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Madonna is back in Malawi and she’s getting a royal reception. The Material Mom is playing Mommy Warbucks to the impoverished country. And she’s also brought her soon-to-be-adopted son David back to visit his biological father. From Yahoo News: The U.S. pop diva, who sparked controversy last year when she decided to adopt one-year-old David Banda, chatted to local farmers and toured corn fields with aid workers, wearing dark glasses and knee-high boots and holding hands with her daughter, Lourdes. Madonna is expected to take Banda to see his father on Tuesday at the Home of Hope orphanage where he lived before he left Malawi. But her spokeswoman denied media reports she plans to adopt a second child. “The government of Malawi salutes Madonna for coming back with the child for the father to see him,” Minister of Information, Patricia Kaliati, told Reuters. Yohane Banda, David’s father, has complained he has no access to Madonna and struggles to get information about his son, who was placed in an orphanage after his mother died. Madonna is paying for a new clinic to be built in the village of Gumulira and is supporting efforts by aid groups to help improve food security and education there. See this just goes to show that if you want to adopt an orphan, make sure he’s really an orphan. Those birth parents can such pains (in the pocketbook). I’ll bet when Madge picks out her next kid (cause you know she’s shopping for one) she’ll make sure to stick to the “no family around to blackmail you” aisle of the orphange. |
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April 17th, 2007
