lead to a temporary orphanage stay.

Do you want your child to die, or put them into an orphanage until you can get the necessary resources to keep them alive and fed at home???

It is NOT an "adoption center" or "foster care" as we have it here, as parental rights are not legally and completely severed as in Western forms of adoption. Very few orphans in Africa (or Haiti for that matter, as that's also a popular place to buy orphans from) are actually orphans. Very few have no family.

Temporary poverty (and poverty is a human rights abuse -- check article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Right) is no reason to take a child away from a loving parent or grandparent. That is exploitation.

Penny P2009-04-15T22:59:35Z

I have learned that Malawi does not adopt children to non-citizens, or non married people. She already bent the rules once when she adopted David, being that she was not a Malawi citizen. Now she is STILL not a citizen, and now she is a single parent. Why should she get to override those laws, but everyone else has to follow them? Because she has money? If she was so concerned, she would give money to support the kids in their own country. If she really wants to be a mom to another child, she should adopt from her own country, or a country that allows international adoption to non married women, and follow the same laws and rules as everyone else.

?2016-10-15T14:47:01Z

properly, in international places like uk and the States, the waiting checklist for adopting youthful babies are phenomonally long. i comprehend there are older babies searching for families yet people do no longer desire babies with bags that could desire to finally end up confusing.. so they pass to a minimum of one/3 international international places... in my view i don't have a subject with it... i do no longer see why everybody might have a subject with somebody of wealth, adopting a toddler that could probable ideally be suggested in poverty... As for assisting the country itself, there are loads of charities that do this, and we could face it, how lots of those charities supply the money they convey mutually over to deprave government officers as a substitute of giving it directly to the inhabitants... I join Amnesty international and that i comprehend each little thing I supplies them is going immediately on help... Others like the pink pass and the french scientific one, (won't be able to think of of the call) do an undesirable lot interior the third international...

CP2009-04-15T13:00:38Z

The problem most people have with Madonna's adoption of Mercy is not that she was trying to adopt a child from an orphanage, but that she was trying to use her money and celebrity to circumvent the system.
Malawi has very strict adoption rules -- no one should get a free pass.

Mercy's father had thought she was dead but has since indicated that he wants to parent her and he has that right.

Serenity712009-04-15T15:02:03Z

This is Africa, not a western country. Different laws for starters and that isn't a fostering situaiton, how do you know the little girl doesn't have more family members? Madonna wanted all the rules bent her way... She doesn't qualify to adopt a child from there. That really should have been the end of it, and its wrong to bribe a country with charity donations just to expect them to make exceptions for her to do as she pleases.

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