Adoption addiction
Not that we really care, but--yeah, we do.
So, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are adopting another child, this time a 3-year-old Vietnamese boy. (FOX News! but I first read about it in In Touch, natch.) That brings them up to a total of 4, including 3 adopted children and one biological child. All within 5 years.*
Do you ever wonder if maybe Angelina is addicted to adopting? I'm sure you get a rush from it--the excitement of bringing a new addition into the family; the warm feelings of giving an abandoned kid a home; and so forth. And there's all that pain in her own family life. Maybe it helps her cope.
I have a few friends who have adopted kids from overseas. It ain't easy, and it ain't cheap, and it is also a pretty big time investment. There are few people who would have the time or money to adopt three children this way, let alone raise them all. So I suppose that if this is an addiction, it is one that few people will ever have the means to develop.
*I really have to point out here that while I support adoption to control population growth and conserve natural resources, you have to imagine that kids being raised in a multi-million-dollar LA mansion are hardly living lightly on the land.
So, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are adopting another child, this time a 3-year-old Vietnamese boy. (FOX News! but I first read about it in In Touch, natch.) That brings them up to a total of 4, including 3 adopted children and one biological child. All within 5 years.*
Do you ever wonder if maybe Angelina is addicted to adopting? I'm sure you get a rush from it--the excitement of bringing a new addition into the family; the warm feelings of giving an abandoned kid a home; and so forth. And there's all that pain in her own family life. Maybe it helps her cope.
I have a few friends who have adopted kids from overseas. It ain't easy, and it ain't cheap, and it is also a pretty big time investment. There are few people who would have the time or money to adopt three children this way, let alone raise them all. So I suppose that if this is an addiction, it is one that few people will ever have the means to develop.
*I really have to point out here that while I support adoption to control population growth and conserve natural resources, you have to imagine that kids being raised in a multi-million-dollar LA mansion are hardly living lightly on the land.
posted by Waage on Friday, March 16, 2007
1 Comments:
I must admit that I have followed this story as well. I have mixed feelings about it. My husband and I have one biological child and he is now 'fixed'. I love this man. Anyway, I would consider adopting from oversees, but I researched into a Chinese child, and they are 25K. They are, actually, considered the 'designer label' of adoptable kids. Then the tsnami hit Indonesia, and there were so many Americans, including myself, who wanted to adopt an orphan from that tragedy, that there was a special show about it on Talk of the Nation . But you would have had to spend an incredible amount of time LIVING there and many more insurmountable hurdles to pass. And, then there's the whole ethical question of why don't we Americans want to adopt our own. Hmmm....
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