Celebrities Adopting Children: Are they Doing Good?

LA’s most glamorous adoptive mother, Angelina Jolie, is frequently pictured with her Cambodian son Maddox, now five, and her Ethiopian daughter Zahara, one.

by Housewife4Palestine

I have always been one of those people in the background, that looks at the news and once in awhile turns on the television to be bombarded with these celebrities that seem to have a endless stream of adopted children from a country not their own.

I have often wondered if they actually are helping and underprivileged child or making themselves look good with said child hanging off their hip.

I really tend to wonder if these children grow up in a healthy happy home or just another celebrity helping make themselves look good with a child from a deprived poverty stricken country?

Something else I tend to notice, that these children are from countries that appear to have the easiest adoptions; you certainly do not hear of one of these people adopting from Palestine for example or some other Middle East country that may have tougher adoption laws; like America.

Something that has always been fearful to me, that these children from different cultures growing up in a foreign country and their real welfare being accounted for the horrors of Joan Crawford comes to mind, as “Mommy Dearest.”

I came across the following article and it really gives a person something to think about on the real welfare of these children:

Are they adopting the right attitude?