what law did madonna break regarding the adoption of david banda, the malawi boy?

Here are some things she says about the adoption:

Madonna has been thinking about adopting for about 2 ½ years and had started the process long ago with a social worker.

She never thought about adopting from Los Angeles, as some reports have stated.

She never spoke with or got advice from Brad or Angelina about adopting.

She said that what she has now is an interim adoption and that she was allowed to take David home for the 18 months instead of living in Africa, which is customary. A social worker will check-in with the family to see if David is being cared for properly. At the end of 18 months the adoption will be final.

She does plan on taking David back to Africa with her when she does her travels to check on her "Raising Malawi" project. She is planning one or two trips a year.

Part of the adoption rules for the country state that verbal and written permission from an extended member of the child's family must be obtained before an adoption could take place.

She did meet David's father and he did tell her that he was grateful that she was giving his son a chance at life and an education.

She feels that David's father is now saying he didn't understand the meaning of adoption due to the press hounding him.

Madonna's quote on the adoption:

"My goal, and this is part of the bigger picture, is that I will give David an education and a chance for a better life. And what better way for him to go back and help his own people and help the Malawians and be a voice for his country than to be able to first have a life and be educated."

We do not live in David's country. The laws in his country are not the same as our laws throughout the world.

Their law states that they can not have a foreign adoption. The government is attempting to make an exception for the rich Madonna who simply wants the latest fade, a child from a poor country. There is nothing wrong with wanting to help these people. Think of how much she will spend on this child. Now, you have to ask, how better could this money be spent in the very orphanage that David lives in to improve the lives of all the children there? To take David from his current situation, place him in a rich household and then think he would return to his country to live and help his people when he gets older is just crazy!

We do not live the life these people do. An orphanage is not the best place for a child to grow up but his family still can see him. Send David from his land and his family will likely only see him in the papers, if they can afford it.

I think the father, who is illiterate, was deceived by the translator as to what he was signing. I believe that his father should still have some say in what happens with David.

It is the law of that land to not have foreign adoptions, that should stand.

She didn't break any laws. As of now she just as some kind of temporary guardianship. It will take waivers of rules in Malawi that essentially ban, or make impossibly difficult, inter-country adoption.

As of not, David is a tourist in England, on an extended "sleepover".

If the Malawian authorities ignore their own laws it is they who will have "broken" them. Under UK law, the UK will not recognize foreign adoption by a UK habitual resident without lengthy investigation by the local Council and approval by UK and Malawian authorities.

Madonna has taken legal advice and may move her base to the USA where inter-country adoption is less regulated, and where babies are regularly bought and sold, especially in those states where abortion is illegal or unavailable. Once the adoption in finalized in the USA she could move back to Britain. Also, David would become a US citizen.

No laws per say, but how many children without even a single parent in this country, black or white, are up for adoption. She did it for the publicity little else. Some nanny will raise the kid, pretty well I am sure, but it is still for the publicity madonna will get for her heroic save!

No law was broken. No tribal law was broken

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Quit listening to the stupid media !!!!!

They only want their ratings.

Leave Madonna and her adoption be done with !

As far as I understand its a misunderstanding, the father of the boy supposedly didn't understand that he was actually giving the boy up for adoption.

She broke the law of the land

she broke the law of land you cannot sell kids period you can give them up but not sell them

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