--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> 
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> 
> > wrote:
> <snip>
> > > > > He gives zero indication that he wouldn't have
> > > > > done exactly the same thing had he known about
> > > > > the legal nature of adoption.  At this point he
> > > > > has no desire to contest the arrangement.  One
> > > > > can only hope the media doesn't try to exploit
> > > > > *him* any further in the hope of making Madonna
> > > > > look bad.
> > > > 
> > > > Here's something for you to ponder: Let's assume the 
reporter 
> > > > asked all the questions that he did BUT ten minutes before 
he 
> > > > started asking the questions he showed the father Madonna's 
> > > > book "Sex" (and let's assume the text was in a language he 
> > > > would understand, so that he doesn't miss the anal-sex-is-
> > > > great! chapter), tell me: do you think his answers would be
> > > > the same?
> > > 
> > > If he understood how completely irrelevant the book
> > > was to the issue of his son and Madonna, sure.
> > 
> > ...and do you think for one minute coming from his culture that 
he 
> > would find such -- to him -- apostasy "completely irrelevant"?
> 
> Can't say, but if it were explained to him that she'd
> done the book 14 years ago and almost immediately
> strongly regretted it, I'd hope he would understand
> that she'd made a big mistake (especially if he were
> shown the books she's writing now, i.e., children's
> books).
> 
> If he couldn't understand that people make mistakes
> and that they can change, that would be too bad,
> wouldn't it?
>

What wouldn't be too bad is if some less rich family that didn't 
have such a past that ran totally counter to Malawi culture got the 
child.




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