Ai yi yi
Davids father: Ill never escape stigma of Madonnas AIDS lie | the Daily Mail
The African peasant farmer also denied the superstars allegation that he had never visited his son at the orphanage, to which he was entrusted at the age of two weeks.
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In the TV interview, Madonna said David had been abandoned by his family. “No one from his extended family had visited him since he arrived,” she told Oprah. But Mr Banda insisted this was also “a lie”, adding: “I visited David many times, too many to count.”The baby was also visited by his grandmother, while Mr Bandas brother, Profera, “saw him almost every day, sometimes twice a day”.
Link sent to me from the hot in more ways than one, LisaV
So, do you guys think Madonna read Weaver’s Craft?
Sure she has. That’s that book that teaches you how to warp a loom, right? *snicker*
Sorry. It’s been a hell of a weekend here, and I need to have some snark.
Seriously, I think this whole thing has been handled abysmally (if that’s a word). If Madonna really cares about this child, she will send him back to Malawi and look for a child that really *has* been abandoned. Because that child isn’t David Banda. I feel terribly for that little boy.
From everything I read, the father does not want the boy back on a permanent basis. I don’t think he knew the full ramifications of adoption, but he did know that Madonna would keep the child (at least for a period of time). I think the father is tired of the misinformation about him.
It’s a mess.
Oh! Those were his relatives? How could Madonna have known that, since all those Africans look alike?
I’m starting to think it’s TOO BAD Madonna never met Angelina Jolie.
Adopted baby, will interview!
Plus, now she’s saying that the father and extended family are lying, because the orphanage director told her the child was abandoned.
Of course, what with her millions on promised donations to the country’s orphanages — money that IN NO WAY altered her adoption process in a country closed to international adoption — there’s no reason to doubt the director’s veracity. Much better to slander the father and bio-family instead.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,1937003,00.html
My head hurts. And so does my heart.
My outlet of choice for primal screams on this subject: your archived posts.
More evidence that Madonna is adopting from a birth family whose cultural context makes it almost impossible to imagine that they relinquished custody in a way that would make ethical adopters comfortable:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061119/en_nm/malawi_madonna_wedding_dc_1
“”I am happy again because I can have a family and David has another mother. He can now grow knowing that he has another mother in Malawi,” Yohane Banda told Reuters by telephone. His first wife died after giving birth to David.”