Madonna Steals Two More African Children From Malawi

[Fred Hampton]

What is it with celebrities and African babies?.....According to reports, Madonna is the latest celebrity to adopt a child from the developing world. If the story is true, the 48-year-old singer has adopted a one-year-old boy from Malawi after a visit to the country. I'm afraid only two words spring to mind: vanity project. Madge wants a baby, so she goes to Africa and "saves" one - that way she gets her baby and scores points for doing a good deed.

....I am sick of the idea that adoption by white westerners is the best thing for an African child.  The impression given is that by adopting an African child Madonna is somehow "rescuing" him from a life of misery. The implication being that anything is better than growing up in Africa, even having Madonna as a mother.

But no amount of luxury can make up for having lost my family.

It's arrogant to assume the only way to deal with poverty in the developing world is for westerners to adopt a few "lucky" children.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/oct/06/comment.familyandrelationships

In March 2011 the Ethiopian government announced it would cut down intercountry adoption by as much as 90 percent, increasing scrutiny of orphanages amid allegations of fraud and document falsification in what had become a lucrative “baby business.”

....Ethiopian children who went from adoptive homes to living on the streets in the Northwest.

“The problem is always ongoing,” he said. “Adopted children who come here from Ethiopia are kicked out of homes."

http://www.seattleglobalist.com/2015/12/21/ethiopia-international-adoption-regulation-washington-hana-williams/44659

...international adoption scandals, adoption corruption, child "harvesting", baby-stealing, legal violations in international adoption, or adoption agency corruption (see child laundering; child trafficking In the United States)......international adoptions are a big business, where a large number of private international adoption agencies are paid on average $30,000 a time to find a child for hopeful parents."....https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_adoption_scandals