Adoption is such a hot topic these days.
In the little time I had to peruse the Huff Post this morning I found three and half adoption related stories on the home page.
The half is one about Oprah. Since she wasn’t raised by her parents, she sort of qualifies for the orphan designation, and with the story being about her father spilling beans about a baby she had at 14, I’m calling this related. Apparently, he’s writing a ‘tell some’ book, although the hype is that he knows it ALL.
I sincerely doubt that.
Move up the page a fraction of an inch, and Angelina Jolie is announcing she’s taking a year off to spend time with Brad and the kids. Good for her. I suspect she’ll end up even busier than when she’s working, though, as she’s not exactly the sit-around-and-eat-bonbons-while-the-kids-watch-Baby Einstein type.
I think I’ll make a prediction here that within the next twelve months there will be reports of new efforts on her part toward some worthy attempts at change for the positive in the world.
Over to the left side of the page, Chris Kelly’s blog slams critic Michael Medved for slamming Katherine Heigl for slamming birthin’ babies as a pastime … this while coming off her latest film, “Knocked Up” … and suggesting adoption as a viable alternative.
Apparently the urine-tinged Medved … don’t ask me … has some investment in women bringing forth life from between heaving thighs, or something, and considers any other way of building a family as letting down the side.
Good to see he’s taking hits over that attitude.
And finally, there’s the story about the adoptive gay flamingo couple.
“Fernando and Carlos are a same sex couple who have been known to steal other flamingos’ eggs by chasing them off their nest because they wanted to rear them themselves,” said WWT spokeswoman Jane Waghorn.
Gay flamingos are not uncommon, she added.
“If there aren’t enough females or they don’t hit it off with them, they will pair off with other males,” she said.
Well … yeah. Isn’t that what they all do?
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Well, I just love the gay flamingos. That is uber-sweet 🙂
Yeah … who wouldn’t get a smile out of Fernando and Carlos? Wonder what they’ll name the little one …
By the way, it’s not easy to tell boy flamingos from girl flamingos; you have to get up-close and personal to figure that out. I suppose Ferdando and Carlos would have done really fabulous things with the nest, though, and that would have been a clue.