Celebrities who adopt are always a hot topic on the Exploring Adoption blog. This year, the media inundated us with stories about Mary-Louise Parker adopting from Africa, Cheryl Crow adopting domestically, and, of course, Angelina Jolie’s latest adoption, this time from Vietnam.
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People magazine reports that actress Mary-Louise Parker has adopted a baby girl from Africa.
The single mom, 43, also has a 3-year-old son with actor Billy Crudup.
Brad Pitt, who co-stars with Parker in the new movie, "The Assassination of Jesse James by The Coward Robert Ford," praised her decision to adopt.
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Rumors are flying yet again that Angelina Jolie is considering adopting for the fourth time (she and Brad Pitt also have one biological daughter). Jolie, who is in Prague filming her latest movie, Wanted, met a child in a Catholic orphanage who she thought would fit perfectly with their other children.
Last month we heard that Angelina might be adopting from Chad, so who knows whether this current rumor will pan out.
Source: ContactMusic.com
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Grammy-winning recording star Sheryl Crow, 45, adopted a two-week-old baby boy last week. Her new son, adopted from the United States, is named Wyatt (after her dad) Steven (after her little brother and “Scooter,” the nickname of her longtime manager and friend, Steven Weintraub).
Source: Tonight
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Can it be true? The gossip rags speculate that Angelina and Brad are planning to adopt yet again, this time from the African nation of Chad.
A source close to the family (don’t you just hate those unidentified sources?) told London’s News of the World, “Angelina and Brad want to make sure Zahara doesn’t feel alienated as the only black face in their family.”
Jolie recently remarked, “Should you balance the races, so there’s another African person in the house for Zahara, after another Asian person in the house for Mad? We think so.”
Rumor has it that Jolie’s next child will be a 1-year-old girl from Oure Cassoni in Chad, and that she hopes to bring her daughter home by this summer.
I guess we’ll just have to wait and see if the rumor mill is on target. If so, you read it first here!
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Because Angelina Jolie’s latest adoption has received so much media attention, people naturally wonder whether the adoption was fast-tracked.
Nope, says Angelina and her adoption agency.
Heidi Gonzalez, coordinator of the Vietnam program at Adoptions From the Heart, a private, non-profit, non-sectarian agency located in Wynnewood, PA,
says that Jolie proceeded through the adoption process in the same time-frame as other applicants.
The Vietnam government, however, decided to fast-track the paperwork when Jolie was in Vietnam because the press was so aggressive that they feared for the child’s safety. “They just felt that the faster she got out of there, the better for everyone,” said Gonzalez in an interview with KYW newsradio.
Source:
KYW Newsradio, “Angelina Jolie Used Local Adoption Agency,” by Suzanne Monaghan
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Angelina Jolie officially adopted her new son, 3-year-old Pax Thien Jolie, yesterday in Vietnam.
The boy's name means “Peaceful Sky.” Pax is Latin for peaceful and Thien means sky in Vietnamese.
Angelina will remain in Vietnam for a week until Pax’s American passport is processed.
Vietnamese law prohibits unmarried couples from adopting, so Angelina is adopting Pax. It’s speculated that Brad Pitt will later adopt the boy. Pax joins brother Maddox (5, adopted from Cambodia), sister Zahara (2, adopted from Ethiopia), and sister Shiloh, born to Angelina and Brad in May 2006.
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The rumor is officially official: Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are adopting a boy from the Tam Binh orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
They are adding to their family of three children:
Angelina adopted son Maddox from Cambodia and daughter Zahara from Ethiopia. The couple also has a birth daughter, Shiloh, born last May.
Source: Arizona Central
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With all the furor lately about celebrities who are adopting, the media has resorted to reporting the names of celebrities who are NOT adopting.
Jennifer Lopez told Ellen DeGeneres she's ready to start a family, but she's not really considering adoption at this point. Jennifer is not opposed to the idea, but then, she's not excited about it, either.
I feel so much better about life now that I'm aware of that little tidbit. Don't you?
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Here’s the latest celebrity adoption gossip news:
Jennifer Aniston has decided to adopt a baby. Rather than adopting internationally, as several celebs have done of late, Jennifer has decided to adopt an American child. Her lawyers are reportedly approaching adoption agencies in Los Angeles on her behalf.
Everyone has something to say about Madonna’s adoption of a boy from Malawi, Africa.
Liam Neeson says he has “issues with taking a child away from its parents if they were alive, its culture, its country.”
Angelina Jolie has suggested that Madonna took a risk in adopting from a country in which there is no legal framework for adoption.
Oprah Winfrey spoke out in Madonna’s defense, saying that her adoption was an “amazing” act. On the British current affairs show NewsNight, Oprah said, “I applaud Madonna. I think it’s an amazing thing that she did, and it makes me sick that people criticize her, because there are millions of children in this world who will die because no one came to save them.”
Madonna herself is befuddled by all the criticism surrounding her adoption, saying she was warned it might be difficult but hadn’t expected so much criticism. She told David Letterman she was “saving a life” by adopting David.
Back to Oprah:
Oprah insists that she is not the least bit interested in adopting. Earlier this month, she opened a school for disadvantaged girls in South Africa. The $40 million facility, funded entirely by Oprah’s foundation, will provide free education to 152 girls from across South Africa. The school aims to prepare them to become leaders not only in politics, but also in science, the arts, medicine, and law.
Sources:
Stuff.co.nz
iAfrica.com
BBC News
Contact Music
USA Today
Hollywood.com
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