1860 Adoption Hollywood style

Gone are the good old days of Hollywood adoptions, when the movie stars married, adopted a cute little baby, then divorced and discarded the kid to boarding school and occasional visits and he grew up to write about his life (Michael Reagan son of Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman); or the movie star had a baby out of wedlock then adopted her (Judy Lewis, daughter of Loretta Young and Clark Gable). Then there was Joan Crawford, who kept adopting children AFTER each divorce. I don't know if the subsequent husbands adopted her adopted-while-single children.

Now Brad Pitt wants to adopt Angelina Jolie's two adopted-internationally children, but he doesn't love them enough to marry their adoptive Mom, and I suppose we could assume he doesn't love her enough to get married. So he has to go through the expense and hassle of a non-relative, single parent adoption, instead of a step-parent adoption.

I don't think it's a good idea for a single woman, or men for that matter, to adopt--all studies show children do best with both a mother and a father--and having her boyfriend then adopt the adoptees is really a bad idea. Wasn't it Woody Allen who started that trend, he raised girlfriend Mia Farrow's adopted children and then married one of his non-adopted, Korean step-daughters adopted by Andre Previn? Of course, he didn't actually adopt them all, so I suppose he's in the clear.

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