[MouseWife]

I thought that Madonna was going to make a big contribution to the Malawis? To help build a school or something?

I wonder why, at this stage, is all of the complaining coming about? Obviously it has been in the process for a while.

About the adoption. {and I am only going by what little I've heard} The boy was living in an orphanage? This is something I heard many years ago...

My sister used to go to TJ with her church to the orphanages to tend to the children and the families. See, the families would place the children there because they couldn't tend to them but they were still their parents. Maybe they aren't really called orphanages?

We had been considering adopting a child from there and my husband spoke with a friend from work {who lived in TJ}. He said the kids were not up for adoption. They frowned upon adoption. The parents didn't want to give up their kids, they just couldn't take care of them.

Perhaps this father thought that it would be best for the child for Madonna to adopt him {maybe she did give him money or else just the thought that he would have a better life/he wouldn't have to worry about him any more} but then he got flak from it {like others have mentioned}.