Word: adopting
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Madonna’s recent troubles began when she filed papers to adopt a Malawian boy, David Banda, as her son. She was then accused by the international community of using her celebrity status to side-step Malawi’s laws. The birth father subsequently made and retracted statements of consent to a gleeful media, and a great many international figures have spoken on the topic...
That’s a reasonable argument, but it’s not the whole truth. Since there are over 120,000 children in the U.S. foster care system awaiting permanent homes according to the Associated Press, economics alone cannot account for the demand to adopt from abroad...
Acknowledging the present state of the globe forces the realization that even if every “first world” family were to adopt an underprivileged baby, the children of the Global South would still not be saved. There are too many of them in need. The real solution—and here the moral and the economic solutions happily coincide—is to give these children a dignified way to live in their own countries and homes. If well-meaning families truly love these children enough to give them a better life, then they should work...
...It’s not going to put Harvard on the front page of The New York Times.” Possibly not. But maybe this is an issue where the best course of action isn’t to make waves in the national press but to adopt ideas that have already worked. Working within the current Core structure, slightly revising the categories, and drastically increasing the number of departmental courses that count seems like a good starting place...
...sarcasm by Alec Baldwin. When Norman walks out on the family, Deirdre begins seeing Dr. Finch (Brian Cox, “The Bourne Identity”), an unorthodox therapist who medicates her with pills, pills, and more pills. Desensitized to the world, Deirdre allows Finch and his family to adopt Joseph, which in the name of preserving her sanity. Augusten embarks upon life with the Finches, perhaps the most neurotic, Freudian-inspired family in the history of literature and cinema, which includes the doctor, his put-upon homemaker wife Agnes (Jill Clayburgh, “Ally McBeal?...