Madonna has published a letter claiming that she started the adoption process “months” before she traveled to Malawi and picked her non-orphan son-to-be out of a baby lineup:

My husband and I began the adoption process many months prior to our trip to Malawi. I did not wish to disclose my intentions to the world prior to the adoption happening as this is a private family matter. After learning that there were over one million orphans in Malawi, it was my wish to open up our home and help one child escape an extreme life of hardship, poverty and in many cases death, as well as expand our family.

Nevertheless, we have gone about the adoption procedure according to the law like anyone else who adopts a child. Reports to the contrary are totally inaccurate. The procedure includes an 18 month evaluation period after which time we hope to make this adoption permanent. This was not a decision or commitment that my family or I take lightly.

I am overwhelmed and inspired by my trip to Malawi and hope that it helps bring attention to how much more the world needs to do to help the children of Africa.

My heartfelt thanks for all the good wishes I have received and I hope the press will allow my family some room for us to experience the joy we feel to have David home.

If this is true, why did the orphanage representative say that Madonna selected David Banda out of 12 children that were hand picked for her? When you want to adopt a baby, don’t you have to have a specific one in mind first before you file the paperwork? It could be partially true that Madonna started the process way ahead of her trip, in that she asked for pictures and baby profiles to be e-mailed to her. I don’t believe her for a second and think that the only process she started was one that would help her select a child, not adopt a specific one.

Madonna is full of shit as usual. She’s getting an “18 month evaluation period,” but she doesn’t have to stay in Malawi like every other prospective parent. She also didn’t decide she wanted to adopt little David until she saw him and selected him.

Every year at Christmas my mom donates money to Heifer International, through which you can give a cow, goats, or chickens to a needy family in the third world. Donations go beyond mere charity to help people become self-sufficient. I saw a special on Oprah a while ago featuring Susan Sarandon and Goldie Hawn in which a young African woman and her mother came on to tell everyone how much their lives had changed after they were given some livestock through Heifer.

All Madonna had to do to “help one child escape an extreme life of hardship, poverty and in many cases death” as she put it, was to give Yohane Banda some goats or a cow. Instead that evil bitch snatched his only child, and is trying to justify it by saying that the family is too poor to keep him. She’s too immoral to set aside her desire for a specific baby for the good of the child and his long-suffering family.