I don't understand why it is so out of fashion for these stars to adopt American children. We have plenty needing homes.
A blue-eyed white baby doesn't make near the social statement that a baby from the Third-World does. Especially if it's a little on the scrawny side.
Try it sometime. It's a nightmare
I understand and agree with your point, but would offer the following.
The conditions for children up for adoption in America are far superior to the conditions faced by children up for adoption in third world countries.
I'm not suggesting that American kids up for adoption have it good, or are living high on the hog, but there is no comparison between the conditions in the U.S. and in the majority of the rest of the world.
Even kids in the former Soviet states have it immensely worse than orphans here in America.
"I don't understand why it is so out of fashion for these stars to adopt American children. We have plenty needing homes."
Not really.
It's next to impossible to adopt a non-special-needs kid domestically.
Moreover:
First, costs about $50K. It's a big racket.
Second, you wait 2+ years.
Third, and most importantly, "open adoption" is the rage here in the USA. That is, birth momma and birth daddy (if around) know the adoptive parents' names and have visits with "their" child you effectively babysit. They show up, ask for money, demand money, and, as the adopted child gets older, start asking him or her for money, shelter --- etc. Heck, after you've raised them, they all but try to take the child you raised from you.
Fourth, adoptions in the USA unravel legally with a distirbing reglarity. Take care of a child for 7 years, then daddy gets out of prison --- claims he never knew about the child --- and demands "his" kid back. Foreign adoptions are generally much more final in this regard, if by nothing else, the distances involved.
In the states, you can love a child in foster care for 3 years only to be forced to return him/her to a bad situation because the birth mother got out of prison.
For the record, there are not plenty of babies who are available for adoption. What we have got is plenty of older boys available only after they've been scarred by abusive, drug addled birth families for years on end.
Disclaimer: I am not now, and will never, be standing up for Hollywood stars. LOL.
The reason many people wanting to adopt choose an overseas adoption is the few but potent examples of sick judiciary in this country. Judges have taken 4-year-old children away from their only parents (the adoptive parents) because some SHMUCK shows up and tests as the bio-father (sperm donor) and was never told his climax back in '02 made a child. It's such an atrocious occurrence that it's not worth the risk to the child.