More Madonna adoption nonsense for you. First up, the father of the child Madge has adopted, has said that, while he was misled about what 'adoption' meant, he doesn't want human rights groups in Malawi to oppose the adoption. As previously reported, Yohane Banda initially supported the adoption, but then seemed to have second thoughts after he realised that his son would stay with the singer for good, something he says he didn't understand was part of the deal. But now he has told Time magazine that "I don't want my child, who is already gone, to come back. I will be killing his future", while telling the BBC that he doesn't want human rights groups in his home country to challenge the adoption (which they intend to do) because he fears the legal stress will persuade Madonna to return his son. So, there you go.
Meanwhile, Madonna herself has been talking about the adoption on the Oprah Winfrey Show. She said: "The media is doing a great disservice to all the orphans of Africa by turning it into such a negative thing". She explained that she first saw her new adopted son, David, in a documentary she is financing about Malawian orphans. She says: "I became transfixed by him. But I didn't yet know I was going to adopt him. I was just drawn to him". Commenting on the first time she met the boy, she continued: "I was in a state of panic, because I didn't want to leave him in the orphanage because I knew they didn't have medication to take care of him". She subsequently gained permission to take him to a clinic where he was given antibiotics. And so the road to adoption began.
On more general issues, Madonna added that the conditions she witnessed in Malawi were the equivalent of a "state of emergency", adding: "I think if everybody went there, they'd want to bring one of those children home with them and give them a better life."