I just want to share this beautiful comment Mary-Louise Parker (who has a daughter adopted from Ethiopia) made recently, which I think may also be at least part of Angie and Brad’s reasoning for adopting kids from countries other than the U.S.:

“I hear the comment, “Why not adopt from this country?” There’s a lot of need in this country. And I think if you want to adopt anywhere it’s a beautiful thing, but it’s not a contest. So you shouldn’t say “Why don’t you adopt this child over that child.” A child is a child and every child deserves to be loved.

If was a contest, however, a Third World country is different from, say, Baltimore. It’s different when there are dead bodies by the side of the road and parents having to amputate their children’s limbs so children can beg to get money, and mothers are having to sell their daughters into sex slavery. It’s a different thing, so I don’t think you should make it a contest when it comes to children, and who’s deserving of love and who’s deserving of a family. Every child is deserving of that.”

Her comments show how much the right love and the right man has helped redefine her. They make such a great couple. They are soulmates. I love the way they encompass each other almost like a cocoon of love secure in their love and with their children. May God continue to bless my darling Brangelinas.

Well ,I guess to me they’re are just having all these kids to bring attention to themselves. I’m all about saving the world, but please there so many kids right here in the USA that need help.If they did’nt have all that help and money they sure would’nt have all those kids.Give me a break!

Well ,I guess to me they’re are just having all these kids to bring attention to themselves. I’m all about saving the world, but please there so many kids right here in the USA that need help.If they did’nt have all that help and money they sure would’nt have all those kids.Give me a break!

She’s a home wrecker! what goes around will come around! Brad left Jen for Ang and he will leave her for someone else!

She is inspirational, wonderful and fascinating. The very best always to her and her family!

I believe there should be laws on how many children can be adopted in a short period of time. I think there is such a thing as children suffering emotionally, because two parents are working and there is not enough time to emotionally care for 6 kids had in less then 7 years. I am not a fan of Angelina, and I see her as a phony.

Go NLT! I don’t know whether or not this is the reason Angie and Brad don’t adopt from the U.S., but….Earlier this year, In Touch Weekly ran a story about two people claiming to be Zee Zee’s biological mother and grandmother wanting her back.

Obviously that story wasn’t true, but my point is, if they adopted from the U.S., that would probably happen ten-fold. Dozens of people would probably, at the tabs’ urging, come out of the woodwork claiming to be releated to the child and wanting that child back.

That said, I think one of their main reasons for not adopting from the U.S. is because most of the children in the countries they do adopt from (so far Cambodia, Ethiopia, and Vietnam) are far worse off than most kids in the U.S.

Look at Zahara, for example. She almost certainly would have died had Angie not adopted her. A lot of kids from the third-world countries Brad and Angie adopt from suffer from one or more of the following:

-A lack of clean water to drink.

-Little or no food to eat and/or having to go long periods of time between meals.

-Nutrional defencies due to little or no food (such as rickets, wich Zee Zee is rumored to have had).

-Inadequate or no shelter.

-Inadequate or no healthcare.

-Exposure to several potentially deadly dieases (such as Salmonella, the illness that nearly killed little Zee Zee) due to poor hygien, lack of vaccines, lack of clean drinking water, lack of healthcare, and improperly cooked and handled food.

-Their lives constantly being in danger due to war and other conflict (look at the poor children in Darfur, for example).

One other possible reason they don’t adopt from the U.S….The U.S. adoption system is not exactly all that user-friendly these days!

linda:

Do you really think they owe you an answer? Really?

Have you adopted from the U.S.?

How come Brad and Angie don’t adopt kids from the United States? Why is it always from another country?There are hundreds and hundreds of children here in the United States that need a good home.I would like to know their answer to that.