Jolie To Change Son's Last Name
Angelina Jolie Seeks To Change Pax's Surname To Jolie-Pitt
4LOS ANGELES, April 25, 2007 | by none
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Angelina Jolie, with Brad Pitt, Zahara and Maddox, traveled to Vietnam last month to adopt Pax from a Ho Chi Minh City orphanage. (AP Photo)
(AP) Angelina Jolie has filed legal papers to change the name of her newly adopted son to Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt.
A legal petition filed Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court states Jolie wants to change the 3-year-old boy's name so that it will include "the last name of her partner," Brad Pitt, and be the same as that of the couple's other children.
The petition was first reported by the syndicated television program "The Insider."
Jolie traveled to Vietnam last month to adopt Pax from a Ho Chi Minh City orphanage. The actress filed adoption papers as a single parent since she and Pitt are not married.
The pair's other three children are 5-year-old Maddox, who was adopted from Cambodia; 2-year-old Zahara, who was adopted from Ethiopia; and daughter, Shiloh, who was born to the couple last May.Photos: Angelina Jolie: Viet Mom
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Adopting an older child from foster care can be as much of a challenge. Our social system focuses so much on the rights of the families that children are kept in the system and passed from foster home to foster home for many years until they are unable to bond with the families who truly want to parent them. Many have suffered abuse and neglect. The number of young, healthy children available for adoption through foster care is very low.
International adoption allows families to adopt young children without the fear of them being "taken back" and on a relatively set schedule, as opposed to waiting indefinitely until being "chosen".
In the Jolie-Pitts' case, they are truly citizens of the world, working for the health and welfare of people from all nations. Why is it so odd that they should build their family from the whole world instead of just this nation?
It is made so complicated here and less than appealing, specially when considering the children abroad with less than nothing.
Officials should change the rules and allow for locals to adopt locals without too much "protocol" and pubilicity.
Just allow good citizens to do good citizenship deeds without "harassment" from public to politics.