Madonna's adoption - its all down to money isn't it?

Question

Everyone on here seems to think that its wonderful that Madonna's African baby will "want for nothing" with her.

I assume that means designer clothes, public schools, ponies etc.

This kid HAS a family in Africa. Surely Madonna could afford to sponsor them so that they can give him a good life and allow him to stay in his own country and culutre with his own family.

Yeah he won't get designer trainers and playstations and stuff but who the HELL needs all that stupid pointless crap anyway?

Madonna's money could provide safe clean water, healthcare and education for
his village. This is what all children need - love, food, healthcare, safe place to live, clean water, education. She could give him all this (for the price of a new Louis Vitton handbag) and allow him to stay with his own family.

All the greedy designer crap her money can buy means nothing. It never made anyone happy.

Why are people so shallow that they assume money makes you a better parent?

And why does everyone assume that if you criticise someone who's very rich you must be "jealous"? Not all of us let our whole lives revolve around money you know.

No I'm not jealous just sad that people seem to think this way. .

Answer 1

$$$...

Answer 2

XATCLY..i agree with u 100% i was thinking the same thing..so now that "brangelina" r adopting these foriegn kids is that the "in" thing to do?? give me a break she has so much money she could have went down there and built the little boys family a house and sponsored them 4 awhile..or y not adopt the whole family bring them out here get the father a job set them up in a modest apartmnt/condo healthcare and help them that way... but 2 just snatch him from his family..that little boy was not an orphan cause his father was on tv saying madonna stole his kid..then madonna got on oprah to try to justify her actions PLEASE!!!so he's gonna grow up in England (cause thats where she lives) with nannies and boarding schools and all that materialistic crap when what he needs is all the things u said..2 thumbs down to madonna.

Answer 3

He was in an orphanage not with his father and he has no mother.
yes Madonna could provide the basics of life to his entire village. But she has chosen to adopt and that is her choice.
This is not news this is tabloid gossip.
Many other people adopt and its not news so why is this.
And what Madonna will provide goes far beyond material possessions.
For this little boy it provides an opportunity that he would otherwise never have.
You are right he does have a family and they put him in an orphanage because they could not provide him with the basics for life.
Your mistake with what you have said is that you are bagging out someone who has helped someone else and seem to be complaining that its not what you would do. That does not make it wrong just different. Applaud the fact that she has done this when she in fact did not have to do anything at all. There are many with money who do no good with it at all.

Answer 4

Money does not make for better parenting. But it does provide more opportunities in life, better schools, music lessons, dance lessons, etc. But really what Madonna did was to rescue a little boy that was sick in an orphanage and is giving him a better life. Why is it being overdramatized and belittled by people that do not understand? Are you saying that if you could you would not help a child from a life of misery and impending death?

Yes this child has a family that he has not seen for the majority of his life. He was left in an orphanage and was not expected to recover from pnemonia. Pnemonia, can you believe it? Medicine, clean water and rest and that was more than could be given to this and other children in Malawi.

Who loses in this situation and why are you so affected by it?

Answer 5

I don't know that it's that simple. The boy had been away from his family for over a year, since he was just a few days old. She is doing some relief work there, so what is the harm? She is going to give him a lot more than designer clothes. This should be seen as a good thing. I think at least.

Answer 6

Do i think of she might lie mostly, specific, she has and can it quite is portion of her historic previous all persons have historic previous although. it quite is the character of superstar. Do i think of she might lie empirically now given her non secular state, No i do no longer. Do i think of she might lie with regard to the custody, and so on., No i do no longer. Do I believe orchidmg's summation of the scene, specific I do. there's a loss of communique that occured it rather is all. And yeah if I have been interior the daddy's footwear i might have in all likelihood walked away that way too and can be scared and puzzled by potential of the twisted spinning of the media, they're so off base it quite is not humorous.

Answer 7

He may have a family in Africa but they sure didnt want to know until all the media was focused on them. The kid was in an orphanage wasnt he? Therefore no family to care.

Yeah that little kid will get luxury that most of us can only imagine but he will also get fed and watered and live beyond the age of 5.

How can that be wrong? Should we ignore all those poor kids coz the media says so? I dont think so.

Answer 8

There is something you are overlooking here. Madonna has donated millions of dollars to build orphanages in Africa to give thousands of children a start in life. Just a chance to live.
She has brought clean water and sanitation and blankets and medicine to africa. Especially Malawai in a country where the average man lives to be 32 and women the ripe old age of 34.
Aids has ravaged the land and their are millions of orphans.
He had Pneumonia and was going to die. They orphanage set him aside to die. She got him out of there and to a hospital where he could get oxygen and penecilin.
The 13 months he was there his father never visited him.
He went through alone malaria, TB and several cases of Pneumonia. He may have survived this case to but I doubt it.
With out her generous contributions to these orphanages many children would die. Please do not discourage those from helping.
By making her the villian.

Answer 9

I am more bored of madonna and her new baby than I am of what Pete Docherty has been up to on his weekends.

We don't know these people and the stuff on the news and in the papers is all pure speculation and gossip. My point is that any opinion on the matter is therefore ungrounded and of no consequence, so who really cares?

Answer 10

I reckon it's more about ego. Madonna's! She's so used to getting what she wants regardless of the cost. Her body is reaching the point where it's saying it's getting old, so she doing the next best thing and buying a baby. She's nearly 50 for God's sake, and barely at home for Lourdes and Rocco. Little David is just a toy to fill a gap, that's all. Money is meaningless to people with wealth like her.

Answer 11

U must not have watched the Opra show the other day. It explanained everything. Madonna went thru the adoption prossess just like everybody else has too. Does it bother u that much, that her new little one is going to have everything he ever wanted. His father said that, if were to stay in that country he would have died, don't u think he is better off now? Sounds to me like u might b a little bit jealous. R u?