Madonna Plans on Adopting Another Child.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29991695/ Pop star Madonna is yet again seeking to adopt a child from Malawi, this time a girl. I feel that this is part of an alarming trend of putting material extravagance above the good of the family unit. The material girl, Madonna, seems to think that she is better suited to have children than the natural born family. In my personal opinion, this is no better than those who prey upon orangutans, in order to sell there young as pets. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/JAK99239.htm It seems to me that foreign adoptions are desired for the exotic nature of it. People want to possess a child who is from some remote country, because it seems fashionably chic. Well I say that there are plenty of actual orphans, in domestic lands, whom need to be placed with suitable homes. There are children of all ethnicities too. So why should people be scouring the globe in search of black children, when there are hundreds of identical children in our own country desparately in need of a family? Of course, one should not adopt based upon race. Children are indivisual human beings, not novelty items, and/or fashion accessories. And this topic hits home for me personaly. You see, my foster brother/cousin was given up to be adopted, by my one half-uncle and his wife, to there friends. We were not informed about this arrangement. We did not find out about what was going on until we received a call asking for us to take him off of there hands, because he was becoming too much for them to handle. Joey, my birth cousin, has Reactive Attachment Disorder. This condition is common amongst children who grew up in inadequate social conditions. So after finding that he was more than they bargained for, they eventually decided to do the right thing, and return him to his rightful family. In fact there lawyer said that if he had known that Joey had extended family still living, he wouldn't have even processed the adoption. I for one am pleased that our family has now been reunited, in spite of the difficulties. But one thing that we have in this country, which they probally don't have much if any of in Malawi, is a social safety net. Families here in America are able to receive food stamps, and/or other public assistance. These social welfare programs help poor families to stay together, instead of being broken up, and sold off. Now of course as a libertarian, albeit one of the Left, I would perfer if we all were able to depend upon mutual aid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_aid_(politics), rather than having to rely on the welfare state http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_state. Eventhough, as a matter of fact, churches have also helped our family before, when we were in need. Especially the Roman Catholic church. Catholics in particular, value families, and try to do whatever possible to keep families together, and help those in need. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Charities As I understand it though, they also receive grants from the government, so they're not entirely a private charity.