Are the adopted children of celebrities transported to a happier life? The debate goes on...
Save The Children has slammed Madonna and urged her to reconsider her plans to adopt Mercy James. Spokesperson Dominic Nutt said that taking children away from their native countries was not a solution. "The thing to do is to support the community, to support local agencies and charities who can look after the child so that the child is at least cared for in their community," he told the BBC. “You cannot literally take every poor child who may only have one parent living, or no parent living, across the world and transport them all into Kensington in London.” Nutt also noted that international adoptions are feeding a mafioso ‘adoption insustry’. This wider issue goes beyond the celebrity adoption phenomenon, of course, but with many countries toughening their stance on international adoptions, celebrities could face far tougher procedures in the future.