Actress Angelina Jolie has questioned the processes Madonna employed when adopting Malawian boy David Banda last year, although she has also questioned the media's response to the adoption too. Jolie was being questioned about Madonna's decision to adopt little Banda, of course, because of her own much publicised adoption of two orphans, one from Cambodia and one from Ethiopia.
Speaking to French magazine Gala, she said that Madonna should have been wary about adopting a child from Malawi where adoption laws are undeveloped. Jolie: "Madonna knew the situation in Malawi, where he [David] was born. It's a country where there is no real legal framework for adoption. Personally, I prefer to stay on the right side of the law. I would never take a child away from a place where adoption is illegal".
But commenting on the media outrage that followed Madonna's adoption of Banda, she continued: "I have been horrified by the attacks she's been subjected to. All that should count is the happiness of her little David".