Adopting Madonna
Posted: Mon 23 October, 2006 Filed under: News, Thoughts, Weirdness 2 Comments »I must be missing something relevant in the farce about Madonna adopting a boy from Malawi.
Personally I don’t give a monkey’s toss what Madonna does or doesn’t do, and I think a lot of the hype around this story is just that – hype.
But I do have to wonder (in the little brain-time I’ve given this) one thing. If the boy has a father, what the blue blazing fiddly fuck has he doing in an orphanage?
Or do I have the wrong meaning of “orphan” stored in my head?
According to the BBC his father and extended family are just too poor to feed him, hence the reluctant handing over to the orphanage.
Yeah, it’s the third world definition of orphanage. Most orphaned kids in Africa have parents who just cannot feed or care for them. As for the ‘hype’ I think it’s justified in this case, as, basically, the only reason she was able to remove a child from the country was because of who she is, regardless of her ability to be a good parent. One rule for her… or perhaps one [large amount of cash] for her..