Posted on 08/18/2004 7:03:49 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
BERLIN (AFP) - German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder confirmed that he and his wife have adopted a child, reported to be a girl from a Russian orphanage, but called on the media to respect his family's privacy.
"I can confirm that we have adopted a child," he told reporters in Berlin.
The head of Schroeder's Social Democrats party in his homestate of Lower Saxony, Wolfgang Juettner, said on Monday that the first couple had claimed custody of the girl, named Victoria, from Saint Petersburg.
Schroeder's wife, former journalist Doris Schroeder-Koepf, has a 13-year-old daughter named Klara from a previous relationship with a television reporter.
Schroeder, 60, reminded reporters that he had asked for no photographs to be taken when he visited his father's grave for the first time in Romania last week and asked for that courtesy to be extended.
"I ask you to respect my privacy," he said.
I am shocked and outraged to learn that the German Chancellor has adopted a Russian soldier. After the McGreevey scandal, the last thing we need is for another Western leader to involve himself in this kind of perverted, immoral . . .
What? He didn't adopt a Russian soldier? He adopted a Russian toddler? Never mind.
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder smiles during a press conference in Berlin. Schroeder confirmed that he and his wife have adopted a child, reported to be a girl from a Russian orphanage, but called on the media to respect his family's privacy.(AFP/DDP/Michael Urban)
It's like a sitcom... when the writters have all left for greener pastures and you are about to get cancelled, you have a baby, hoping noone will notice how much your show sucks.
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