[strider44]

"I disagree.

Why the need to publicise the adoption? Why are older children less worthy of celebrity attention?

Is it because the only disadvantaged children are babies, or is it because they would be too much wotk for Hollywood attention whores to cope with, and have far less cutesy photogenic appeal than babies?"

So you're saying it's better that they adopt nobody if they don't take the older kids?

That's crazy.

[MadIvan]

The point is, which you are missing badly, is that this smacks of an adoption for all the wrong reasons. Is adopting children as a publicity stunt something we should encourage? Are you so base as to believe that any adoption, so long as it is from Third World to First is a good thing, even if it is to parents who regard the child as a prop rather than a human being?

Ivan