Let's get one thing straight: I respect people who adopt. With the number of orphaned children in the world, anyone who opens their home to a child who would otherwise go parent-less deserves my unlimited praise. That having been said, I'm a little tired of the high-profile celebrity adoption. When Angelina Jolie adopted little Maddox and later Zahara, I think we all felt that it was a bold, generous move on her part.
But then there was the whole Madonna adoption debacle, which somehow seemed less like an act of love and more like a publicity stunt shrouded in the halo of self-righteousness. Be that as it may, I'm sure that the Material Girl will be a great mother to little David, so I can't really say that her decision to adopt was a bad one.
However, when Britney Spears decides that she wants to get in on the international adoption scene, I have to put my foot down. In the coming year, Spears plans to adopt a four-year-old child who was orphaned in the 2004 tsunami. If she does, little Wang will become her third child, two of which were from her now-defunct relationship with Kevin Federline.
Now I really don't want to be a hater, but doesn't it seem a little too coincidental that Britney suddenly decides to shape up at the exact moment when her fans seem to have run out of patience for her post-divorce, Paris Hilton hijinks?