Please Adopt Me Madonna

Raybon Kan of the Sunday Star Times weighed in on Madonna’s move to adopt a orphaned boy from Malawi, sticking up for the Material Girl in the face of a global outcry. “What would you rather have in your face: the paparazzi in your pushchair, or flies you haven’t the energy to swat away,” he asked. “And even if an adopted child is nothing but a status symbol, it’s a better scenario for all concerned than celebrities with more fleets of Humvees. It’s never the beggars who are choosers. Do we ever hear the kids who’ve been adopted by celebrities, wishing they’d been left at the orphanage? Does Nicole Richie wish Lionel Richie hadn’t adopted her? If Soon-Yi hadn’t been adopted by Mia Farrow, she would never have met her future husband.”