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Angelina Jolie's African adoption
Jan 21, 2008, 11:30 GMT
Angelina Jolie (L) and Brad Pitt (R) arrive for the Critics\' Choice Awards in Los Angeles, California USA 07 January 2008. The Broadcast Film Critics\' Association created the Critics\' Choice Awards to recognize excellence in cinematic achievement. EPA/PAUL BUCK
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are to adopt another girl from Africa.
The couple - whose two-year-old adopted daughter Zahara is from Ethiopia - are hoping to visit African orphanages over the Easter holidays in March to find another daughter.
Angelina's brother James Haven revealed: "They are creating one big family and will keep adopting as long as they are able to."
The couple - who have three adopted children, Cambodian boy Maddox, six, Vietnam-born Pax, four, Zahara and 20-month-old biological daughter Shiloh - have vowed to reduce their hectic work schedules so they can accommodate another child.
James is quoted by Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper: "Angie and Brad talk about how much they have been taught by their kids. In many respects Angie saved Zahara's life and there are so many more children whose lives she could save and she talks about that constantly."
Angelina, 32, has previously spoken of her desire to have a "balanced" multi-cultural family.
She said last year: "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. "Shiloh has Brad and me to look at."
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Angelina has been not only not in the tabloids recently but it is like they are afraid to write about her.
She is trying to clean up her trashy image and most likely got james to brag about what a saviour she is.
THing is, Zahara would have been adopted by most likely someone next in the long line of people adopting infants from Ethopia. But Jolie swooped in with her private plane, definitely did NOT have an in home inspection.
Then goes to France with an apparently sick kid, for a whole week. After the kid get's thinner she THEN takes her to a hospital in New York
Look at the baby pics of Z before she was adopted. She was plump and healthy.
GAWD. How much fat did Brad have injected into his face. He looks scary.
Only initial tests for HIV can be done on a baby of 6 months. That initial test was done before the adoption. The baby cannot be presumed to be HIV negative UNTIL all tests are completed. Those tests were not done until after Zahara was in the US for many months. So Jolie did NOT know, nor did anyone know, if Zahara was HIV positive or negative when she adopted her.
It is also NOT true that you cannot bring a baby into the US for adoption if they are HIV positive or if the tests are not completed. The US Government allows exceptions. You must apply for the exception. Families who wish to do so must present evidence to the US govt that they have the financial means to take care of that child through the illness and assure the US govt that the child (if HIV positive) will not become a financial burden on the US govt.
I guess you cant expect anything intelligent or truthful to come from a poster who labels herself 'holie lied.' Look in the mirror, sweetheart.
ShellyJan 21st, 2008 - 17:10:09
THing is, Zahara would have been adopted by most likely someone next in the long line of people adopting infants from Ethopia. But Jolie swooped in with her private plane, definitely did NOT have an in home inspection.
Then goes to France with an apparently sick kid, for a whole week. After the kid get's thinner she THEN takes her to a hospital in New York
Look at the baby pics of Z before she was adopted. She was plump and healthy.
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Thing is, Miss Thing, you are just making things up. There are NO pictures of that baby before she was adopted.
There were at the time and remain untold thousands of babies in Ethiopia in orphanages. The number of abandoned babies in Ethiopia has been a horror story for a long time now. There aren't enough willing adoptive parents on the face of the earth to adopt them. There was no other parent waiting for Zahara. When the orphanage learned that Zahara might possibly be HIV positive, it offered Jolie the option of backing out of her adoption and she declined, choosing to go forward with Zahara's adoption despite the uncertainty of her HIV status. Jolie went to Ethiopia for the final visit to pick up Zahara and returned immediately to NYC. She did not go to France. Zahara was in a NYC hospital within days of her departure from Ethiopia. Why do you make up such nonsense? It's easy enough to google that information with dates provided.
The adoption application packet includes about 30 - 40 items the adoptive parent(s) are required to complete BEFORE they receive a child. That packet includes a home study with an IFS safety audit by a social worker and a Fire Inspection approval by the local fire department. What is this uninformed insistence that Jolie does not comply with adoption procedures? If she did not comply, then she would not have been allowed to adopt all these children and bring them into the US. The State Department and Homeland Security which oversee foreign adoptions and admissions of these adopted children into the US do not play games.
Give it up and find some other way to waste your lives.
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Holie LIEDJan 21st, 2008 - 17:00:27
So umm. She wants a MATCH for Zahara. Kinda prejudice to define your kid by thier skin color isn't it.
And she didn't save Z's life. It is well documented that another person wanted to adopt her but Z had already been spoken for only the day before. Infants are adopted fast and even hard to get. I adopted from India and it took 1 year before an infant was available because they are adopted so quickly. And india has one of the highest number of infants available for adoption.
Also, when Angelina said she didn't know if Z had AIDS she was LYING LYING LYING.
ALL children must go under AIDS tests before they can even be put up for adoption. You MUST have this paper work before entering the country with the child.
If Z wasn't tested, the adoption agency would be investigated and closed.
She defines her kids by thier past and only seems capable of loving them if there is some hero drama for her in it.
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