Angelina Jolie to adopt from Chad
by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Another one??? According to the New York Post, Angelina is about to adopt yet another child, this time from Chad. And this is just weeks after her latest adoption from Vietnam. I guess this is part of her “balancing out the races” philosophy:
“Angelina and Brad want to make sure Zahara doesn’t feel alienated as the only black face in their family,” a source told London’s News of the World. Jolie herself recently said, “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.”
Jolie reportedly has already picked out a 1-year-old girl from Oure Cassoni in Chad and has her lawyers working on the adoption paperwork. “She is hoping to have her daughter home by the summer,” a source told the British paper.
I guess she really will need that hands-free multiple child carrier (from Gallery of the Absurd, hat tip to Nina!):
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Brad wrote:
Hopefully she will actually follow the rules this time just like every other prospective adoptive parents has to. Most parents I know who have adopted over seas (Mostly girls from china) have had to wait for several months or years to get through the red-tape.
Posted 05 Apr 2007 at 9:17 am ¶
nsekuye wrote:
wow. thanks for ruining my day yet again angelina.
Posted 05 Apr 2007 at 9:21 am ¶
deb wrote:
Womb Raider.
Posted 05 Apr 2007 at 10:18 am ¶
Lloyd Webber wrote:
This is starting to get pretty ridiculous.
Posted 05 Apr 2007 at 11:12 am ¶
Sarah wrote:
Are you serious? This is just freaky. Didn’t her last kid come home weeks ago?
I love the concern for Zahara. It’s also kind of absurd that adopting her child from Vietnam is supposed to take her Cambodian son’s identity issues.
Posted 05 Apr 2007 at 1:08 pm ¶
Kenda wrote:
this is too much. i don’t want to call angelina dillusional, but…..
Posted 05 Apr 2007 at 1:21 pm ¶
berrybrowne wrote:
lol @deb. and to think for a while i was impressed by her good intentions. i’m so embarassed…
Posted 05 Apr 2007 at 1:51 pm ¶
deb wrote:
Is Angelina Jolie the new Josephine Baker! (Y’all do remember Ms. Baker, right?) She adopted a bunch of kids of different ethnicities. She called them her “Rainbow Tribe.”
Posted 05 Apr 2007 at 3:07 pm ¶
Koko wrote:
I see what she means…But it is still freaky…
Posted 05 Apr 2007 at 5:43 pm ¶
Ailurophile wrote:
I have to wonder if Angelina Jolie has some sort of compulsion to “collect” children to satisfy her own inner psychic needs.
Posted 05 Apr 2007 at 7:51 pm ¶
merq wrote:
Sarah
“I love the concern for Zahara. It’s also kind of absurd that adopting her child from Vietnam is supposed to take her Cambodian son’s identity issues.”
1. No more than a kid from Chad will for (Sudanese) Zahara.
2. I guess to her, they all look alike.
Posted 05 Apr 2007 at 10:43 pm ¶
merq wrote:
in other news,
TheThink is gone? NOOOOOO!
Posted 05 Apr 2007 at 11:00 pm ¶
Mrs. J wrote:
I’m home with my three kids all day and still am trying to figure out how to give each one of them enough quality time. I could only imagine what it would be like if I had to jet off and make blockbuster movies and go on humanitarian efforts, too. She has time to do all that and still sustain the romance with Brad? Who’s really raising these kidlets?
But the real question is (once #5 happens, if it does), will Brangelina conceive one more time, so that the races are truly “balanced”? For some reason, I can’t see her wanting to be pregnant ever again.
Yet for some reason, I really could see her pulling a Madonna and popping one out when she reaches middle age…
Posted 06 Apr 2007 at 12:24 am ¶
Stef wrote:
Whatever will she name her? Somthing horribly cool, for sure. And when is she gonna shoe some love to the Latino orphans? There’s a whole other part of the world that has not yet been touched by her beneficence. :/
Posted 06 Apr 2007 at 1:59 pm ¶
Colin wrote:
It’s almost funny that the source called the prospective adoptee “her child” already. (’her’ referring to Jolie, of course) Almost.
Posted 06 Apr 2007 at 8:27 pm ¶
s wrote:
Well, I just hope they all have a healthy life. Yeah, she may come off as a bit “scattered” in what the media reports as her motives, but these children would probably have lived a life just as hard or worse, where they came from.
And no, the two Asian children are NOT the same race, but it doesn’t mean they won’t ever have the same experiences and issues. I don’t recall racists stopping to ask people WHICH Asian country they are from before they discriminate against them. I totally understand her motive in trying to “match” her childrens ethnicities or skin color.
There has to be a point where we are happy that somebody is trying to do something positive for third-world children. There are faaaaaaar worse, criminal people out there who are adopting Asian and Indian children for sexual and other purposes.
Posted 07 Apr 2007 at 5:43 pm ¶
B.G. wrote:
um, S, Indian children are Asian. Not even touching that tired “mighty-whitey saving third world children” crap.
Posted 08 Apr 2007 at 2:06 am ¶
S wrote:
I know they are “Asian” by continent, I was talking about how they are stereotypically catergorized as an Asian race, such as those who look like Maddox. That IS how people start off discriminating againg others, by what they look like and what they identify them with.
And yes, I know about the white savior crap. They make a new movie or news story about it every quarter.
Posted 09 Apr 2007 at 7:26 am ¶
makethelogobigger wrote:
Jon Voight just called. He’s adopting a new daughter.
Posted 10 Apr 2007 at 10:56 am ¶
SolShine7 wrote:
I don’t get why people are giving her such a hard time with all her adoptions. Adoption is a great thing, there are countless millions of kids who need a good home. Angelina may have done some really weird things in her past but it looks like she’s trying to settle down. I think she’s sincere when it comes to her UN peace work. I wish her all the best in her career and family life!!
Posted 11 Apr 2007 at 9:43 pm ¶
Nemo wrote:
I think it’s great what Angelina is doing and I give her more props if she is adopting again. When I get older I want to have children of my own and adopt. So, if anyone thinks that Angelina is doing something wrong they really need to stop talking, because those kids might of never been adopted. Much love to AngelinaXBrad and their children.
Posted 15 Apr 2007 at 10:20 am ¶
Anonymous wrote:
Don’t get me wrong, I sincerely love what Angelina and Brad do for the good of children.
But, does addiction mean anything to you?
Apparently, she’s trying for all ten at the same time. More power to her, but I hope this does not come back to bite her. These children need individual attention – are they getting any? What is happening to Shiloh in all this? Now, there will be another 1 year old. I never thought I’d say this, but Angelina is starting to seem a little out there. – again.
Posted 25 Apr 2007 at 3:15 pm ¶
Genuinestayathomemom wrote:
i have friends who’ve adopted two children – one from the US (it’s not THAT hard). they aren’t rich, but the mom has quit her nursing job to be a FULL TIME MOTHER. Angelina pays four nannies and a day care to raise her children. how can they raise children with any stability just because they are billionaires, but are NEVER home, except for the PR photos of the kids on the beach. Who is watching them when mommy and daddy are making movies back to back and always on the red carpet and at premieres? I find it hard to spend quality time with all my three children, and i am a full-time mom – I guess if i had maids and nannies and day care, i could have a nice walk on the beach every other week. I agree with the other posters – Just donate a bunch of money to assure these children and the ones here domestically are raised in proper homes, with moms and dads, not nannies and private schools and the horrible shock of living in a household of insanely famous people and being constantly fearful of your life or your parents life. Isn’t there some other way they could have helped out? Adoption is just not for everyone. Money doesn’t make you a good parent. UGH!!!
Posted 29 May 2007 at 1:24 am ¶
b.g. wrote:
I think a lot of child experts would disagree with what Angelina is doing, adopting all these young children all in short time spans.
What about their individual attention, their needs.
I have raised two children, and it has been hard at times. How does she plan to truly bond with each of them?
Brad Pitt doesn’t seem to be able to tell her no in anything, and he seems to be a enabler.
All the publicity they both get is not what a a lot of people respect. How are these children going to be 10 to 15 years from now? I can maybe see a lot of negative publicity with a lot of problems, especially wth a mom who seems to be very controlling.
Maybe someone with the power over these adoptions will say to her no more. You have already done enough–no more kids……
Posted 11 Mar 2008 at 8:17 pm ¶