Madonna has spoken about her ongoing attempts to adopt Malawian toddler David Banda at a press conference for her new film, 'I Am Because We Are', a documentary about AIDS orphans in the African country.
She said: "Hopefully, after we get through this adoption, it will be easier for people to adopt children. It was painful, and it was a big struggle, and I didn't understand it, but in the end I rationalised that, when a woman has a child and goes through natural childbirth, she suffers an enormous amount. So, I sort of went through my own kind of birthing pains with dealing with the press on my front doorstep accusing me of kidnapping or whatever you want to call it".
She continues: "There is nothing controversial about the adoption. It is just there's a lot of bureaucracy and administration. This adoption essentially was the beginning of the creation of adoption laws in Malawi. I am the template or the role model so to speak for future adoptions".