Media Coverage of Adoption -- It's Not Just About Madonna
Is the Washington Post suggesting that finding two young girls dead in a freezer is somehow more heinous becase the mother had adopted them?
Is the Washington Post suggesting that finding two young girls dead in a freezer is somehow more heinous becase the mother had adopted them?
AP | RAPHAEL TENTHANI | Posted 05.04.2009 | Entertainment
LILONGWE, Malawi — Wealthy, famous, fabulous at 50 _ but not a mother of four. Pop star extraordinaire Madonna lost a bid Friday to adopt a seco...
usmagazine.com | Posted 05.03.2009 | Entertainment
Madonna is celebrating the adoption of three-year-old Mercy James -- expected to be approved by a judge tomorrow morning -- by throwing a party in Mal...
Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 05.03.2009 | Entertainment
Madonna is also exhibiting the desire for love that can never be met. In her career, and apparent need for attention and love, she is the poster child for Motherless Daughters.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.03.2009 | Entertainment
The unstated reason that certain people are upset about Madonna's adoption is the archaic notion that a white person is culturally clueless when it comes to raising a black child.
usmagazine.com | Posted 05.02.2009 | Entertainment
Madonna's lawyer Alan Chinula tells Usmagazine.com he is confident that the judge will allow the singer, 50, to adopt 4-year-old girl Chifundo "Mercy"...
AP | CELEAN JACOBSON | Posted 05.02.2009 | World
LILONGWE, Malawi — Madonna's efforts to adopt two youngsters from Malawi have put her in the media spotlight. But she isn't alone: a growing num...
Bonnie Fuller | Posted 05.01.2009 | Entertainment
So what that she's rich, famous, and still sexy? No one else is knocking down doors to adopt a needy little girl named Mercy. Don't demonize Madonna for wanting to make her, her daughter.
AP | NEKESA MUMBI MOODY and RAPHAEL TENTHANI | Posted 05.01.2009 | Entertainment
MCHINJI, Malawi — Madonna said Tuesday that she was following standard procedures in her adoption of a Malawian girl, her first response to accu...
Ian Gurvitz | Posted 05.01.2009 | Comedy
Apparently, she's not satisfied with just the one. Maybe it's a matched set kind of thing. Or maybe she's trying to paper the house for her next movie premiere.
foxnews.com | Posted 05.01.2009 | Entertainment
Before Madonna "adopts" another child from Malawi, maybe someone should ask her where the money went from her big star studded 2008 fundraiser for tha...
Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 04.30.2009 | Entertainment
Madonna arrived in Malawi Sunday morning on her Gulfstream V in her bid to adopt a toddler girl named Mercy. After arriving she toured an impoveris...
AP | CELEAN JACOBSON | Posted 04.30.2009 | Entertainment
LILONGWE, Malawi — Madonna and her three children toured a day care center built by her charity Monday as critics slammed the star's attempt to ...
AP | CELEAN JACOBSON | Posted 04.29.2009 | Entertainment
CHINKHOTA, Malawi — Madonna is expected to appear in court in Malawi's capital Monday to sign papers for the reported adoption of a second child...
AP | RAPHAEL TENTHANI | Posted 04.28.2009 | Entertainment
LILONGWE, Malawi — Madonna is expected to arrive in Malawi Sunday, airport officials said, as the star's plans to adopt a girl as her second chi...
people.com | Michael Y. Park | Posted 04.27.2009 | Entertainment
A Malawian court will investigate Madonna's application to adopt a 14-month-old baby girl named Mercy James from the same orphanage where she got Davi...
AP | RAPHAEL TENTHANI | Posted 04.26.2009 | Entertainment
BLANTYRE, Malawi — Madonna is planning to adopt a second child from Malawi, officials said Thursday, but questions have already been raised over...
nydailynews.com | By Laura Schreffler | Posted 04.24.2009 | Entertainment
Malawi's adoption officials say Madge's sizzling fling with 22-year-old Brazilian hunk Jesus Luz - and her rumored hookup with Yankee slugger Alex Rod...
Vanessa Richmond | Posted 11.23.2008 | Living
If I was a custody judge, charged with picking the best home for a baby, I'd like to say I'd pick the loving one. I had a ridiculously loving, happy childhood, and I feel the effects of that every day.
Philip N. Cohen | Posted 09.13.2008 | Entertainment
During the first decade of her megastarhood, Madonna perfected not only the arts of pop music, bothering feminists, and arousing boys (and girls), but the ability to use feminism to generate controversy.
The Sun | Posted 09.13.2008 | Entertainment
THIS is the orphan whom Malawian officials say pop goddess MADONNA is "on the very cusp" of adopting. Madge originally scrapped her year-long battle ...
Karin Badt | Posted 06.25.2008 | Entertainment
Alerting audiences to the painful problems in Malawi is an exceptionally good thing, but Madonna's new film is weak, largely due to Madonna's over-the-top urge to make this a film of hope.
Walden Bello | Posted 06.14.2008 | Politics
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Daily Mail | Posted 06.09.2008 | Entertainment
The father of Madonna's adopted son David may challenge the decision by the High Court in Malawi to grant permanent custody to the pop star. Peasant ...
AP | RAPHAEL TENTHANI | Posted 07.29.2008 | Entertainment
BLANTYRE, Malawi — Some 100 miles from Malawi's capital, the dusty village of Lipunga has no movie theaters or video players, let alone electric...
Joanne Bamberger | Posted 05.04.2009 | Media