Does anyone see anything wrong with a wealthy white woman roaming around poor African villages to select a child to add to her family (“Shopping Mall-awi,” Andrea Peyser, March 31)?
Madonna must believe she is some sort of god and can do whatever she wants.
She even wants a child who has a grandmother who loves her.
If Madonna really wants to help children, why doesn’t she invest in one of these villages by providing an elementary school or a job-trade school?
Or maybe she could stay home and raise the children she already has.
Linda Greco
Cedar Grove, NJ
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Angelina Jolie and Madonna’s perception of themselves, that they are doing good by engaging in this public display of helping poor, Third World minorities, offering them selective shelter and privilege, is quite disturbing.
It displays the perverted liberal agenda that strong nuclear families are irrelevant — both women seem to have weak relationships at best — and that only the wisdom of the celebrity’s inner circle is needed to raise these children.
Both of these insecure airheads know fully well that only poverty-stricken societies are willing to take them seriously.
Jeremy Madden
Providence, RI
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I admire Madonna for her willingness to give a child a better life.
Trivializing her adopting a child from such a poor environment as “shopping” is a waste of time and newsprint.
The kid could have a much nicer life, go to the best schools and get the best medical attention that money can buy.
I’m 51 years old and I live in New Jersey. If Madonna wants, she can adopt me, too.
Jim Dolan
Princeton, NJ
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Madonna’s simply adopting more backup dancers for her concert tour when she turns 60.
Brenda Cibelli
Manhattan