Your reactions to the trend of foreign child adoption among celebrities – Part 2

When thinking about why a celebrity would adopt anywhere but America, I’d strictly say because of their image. What celebrity wouldn’t want to be seen in third world countries interacting with the people and visiting it’s local orphanages? It makes them look like a saint. Are they truly a saint? Hell no! I say this because, even though adoption is a very giving, unselfish thing to do in the case of a normal parent, it is utterly an accessory of power for a celebrity “parent”.

Why do I think this? Look at it this way, to anybody else, having a child is a wonderful blessing, and shouldn’t be taken advantage of, whilst those of us who can’t have children desperately want one, so we adopt, that child is our world. When a celebrity does it, they could have children, but they choose to adopt to give a child a good home. No, they don’t want to help someone around here, they want one from some struggling country like Cambodia or Africa. It’s selfish because oftentimes it helps build their image. Some celebrities even cut down white children because they’re NOT foreign! That’s racist in a whole new instance. What child would want to have to worry about their own mother being racist to them? A perfect example is Angelina Jolie. Many tabloids and sources say that she looks down on her one biological daughter, Shiloh, for being white. She made the baby, she better love it! Babies are babies, black, white, purple, pink, and they should be loved as such.

It almost seems like a publicity stunt to have foreign children. The paparazzi can’t wait to find them on an outing together so they can snap away. Children aren’t accessories. It’s ridiculous that they don’t help out children in the United States who need homes. It’s ridiculous and pathetic that they can’t even help out children who really need help in their own back yard! Oh, lets go to Sudan and get a baby, the ones here are no good. The latest designer baby is an Asian one! What? Are you kidding me? That’s what it looks like to me when I see celebrities with foreign adopted babies.

Madonna does a good job of keeping her African-adopted son out of the spotlight, which I appreciate on her part. Madge shows us how to treat a child right. She has two kids of her own and even though it’s great that she adopted, I do think It would’ve been proper to adopt a kid from the UK, but this is good too. Angelina does it in a way that is snobby. To only value the foreign children is like taking the fake over the designer! It’s all the rage but it’s so wrong! Some celebrities do it right, also like Meg Ryan, by not showing them off like a new handbag.

They could step foot in the nastiest slums in the world but when it comes to the slums here, they won’t budge. “It’s the ghetto, it’s nasty, the losers live there”. When it comes to other countries, the slums are gold to them! Doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. Excuse me while I ramble, but if you can do that, you most certainly can go to an American ghetto.

Sure, they make those kid’s lives wonderful, shower with them with gifts, clothes, toys, but think about those kids who sit around waiting for someone great to adopt them, but get snubbed thanks to some power-hungry celebrity? The children who really deserve the love and affection are those who’ve been waiting for it here. Why not reach out? It’s terrible to take all of those chances away from kids here to live in a privileged household where you get everything you could ever want, and the chances are steadily getting lower and lower. I wish they’d take it to heart when they adopted.