Madonna To Reunite With Child Soon

Amid Talk Of Special Treatment From Advocacy Groups, Rep Says Singer Hopes To See Boy In A Few Days

(CBS/AP)  Boniface Mandere of Eye of the Child, a local child protection society involved in the challenge, told The Associated Press earlier Monday: "The court seems to have made a decision based on Madonna's wealth. But being a good parent is not about money, it is about caring, having heart. It's about love."

Madonna has donated $3 million to a local orphanage.

Mandere said his group was not necessarily opposed to the adoption, but wanted to ensure the law was followed.

"It is highly unusual for an adoption to proceed this rapidly," adoption attorney Paula Mackin said on The Early Show Monday, though Mackin added it's possible this adoption could have been in the works for a long time before it became public.

"It lends itself to a certain cynicism around adoption, which is very unfortunate, because adoption is a good thing. International adoption is a wonderful way to build a family. These children need permanent, loving homes. So, to the extent that it makes people believe that this process is influenced by money or other, outside factors, it is unfortunate.

"I just hope that instead what it does is provides an incentive for people to look to these children as possible subjects for adoption, and that it will support international adoption instead of undercut it."

Mackin added: "It's got to be very confusing, at best, for (other) parents who have waited (much longer). And indeed, parents who adopt internationally often have to wait a couple of years or more before that adoption is final. … It seems to them, no doubt, to be a shortcut that's been provided. We don't know that that's the case. But I can understand why it would be very difficult for these parents who have been waiting so long for their child."

David did not leave with Madonna and Ritchie on Friday because final legal arrangements were still being made, Madonna's spokeswoman said last week. Over the weekend, Malawian officials had said, members of Madonna's entourage stayed behind to care for the boy.

Madonna and Ritchie have a son, Rocco, 5, and the singer also has a daughter, Lourdes, 9.

Madonna's charity, Raising Malawi, is setting up an orphanage for up to 4,000 children.

Malawi is one of the world's poorest countries, devastated by AIDS and periodic drought. According to the National AIDS Commission, the HIV/AIDS pandemic has left close to a million orphans here. Because AIDS has killed so many young adults, many children are left in the care of grandparents or older siblings.

[hermit22]

Why doesn't tightwad Madonna send the REAL father some money to raise his own son?

She should send money and keep her mouth shut.

[global_chick]

What a crock. Just because she's a celebrity she gets to flout the laws?? What about the rest of us who have to cut through a year and a half to two years of red tape and bureaucracy with no guarantees? Disgusting.

[agnim]

When will these mindless, lost and cuckoo and cruel celebrities go and get a life!

If they really wanted to help, then would send money and other useful resources, rather than kidnapping the children from their indigenous culture to *** up their identity later in life.

Another thing the mad madonnas jive jolies of the western world can do is to lean on their governments to cease robbing the developing world blind, return stolen wealth, and so allow the people within their own culture.

Those know well how to take care of themselves. They have been doing so for hundreds of thousands of years, long before there were people call Europeans on the planet invaded to rob, rape, pillage and destroy their cultural bases.
Now they return like 'white angels' to save the natives? Who the hell is deceived by such devilishness?