Child Adoptions In Africa Today!

November 01-2006:

Child Adoptions In Africa:

It seems like most African states have laws that debar most individuals from adopting African children. What these laws are based on, or if they debar a foreign national or non-African national from adopting any African child, I am un-aware of.
However, with the thousands of African children, and growing in volume every year, as a result of continuous wars or military conflict in several regions of that continent. Some consideration for changing those laws to make it possible for adoption, aught to be considered.

The current situation that the pop star Madonna faces with adopting a Malawian child orphan, is a case in point. According to her public statements, she has been able to make arrangements to adopt that child, with the father's expressed consent. But is unable to take the child away to the U.S.A. permanently just yet. She claims that she had no knowledge that the child had visiting relatives, or a grand parent, who visits regularly or irregularly. And if she had known of this situation, then she may not have bothered to pursue that child's adoption.
However, she expressed her concern for anyone in the future, who intends to do the same for African children who are orphans, that the current laws there, inhibits the smooth process, or is not clear on who or what criteria is needed for Legal adoption to take place. And this situation inhibits the chances for millions of African children who are left homeless, parentless, HIV infected, and homeless, to ever be able to grow up normally, or have a normal future like their peers, under the current laws continentally.

Personally, bi-racial, and non-cultural adoptions have been happening for as long as I can remember globally. Whether that is the underlying reason for the conflict in Africa with Madonna's quest, is anyone's guess. However, politics will not help those children who desperately need homes, parents, educating, and someone to make them feel loved. If politicians and un-realistic laws prohibit such reality!
Humans adapt to any environment, or culture overtime. And children of bi-national and bi-racial marriages have also learned to adapt to that reality, and grow up to be responsible adults and parents themselves, in this multicultural world that we all occupy.

Derryck S. Griffith.
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