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Media Coverage of Adoption -- It's Not Just About Madonna

Joanne Bamberger | Posted 05.04.2009 | Media


Joanne Bamberger

Is the Washington Post suggesting that finding two young girls dead in a freezer is somehow more heinous becase the mother had adopted them?

DENIED! Madonna's Malawi Adoption Request Rejected By Court

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...

Madonna Throws Pre-Adoption Party In Malawi

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...

Madonna Is a Motherless Daughter. Give Her a Break.

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 05.03.2009 | Entertainment


Irene Rubaum-Keller

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.

Madonna Merits Praise, Not Jeers

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.03.2009 | Entertainment


Earl Ofari Hutchinson

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.

Madonna's Lawyer: No Law in Malawi "Can Stop This Adoption"

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"...

Madonna's African Adoptions Part Of Growing Trend

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...

Madonna's Adoption: Back Off, Big Mouths, She's Not "Stealing" A Baby!

Bonnie Fuller | Posted 05.01.2009 | Entertainment


Bonnie Fuller

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.

Madonna Breaks Silence, Confirms Adoption Push

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...

Madonna Goes Shopping For Another Black Kid

Ian Gurvitz | Posted 05.01.2009 | Comedy

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Ian Gurvitz

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.

MIA: Madonna And Gucci Fundraiser Funds Still Unaccounted For

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...

Madonna Tours Impoverished Malawi School In $2800 Chanel Sweatsuit (PHOTOS)

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...

Madonna's Adoption Ruling Delayed, Son David Meets Biological Dad

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 ...

Madonna, in Malawi, refuses to talk about adoption

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...

UK Charity Urges Madonna To Reconsider Adoption

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...

Court To Examine New Madonna Adoption

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...

Officials: Madonna Files Papers To Adopt Malawian Baby #2

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...

Madonna's Flings May Foil Adoption Plans

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...

For Love or Money? Should Madonna's son stay with her or go back to Malawi?

Vanessa Richmond | Posted 11.23.2008 | Living


Vanessa Richmond

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.

Madonna Turns 50: Wither Feminism?

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 09.13.2008 | Entertainment


Philip N. Cohen

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.

Mercy James: Madonna & Guy Adopting Girl, Says Paper

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 ...

Madonna: "I Am Because We Are"

Karin Badt | Posted 06.25.2008 | Entertainment


Karin Badt

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.

Destroying African Agriculture

Walden Bello | Posted 06.14.2008 | Politics


Walden Bello

African agriculture is a case study of how doctrinaire economics serving corporate interests can destroy a whole continent's productive base.

David Banda's Birth Father: Let Me See My Son

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 ...

News Of Madonna's Malawi Movie Reaches David Banda's Birth Father

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...