Who benefits from celebrity adoptions? – CNN.com
Who benefits from celebrity adoptions? – CNN.com:
After a while you get a bit sick of all these celebrity focused adoption stories. Quotes like “The money she will have spent on the adoption and will spend on the child could have gone to help many more children in Malawi. But then she wouldn’t have a cute black child to show off.” show a real misunderstanding of adoption.
Guess what, I didn’t adopt to save a child from poverty. I adopted to fill a need to have a child in my family to love and raise. Why did I adopt from the Philippines? Many reasons including their matching program, a family connection with the country, the fact that there are very few kids available for adoption in Australia. The thought of financial poverty in the Philippines never entered my thoughts. Since going there I know that while money is tight that culture, love, morality, christianity and lots of other wonderful things exist there in abundance.
