Madonna is an American citizen, and has every right to adopt the child according to US and Malawi laws. So this harping by the British press about the Ritchie adoption not following THEIR rules, is just bizarre beyond belief.

Do I believe there has been some speeding up of the process on the Malawi side? Absolutely. But not because it is Madonna. The process of third world babies being adopted by wealthy Westerners is what is at play here, not celebrity.

It's all about the money, and ability of the wealthy elite to buy poor peoples' babies, body parts, etc. So the rants about Madonna are just that. Rants against Madonna by a bunch of people who didn't give a shit about this issue before Madonna did what thousands of wealthy people do internationally every single year: buy poor people's babies.