African Babies: The Latest Fashion Accessory

No doubt you’ve been assaulted by the news reports of this or that Star adopting a child from Africa. If you are like me, you wonder why.

Why Africa? Why all the Publicity?

And you realise that to show how ‘liberal’ they are, these great ‘humanitarians’ have to go thousands f miles from their mansions to find an unsuspecting child to be the soap box they stand on.

That they are white and the child is black increases their ‘accreditation’, but what about the child? What about the child who never for one second feels s/he belongs? What about the child, taken thousands of miles from s/he knows, to a strange country and dumped
into the lap of the hired help?

These Hollywood Super Stars, with the morality of alley cats, who take each other’s wives and husbands,
marry and divorce as one changes a shirt, are they the best choice?

If this one wasn’t famous, would she be allowed to adopt a dog from a shelter?
Is the best home one with an adulterous couple who leaves them with one nanny
or another while they cultivate their fame?

Oprah Winfrey opened a school in South Africa. This will do more for the children and their future than  were she to play ‘mommy’. But Oprah Winfrey, unlike the others, has no problem with herself. She  doesn’t need to pull stunt after stunt to get her name or face in the newspaper.

When an average person seeks to adopt a child from another country, usually it is because there are not enough children in their own country to adopt.

This trafficking in children should attract legal interest, not just that of the prurient public which reads tabloids and relishes the immorality their ‘idols’ practice.

Yes, I’m sure being in an orphanage in some forsaken place is not particularly nice. However, the same money these ‘Stars’ spend on their cosmetics could be used to create the best orphanage in the world, with professionals hired to insure that these children grow up happy and loved.

Having these children adopted in country by well investigated locals and insuring that school  fees and medical care is paid for, would be far more in the interest of the child.

But who cares about the child?