Wthell?

She adopted him, and he's so cute! I'm watching Oprah tonight to see something about this and about the Dixie Chicks death threats against them.

another pic

Lourdes is pretty

Shes gonna be a problem when she gets older, anyway the baby is cute, Jolie for president

Her daughter probably wanted a real teddy bear ,coz she's a DIVA just like her mom.

It has a weird ass head

Madonna has really good looking children. Lourdes look so much like my eight year old niece, who actually has a modeling contract lol.

OK, so I just saw what the media was reporting on about Madonna. After hearing it, it is just further proof that the media are a bunch of assholes who like to say "Madonna does bigs things for popularity" [and other lies] ... But NOT ONCE was it mentioned that Madonna adopted the baby because she wanted to help the baby and give him a better life. Yuck, that makes me sick.

LONG LIVE MADONNA! <3

Aaaah,,that is so cute!!!

LOL she bought him.

Unfortunately because of all the scandal I don't know what to think about this.

Of course at first, it is a very good thing to do for those who want children and can support them with both care and finance to adopt because there are so many children out there who need people who can and want to care/look after them. But now with the statements from the biological father saying he was misinformed of the nature of the situation and only wanted the child to be fostered, not adopted, and educated but then given back to him - it's really terrible. The father can look after the child financially but couldn't manage the rest due to the death of the mother and hence wanted the separation to be temporary until he could manage and to have the opportunity for a good education for his son. This new situation implies that Madonna or her representatives or the personnel involved e.g. social services, lied, misinformed or or misreprested the situation - which if true is appalling and aggravating because it was unecessary. There are plent of children who are orhpans or whose parents/guardians want/need a permanent separartion.

We can only hope it's not true and that it was a mutually well informed decision and if the scandal is untrue then I think that there was a ton of unecessary exposure on this story because other celebs adopt without so much negativity and less attention.

Omg Madonna Is The Best!!!! I Love The New Child!:d

Pandora, but even so, although you could not say this in a non-harsh way: the child WOULD be better off with Madonna. Africa is AIDS stricken and it's sad that if this WERE to be true, that the child would have to go back to his father after living a nice life with Madonna. Of course, Madonna would be able to adopt another child, but imagine how ****** it would feel to have to give up her "adopted" child. You can't really win in this situation. It's unfair.

Cute!

wow Lourdes looks just like Madonna!
But cute baby, usually i think celebs deserve the amount of torture they recieve from the press, but in this case its just plain stupid. the baby will be far better off with madonna, theres no question.

cute baby! shes still a *****!

she was desperately trying to get her name in the headlines with thisssss

To Will and to a lesser extent Mr. Hollywood (the last sentence of your post):

Even though a child may be better off with someone else, if they are ok, well cared for and supported by the biological/legal guardian, no one else has the right to take them away unless the guardian consents and then it is determined for temporary or permanent. By the argument 'they would be better off' we can say that we'd all have been better off with richer parents growing up, even if we were wealthy already there's always generally someone wealthier. Does that mean that children from poor or very poor famillies should all be given away without mutual informed consent or given away at all if the situation is actually workable? If the child hadn't been cared for and/or couldn't be supported then it is a different matter.

If the situion had been misrepresented, Madonna's feelings would have been secondary to the biological fathers because it would be a case of his child being kidnapped/stolen through deception. As for the nice life, not being incredibly wealthy does not mean a person or in this case a child can not or wont have a nice life or childhood.

I'm not going to say much about the Africa argument you used because unfortunately it is misinformed. Africa is a huge continent and different parts of it in comparison to each other can really highlight that.