Friday, April 03, 2009

International adoption in the headlines...hoooo boy!

OK. For better or for worse, international adoption has been all over the news the last couple of days. Most of my earth-dwelling readers will be familiar with a pop artist from Michigan of Italian-American heritage known as Madonna and her recently-failed attempt to adopt her second Malawian child. *Sigh* This unfortunate episode has put her, Africa, orphans and--by proxy--US in the news.

If you'd like a little perspective on this, read this interview from CNN.com with Melissa Fay Greene, mother of 5 adopted children and author of There Is No Me Without You: One Woman’s Odyssey to Save Her Country’s Children. (Great book, by the way.)

1 comment:

  1. And I agree with everything she said! That is, with the exception of "I admire Madonna..."

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