Angelina Jolie Throwing Stones in a Glass House?

Adoption advocates are none too happy with Angelina Jolie about her “gentle” criticism of Madonna for choosing an orphan from Malawi, a place without clear-cut adoption laws. They say Angelina’s adoption of her Cambodian-born son, Maddox, was hardly a model of legality.

Jolie later backtracked from her criticism of Madonna, and told People.com her words had been twisted. But some adoption advocates remain irked by the star’s failure to acknowledge her own adoption issues.When Jolie and then-husband Billy Bob Thorton adopted Maddox in 2002, she used Seattle International Adoptions, run by Lauryn Galindo - who was found guilty two years later of visa fraud and money laundering related to Cambodian adoptions.

Beams said that after Jolie’s adoption scandal, Cambodia closed its doors, and many families who were waiting to acquire children were left empty-handed.

“She [Jolie] adopted Maddox under a questionable agency, where the directors went to prison.” Beams added, “It would be nice to see her speak out on issues and policies surrounding international adoption.”

Besides me not understanding why people need to line up to adopt an orphan from one specific country when there are orphans all over the world, not to mention our own country, who will never get adopted, I guess it’s kind of messed up that Jolie’s actions indirectly blocked childless couples’ access to trendy Cambodian babies. There’s always Ethiopia, guys. [Source]

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