Most of these actors who have their own kids like Madonna and Angelina want to adopt or have adopted for more attention from the public, they are addicted to attention and when it fails they start a new story of adoption to be the spot of light again, Are they nuts to choose one kid out of millions who need adoption and who suffer as if discriminating against the others?
2006-10-26 16:01:13 · 13 answers · asked by fuschiafish 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Celebrities
I think it is publicity. Actors and Actresses do not have to go across the globe to adopt children. I am sure there is an adoption agency in Hollywood with children who need a family. I think these actors/actresses going all the way out to Africa when they can really go to their local ACS to adopt children is a problem. It is bad enough what is going on out there. I am all with adopting children, but don't turn those children into marketing and media tools. True, there are many children who need parents, but why do the actors/actresses neglect these agencies that are in nearby.
Moreover, I think these celebrities are ruining these kids because Hollywook life is much different for a child than the "normal life." Hollywook couples don't stay together. They switch partners like a pair of draws. They have no clean morals. Just ruining those kids. Not all Hollywood couples are that loose in conduct, as some have remained married. But you know the couples I am talking about...
2006-10-26 16:18:37 · answer #1 · answered by the_answer 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
These actors are hungry for more publicity or else they will die as actors , they keep reminding us of themselves, they love the camera although they pretend to hate it by hitting the paparazzis : that is why they go adopt kids and make a huge campaign about it, Madonna was well aware that she would make the news about her adoption from Africa , and Angelina holding her adopted kids publicly is well aware that she would be filmed showing the world she is good to adopted kids : but I bet they let the nanny take care of them at home because actresses dont care for kids they are self centered..They want to impress us that they adopted from a poor country to look as if they care for the poor... . If they were really good people they would act upon changing the lives of those poor kids living everywhere on the planet by raising funds for them because they have the money and the means to change a lot of things in the world and by choosing only one child to adopt they are being more selfish than ever..
2006-10-27 20:23:30 · answer #2 · answered by kitty 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Let's take this one step further? WHY always adopting kids from poor foreign countries? Why cannot they adopt a child from the USA? Unfortunately, foreign adoptions generate more press, and the rule in entertainment is; good news is good news, bad news is good news. As long as you are on the news!!
Look at Michael Landon. He got cancer. So he goes to the hospital for treatment with an army of camera people and news people. Again, news is news. Good or bad.
PS: Here is how adoption works. I went thru this with our son.
USA adoptions; state agencies. For poor people. That would be ME! You have to attend classes on how to raise a child, and there is some paperwork that is a bit of a hassle. They come to your home and see what it looks like. You do most of the work on this. Then you take the child to a judge, and the child is yours.
PRIVATE AGENCIES. Everything changes. They want a LOT of money; $30,000 and higher. So you better be well-off.
FOREIGN ADOPTIONS. Now we get crazy! Again, bring a LOT of money. They expect you to go to another country, sit in a hotel room for 3 months while they do the adoption papers, etc. What if you have a job and cannot go to another country for 3 months?
Well, then you do not qualify. HOW actresses adopt in less than a week is amazing. Even MONEY will not get you thru red tape THAT FAST. They had to be doing this BEHIND THE SCENES for months before they show up to adopt.
2006-10-26 16:08:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Are you for real?
For a start Angelina adopted long before she had a kid of her own. Secondly adoption is not a new trend in celebrities, Michell Pfifer(spelling?) adopted as a single mother way back in the mid 90's.
Celebrities adopt for the same reasons anyone does, the need to love and be loved, the desire to help a child in need. They can afford it so why bag them for doing a good deed? If I could afford to adopt I would even though I have two kids of my own. Do I want attention? No. I'd want that warm fuzzie feeling you get when you do something good for someone else.
And as for discriminating against the ones not chosen, do you expect them to adopt them all? Why don't you help out instead and adopt one yourself?
2006-10-26 16:29:27 · answer #4 · answered by Curious1 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
As someone who was adopted, I am very grateful that my adoptive parents picked me out of the hundreds they had to chose from and took me out of the awful life I would have had. (And yes, I do know it was an awful life because I know who my natural family is.) You can't presume that the celebrities are only doing it for publicity. Perhaps the woman has been told not to have any more pregnancies, but she needs to be a mother again.
2006-10-26 16:04:17 · answer #5 · answered by Arletta S 3 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Any kid they adopted would gain them publicity. Why is it right to adopt one kid over another? Is it so wrong to adopt a child from a 3rd world country with less opportunities then practically everybody? You obviously don't have kids. Like stated in Maddonna's interview it is a lifelong commitment to raising a child. There is alot of love and caring that goes into it. I commend these women. Publicity stunt? Not. Do you think they are aching to have the press more in there face? The press already surround them every step they take. Give your head a shake.
2006-10-26 16:11:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
i can see where you are coming from, but i must disagree with you. who really does care? at least they are doing something good for someone who needs & deserves it. let us just wait until these kids are old enough to speak out in an interview with Barbara Walters Jr. in 20 years. then we can judge them. anyhow, they are people too. normal people adopt children, so why can't celebrities. i think it is the fact that perhaps they are realizing that they can do that too. after all, they do have hired help to care for the children when they are busy.
by the way, when you adopt a child from a foreign country, you are basically buying the child from the country because you have to pay fees of tens of thousands of dollars. tell me that is necessary? obviously not, so you are buying the child. but is it worth it to the parent? Yes!!!
2006-10-26 16:09:57 · answer #7 · answered by christy 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Why are you complaining? They can't adopt them all, so they adopt the ones they can care for. The kids get a loving home, the parents get a child, it's a win-win situation ...... except for people like you who can't seem to be satisfied with other people's lives no matter what happens.
2006-10-26 16:05:04 · answer #8 · answered by My Evil Twin 7 · 2⤊ 4⤋
It is like if you were to travel and go to a place that is poorer than the United States. If you give one group of natives/villagers gifts, what do the rest of the people think?
Same concept. Nobody is better than anybody else, we all poop, we all die, we are all human.
2006-10-26 16:04:21 · answer #9 · answered by AmplePressure 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure they could do something other than adopting kids to get attention. I think what they are doing is great.
2006-10-26 16:05:06 · answer #10 · answered by Jen G 6 · 3⤊ 3⤋