Heard on the news that Angelina ( not a favourite in our household ! ) was on TV being interviewed just a few weeks after giving birth to her and Brad's child talking about how she would like to adopt another child! Here is a dreadful article that appeared in the LA Times - I only copied the first bit about the pros and cons of adopting from China - but it carries on to talk about all the other options that she could look at .............It makes you want to scream On the upside heard today on the message board that referrals are comoing through for all those people whose papers went to CHina at the end of June last year...it is creeping slowly towards August....lets hope that the CCAA ( China Center for Adoption Affairs ) speeds up a little after they move office ! Here's to efficiency and productivity...How to Shop for Kids the Brangelina WayAngelina's "looking at different countries" to find another child toadopt. We weigh some likely possibilities.By Leslie Gornstein, Special to The Times
Less than a month after giving birth to her first biologicaldaughter, Angelina Jolie said Tuesday that she plans to adoptanother child. The Oscar-winning actress already has two adoptedtykes â€" a boy, Maddox Chivan, from Cambodia, and a girl, ZaharaMarley, from Ethiopia. Jolie also has her hands full with new babyShiloh Nouvel. (We hear Shiloh's father is an actor.)"We're looking at different countries," Jolie told CNN's AndersonCooper. "And it's gonna be the balance of what would be the best forMad and for Z right now. Another boy, another girl, which country,which race would fit best with the kids."
Now that Cambodia and Ethiopia are, you know, so yesterday, wheremight the next Jolie-Pitt adoptee be? Some likely possibilities:
CHINAThis country is like a machine " an adorable, adoptable-children machine. More than 7,900 rugrats adopted last year came from China.If Jolie seeks her next child in this country, she'll most likelyget a girl; only 5% of available children are boys.Estimated total cost: $20,000 to $25,000
Upside: Babies! Squadrons and squadrons of little babies!Downside: Only a limited number of singles may adopt. (Theexception: special-needs kids.) And when Jolie isn't growing herfamily, she's busy denying marriage rumors. Also, Jolie would haveto go through an agency approved by the Chinese; no privateadoptions permitted. That could mean less discretion than thepublicity-picky star might like.
Likelihood: Low. Jolie already has two girls. Add a third, and thatmakes for a perilously outnumbered Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt. Joliesays she wants "balance," which probably means a boy, and China isn't the most logical place to find one.
RUSSIAThis country is the second biggest supplier of adoptable moppets.More than 4,600 kids came from Russia last year.Estimated total cost: $30,000 to $40,000Upside: Ample pickin's. Ratio of boys to girls is 1 to 1. And ifJolie's plans for "balance" call for an older child, this is also agood country; in 2004, almost half of the children looking forparents were ages 1 to 4.Downside: No private adoptions here either. And maybe some badblood. In 2004, British and Russian papers buzzed that Jolie waspreparing to adopt a Muscovite orphan boy named Gleb. If there wassuch a failed plan, then Jolie's relationship with the Russians maybe as frosty as a St. Petersburg ice sculpture.Likelihood: High. Unless the Gleb tale is true. Then low.
