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She's already adopted from Ethiopia, Cambodia and now Vietnam, and has given birth in Namibia. Be a globetrotter and tell us where Jolie should have her next baby-related epiphany in the comments below.

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• #378 Comment from ellfin52 
  4/25/07 9:50 PM | Permalink

  I would love to adopt and help these kids but I do not have the funds to help.  Some agency must be out there to help us.  I have a loving home and own my own business.  Please help us to help others.  ellfin52@aol.com
• #377 Comment from kardelisma 
  4/8/07 8:47 PM | Permalink

  Does anyone know how many US children in the Lehigh Valley area are not with parents?? Try Easton or Allentown or Bethlehem, Pennsylvannia..There is ABSOULATLY NO REASON WHY TO ADOPT OUT OF THE USA!!!!!!! We have kids in READINg,PA that are raising their mother's children that are stealing bread and milk at the age of 12years old! Thne those children end up in the Lehigh Valley for being caught with theft and get placed in Childre's Homes here!and we have to support them...repeat this to the movie stars,,,,come to PA to adopt and keep our taxes and welfare costs done and not need to fly or fight the oppoistion against the mixed race thing!!! We have them all here!!
• #376 Comment from elnermb 
  4/8/07 11:42 AM | Permalink

  I do not understand why people think that she should adopt from the US?  I have friends that are foster parents and also want to adopt. If you only knew how children in this country are treated. Angelina has made comments about how child abuse cases are not treated very serious and about the limited rights that children have in this country. She has also said that the US needs to address these issues and make them a top priority before it is too late. Angelina did try to help the children in the US and constantly had a door slammed shut in her face each time. No one in the US government wants to face the truth. The laws are not strong enough to keep children safe. Social Service has limited resources and, depending on the state, laws prevent them from permenantly removing children that they know will not be safe. There are states in this country that believe in keeping the "family together" which gives parents the right to get a second chance to abuse their children again. No one wants to adopt older children in this country. Older kids stay in foster care until 18 or in an orphanage. After age 18, there is still no family and really no future because who saved for college for them? Siblings get separated due to their ages or too many for one household to take. Some foster parents are in it for the money and not the children. My friends that are trying to adopt have been over looked time and time again. They are the best foster parents. They have been just used by Social Service. They want to stop, but the children will suffer because not all foster parents are good. They have finially decided that they are going to have to adopt from another country because the US has given them no other choice. They are not rich, so they are going to get a loan in order to afford the cost of international adoption. So take a long hard look at what the law makers and judges in the courtroom have done to the children in the USA.
• #375 Comment from rudybt 
  4/7/07 8:58 PM | Permalink

  I think if she's capable of mothering numerous children, why not adopt right here in the U.S. since this is the country that has made her a very wealthy person and also we have many needy children here in the U.S. that desperately need homes.  It really doesn't seem she'd have to travel the world to find homeless children.  We have so many right here and that would be very politically correct for her to do so.
• #374 Comment from sprvxn14 
  4/7/07 10:53 AM | Permalink

  I wonder if Angelina considers the children's feelings and mental/emotional health in the seemingly never ending adoption escapade. During this last adoption process that she embarked on she brought Maddox along. Now being from an orphanage himself, I could only imagine that continually going back and forth to these orphanages, in dangerous areas, can only invoke feelings of anxiety. Does Angelina not stop to think that perhaps Maddox, or any of her other adopted children for that matter, may be afraid that she may give them back or replace them, and working with children of that age personally I know that they are not to young to realize what is going on, and they are not to young to have those thoughts and feelings. Children of that age group operate with  magical thinking, so they could legitamtely believe that they may be replaced or going back to the orphanages.
     Secondly it cannot be healthy for those children to be toted around like luggage to these third world countries, with no physical basis of what 'home' is. How can Angelina and Brad possibly be spending quality time nurturing their own family while they're busy saving the world?