HOBBIES
HOBBIES: Some people just collect baseball cards.
(Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie)
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you know, for all the hoopla about brangelina creating some perfect spawn, that blond-haired baby is not the cutest that i have ever seen. in the way of babies it is rather so-so.
Well, don’t forget, she’s got John Voight as a grandpa…
“so-so”? It looks Slitheen
LOL.
Looks like they’re all takin’ a ride on Fail Boat to me.
Well, at least Pitt and Jolie can afford to take care of the babies.
And they can afford and have hired a Nanny for each and everyone of those adoptees. Some parents actually manage w/o domestic help…
I’d like to see either one of them try it without their nannies…
They’d be dead in a week.
Scratch that: Two days
Yeah. We manage, all right. Barely. The extended family used to play the role that nannies do for rich families now, and we don’t have that so much now.
Adoption is wonderful. Please do not be snide or snarky about it.
And wut Ms Valit said — they can afford to take care of them!!!
I aggree that adoption is a beautiful thing, but why is it that they didn’t adobt their children from America? Why is it that people feel the need to adopt children from other coutries? We, beleive it or not, are a poor country with just as many needy children as say, Africa or some other decaying country. People really need to focus on helping out Americans first, perhaps narrow the gap between the wealthy elite and working class.
Thank you. I didn’t see your post and I just posted the same thing. We need to take care of our own, only the “haves” just look down their noses at the “have nots” in this country.
Yes, and adoption is one of the ways the haves look down at the have-nots. The poor in America have historically been seen as a source of children for the childless rich. I hate seeing people trump it as some great institution. It’s only great if the child in question is an orphan and has no family. I suspect adoption has waned in popularity because adoptive parents are not allowed to bully the poor into giving up their kids anymore, and are expected to be honest with the kids they adopt about where they come from. Whereas, if you economically coerce some third-worlder who doesn’t even speak English, it’s a lot easier and they live in another country and are dirt-poor so they will never, ever come hunt you down.
Cynical? Why, yes. American FAMILIES need help, not just American children. If we didn’t have this pervasive cultural concept that the poor are failures and that seeking help is wrong, I wouldn’t have lost one of my own children and he wouldn’t have to be growing up without his mom. I’m not a drug addict, I’m not a criminal, I just got really unlucky. And I am no less worthy of help than someone under the age of 18.
I can’t speak for Brangelina, but for most “average” families looking to adopt, the red tape and expense are far too much to adopt from America. They look to foreign countries, usually in desperation after years of trying to “work the system” in America. The adoption process in the U.S. really needs to be revamped.
Ah, but they can afford it.
But I agree. The whole social services needs to be fired, reworked, redone, and flushed completely of those crazy people who think sending a child who’s parents are loving but can’t to feed it to a foster home where they are abused is the right thing to do.
I’d rather you rephrase the “People really need to focus on helping out Americans first” to something more fitting…
That aside, its true, people are always going for “foreign” children from poor counties. That’s because what you see on television is never of local struggle. People only see the starving Ethiopian children…
And then on the other hand…. The entire US isn’t exactly a cesspit with no food or an enormous lack of medical expertise or education.
Some people(like Madonna, imo) just plain exploit adoption and do it because “that’s what cool celebs do”. But looking at Angelina Jolie’s situation, she has a true love for helping children, be they in Malibu or Ban Pong. I say let them make their choice without strangers judging them for it.
WOW late long comment is late and long.. haha, sorry
My biggest thing is that they’re making about as many as they’re adopting it seems. Way to help out.
Well… adoption huh?
maybe one of the two is a bit impotent, and try to cover it up this way X3
no, they’ve had at least one child biologically.
not that it’s any of my business.
It’s a joke, lighten up. We all know that adoption is a good thing. Maybe you should try a sense of humor. I hear those are good, too.
I agree with Srab- XD The baby isn’t too adorable. I’ve seen way cuter.
I think Violet Affleck is just GORGEOUS! And so is Suri Cruise. Shiloh? Not so much.
Some people juggle geese!
Baby geese. Goslings.
Maybe they should invest in some black-market beagles?
Or perhaps wobbly headed geisha dolls…
Dear Buddha -
Please bring me a plastic pony and a rocket.
Just beware of lovely ladies lighting incense.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! These two are the biggest fakes on the planet! Adoption is a good thing when you give a child a stable home, it’s not necessarily a good thing when you have two vain morons for parents who cart them around like toy poodles and pimp them out to the ‘razzi.
And she’s publicly admitted to at least one suicide attempt several times, not quite a few years before she adopted the first one. I don’t know what Californaiyay is like but here in Ohio, some very good friends of mine (in their thirties) have been turned down to adopt several times because the wife attempted suicide…
when she was eighteen.
Why do people want to trash these two? Jesus on steroids – they’re not hurting anyone and tend to give back some oftheir wealth and time and effort to others. Why in the world attack their bio-child for not being cute enough??? WTF are you people smoking? Something not very pleasant, I guess.
Thankyou! They don’t hurt people, they’re just helping. There’s no freakin way they could feed every kid on the planet (well, they coooouuuuld… extremely difficult) but it’s great that they do what they can.
What I want to know, when those two part ways, and they will, what happens to all those kids?
I don’t like the fact that they’re adopting them the way some people collect animals. We call THOSE folks hoarders. I don’t see the difference, except that it involves other human beings instead of animals.
If they’d had all those kids biologically, is that collecting too?
I have a lot of philosophical issues with the adoption industry, but if someone is going to have a lot of kids it might as well be a person of means, I guess.
The kids are theirs legally, so there’d be a custody arrangement the same way there is with biological kids. Not that I necessarily think these two would split. I figure it’s about a 50-50 chance at this point…
It saddens me when people adopt kids from outside the US and make it seem like they are doing something so great, when there are children in their own back yard that need help too that just get ignored. A part of me thinks Brangelina are doing good things around the world, while the other part wonders why its not closer to home.
I am ALL for adoption but why not adopt from ‘home’ first? I know there is a lot of red tape but with their millions, I am sure they can surely manage to adopt.
Maybe they’ve been trying to since the begining, and it still hasn’t gone through. These other kids are just for fun.
Seriously, we’re going to judge them for adopting children?! If they have the money and love to provide for them, what the hell is wrong with that?! Sure they have nannies to help, but it isn’t correct (as one poster mentioned above” that each child has a nanny. From all available sources these children seem happy, loved and very well taken care of – what the hell is wrong with that?!
I also take issue with the fact that kids who are moved around a lot are somehow unhappier or at risk compared to children who stay in one place their whole lives. Have you ever heard anybody say this of so-called army brats? The whole point of being pro-family (as so many supposedly pro-family people seem to forget) is that as long as it works for them, who the eff are you to judge?!
Fact or Fiction??
By Courtney Hazlett
The Scoop
msnbc.com
updated 8:26 a.m. CT, Wed., Oct. 29, 2008
Courtney Hazlett
The Scoop
What does it take to keep the Jolie-Pitt household running smoothly? A fleet of cars and a half-dozen nannies, for starters.
“We’ve provided them with more than 20 Volkswagens while they’re here in Berlin,” Mya Walters, a public-relations manager for the car company, told Life & Style magazine.
The magazine reports that the Pitt-Jolie Berlin digs also have a dinner table that seats 16 — that’s just a couple extra seats when you factor in their own family of eight and the six nannies the couple sometimes requires.
Yes, I see the “sometimes” there at the end, but jeeze louise.
Yeah, I judge them for everything, because they’re the two biggest phonies out there. Everything about them is smug and self-serving! So they adopted, so what? I know a lot of people who adopt and don’t congratulate themselves. They don’t give the children a stable home, their relationship is built on lies and betrayal, and they call the press whenever they give out chump change. People are starting to get tired of them and their act, I certainly am. They collect children, they don’t adopt them. And my friend in NYC who works at the school Maddox briefly attended had nothing good to say about the Jolie-Pitts. They’re pretty twisted, and they don’t deserve praise. I know a few people on my block who are more compassionate and more charitable than these two fakes.
So what’s wrong with American babies who need homes? Couldn’t they have adopted from their own country?
“Brangelina” have their issues but as adoption is accepted in this country, I don’t know why they should be held to a different standard than any other adoptive parents. Also? If they were low-income but famous, people would be all over them for having kids they couldn’t afford. They can afford them, so now they’re bad for hiring nannies. Any of you who have kids know full well what a full-time job they are, especially that young–they’re a Herculanean task even for the most dedicated parents. If you would enlist the help of friends or family for your own kids, don’t blame these two for seeking paid help.
That said: Why does America so uncritically and unconditionally accept adoption as a social good? If the only kids who were ever adopted were orphans with no extended family, or abuse victims who would die or be permanently damaged if they stayed with their families of origin, it would be one thing. Believe it or not, neither description fits the vast majority of children who are adopted. You’re more likely to languish in foster care your entire childhood if you’re an abuse survivor–virtually no prospective adoptive parents want to be bothered with your “issues.” And most surrendering parents are economically, culturally, or socially coerced into giving up their children. Believe me: there are almost NO baby factories out here who woke up one day and decided to conceive just for some poor widdle infertile rich b***h who put her career first and waited too long to have kids. Our worlds simply do not revolve around such people–we have lives and dreams of our own, thanks.
I’ll tell you why people are more likely to adopt foreign children. It’s easier to fudge the rules, easier to bully the surrendering parents and easier to lie to the kid about where they come from. There are too many laws in the United States protecting surrendering parents and as far as I’m concerned even those don’t go far enough. When I can read an article in a LIBERAL magazine by an adoptive parent asking “Did I steal my child?” that she adopted from Latin America, you know something is wrong. But it’s the elephant in the living room and no one will talk about it. They’d rather badmouth the surrendering parents, particularly the mothers, as being bad people (because otherwise they would have “deserved” to keep their children).
Meanwhile, to accept help from the social safety net is to admit to being a failure and a parasite, and it doesn’t help enough in any case. The Cadillac-driving “welfare queen” is largely myth–those who do drive nice cars are likely dealing, or the Cadillac is old (and therefore a crappy car), or someone felt sorry for the person. TANF doesn’t pay enough to keep body and soul together, and you have to make an indentured servant out of yourself to “earn” it. Medicaid is a joke. The food stamp program is designed to keep you in poverty. We refuse to take care of FAMILIES in this country and then we think it’s “helping” to break those families up. Our priorities are seriously screwed.
You are all clearly morons. Who cares where the kid comes from? It has a home. Period.
Thank You.
Reading these comments of everyone proclaiming “what’s wrong with American babies?” and “you have to help your own first” has infuriated me. I’m not American and have never heard that kind of talk before in my life. I wonder if it’s as common in the whole country as it is on this comments page….
i dont care how many kids they have .the kids dont want for anything.luk at the woman who had the octuplets and she dosent work.im not condeming anyone for having a ready made soccer team .14 kids u would need to earn a fortune every week.theres a website dedicated to the octuplets the website donations welcome.i aint donating nuthing.at the end of the day its no one elses problem she decided to go ahead and have all the bambinos she wasent forced into it.i do wish her well for the future cos its gonna be a very hard future for her
My reasons for judging them are that I’m sure they have an unstable home. You can’t give your attention to that many children, especially if you’re a movie star. Just look at the typical life of someone in Hollywood- are you going to convince yourself they’re the Jones’? They’re not. Having that many kids and rushing them off to nanny’s sounds like these kids are in a glorified foster home. Yes, we’ll take care of you- look at all your brothers and sisters- where’s your mommy? Somewhere else. Go enjoy your new toys. Smile for the camera! It’s typical knowledge that kids raised in the Hollywood lifestyle grow up to be crazy.
ROFL!!!
why couldnt they get a bunch of easy to take care of things?
what part of ‘you are responsible for this life’ dont they get?