So Angelina Jolie is a celebrity and clearly used her name and fame
to fast-track her most recent adoption, right? Or she must have
given some big donation to the adoption agency or to the orphanage her new son came from, right?
Wrong. According to Adoptions From the Heart, the agency Angie used to execute her adoption of Pax Thien, the answers are No and No. No special treatment, no big donation. Here
are current adoption laws associated with the U.S. and Vietnam, and
from reading this I get the impression that once everything is
approved, the child is handed over within seven days and that the
entire process often takes only about six months, less time than for
other foreign adoptions. Angie began her process last summer.
Yeah,
this news surprised me too, and I'm still a little skeptical.
Still, which makes you feel better: thinking Angie's a typical
American celeb who uses her money and power to get what she wants, or
thinking she's (kinda) a mom like the rest of us (if we had that body
and that face and Brad Pitt and all that money, yeah. Identical.)?
