Monday, October 23, 2006
Babies are the new black
After reading this link online, I was pretty shocked. I don't know if it is totally true, but let's just assume it is because it makes for a funny and depressing story at the same time. This trend of babies as a statement of compassion worries me. I feel Angelina Jolie genuinely cares for her children--both adopted and birthed--and that she wanted to give them better lives. At the same time, my deep and abiding mistrust of all things Madonna tells me that she realized how much goodwill Angelina was getting and decided "I can be a trendy Mom too!" The way Madonna's adoption was publicized made me feel like she called a couple of newspapers from her diamond cell phone and told them she was doing this, which cheapens the whole thing a bit. The reasons to adopt a child is if he/she is unsafe or not being provided with food, water, and shelter, not to exercise your own vanity and reveal the magnificent depths of the ocean that is your narcissism. The money Madonna is lavishly and pointlessly spending on this baby could provide the village he hails from with food and shelter for thousands. An electric car? For a baby? What the hell is going on here?
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i agree completely nitin. whether or not madonna's motives for adopting the child were genuine or not, which they may well could have been, it seems ludicrous that she's spending funds she could have donated to the child's village on trinkets like cashmere blankets. given that she's adopted the child too, there seems little likelihood that she would be completely unaware of his biological family's destitution as well, as she should have researched the infant's background before taking him in.
First of all, have you ever adopted a child in need? I highly doubt it, you should at least be grateful that there are some people out there as compassionate and caring as Madonna that they would take in a child and perhaps save a life. How dare you judge her, I think that it is you that should be judged lets take a look at your life and criticize that shall we?
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