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MissJones
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Angelina adopts a girl!
Angelina Jolie Adopting Ethiopian Girl
Jul 6, 7:28 AM EST
Hollywood star Angelina Jolie is adopting an orphaned Ethiopian baby girl, an official said Wednesday.
Jolie visited the Horn of Africa nation last week to file her adoption request, accompanied by her 3-year-old son, whom she adopted in Cambodia, and actor Brad Pitt, her co-star from the recently released "Mr. & Mrs. Smith."
"The paperwork has gone through. Miss Angelina's request was accepted last week. Everything has been completed, so the family can take the baby whenever they want," Hadosh Halefom, head of the country's state-run adoption agency, told The Associated Press.
The child "is less than a year old," Hadosh said, refusing to elaborate.
Hadosh said Jolie met the 10 conditions for adopting a child from Ethiopia.
"The two most important are economic capabilities and check with the police," Hadosh said. "Although she is a film star, she still has to meet the same requirements as everybody else."
The country of 70 million has more than 5 million orphans, their parents lost to famine, disease, war and AIDS — a catastrophe the government has said is "tearing apart the social fabric" of the east African nation.
Caring for the orphans costs $115 million a month in a country whose annual health budget is only $140 million. Because of that, Ethiopia has gone out of its way to make adoption easier.
In 2003, a record 1,400 children were adopted from abroad, more than double the number in the previous year. The number of private adoption agencies in Addis Ababa, the capital, has doubled in the past year to 30.
Ethiopia has enacted strict laws to thwart dubious adoption agents and to ensure that the orphan really exists, that the paperwork is not fraudulent and that no AIDS-infected children are being passed off as healthy.
Agencies charge fees of around $20,000 per child, a relatively inexpensive fee compared to many other countries.
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june262004
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Re: Angelina adopts a girl!
She seems like a good mother to Madox (whatever his name is) I think its nice that she goes to other countries to help.
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usuk2004
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Re: Angelina adopts a girl!
Posted by june262004
She seems like a good mother to Madox (whatever his name is) I think its nice that she goes to other countries to help.
I agree on both accounts...strange that Brad was with her, though, huh? 
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| Posted 7/6/05 10:09 AM |
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FeliciaDP
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Re: Angelina adopts a girl!
Posted by june262004
She seems like a good mother to Madox (whatever his name is) I think its nice that she goes to other countries to help.
I wholeheartedy agree - despite what we may think of her in other aspects, I think that she is a great mom and is doing a wonderful thing by adopting these children..
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| Posted 7/6/05 10:29 AM |
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Re: Angelina adopts a girl!
Awww thats great. More people should adopt like she does.
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| Posted 7/6/05 10:34 AM |
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mrswask
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Re: Angelina adopts a girl!
I think that's wonderful, but seriously, what's with Brad coming too? Just admit it already!!!
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| Posted 7/6/05 10:42 AM |
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dld4e
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Posted by FeliciaDP
Posted by june262004
She seems like a good mother to Madox (whatever his name is) I think its nice that she goes to other countries to help.
I wholeheartedy agree - despite what we may think of her in other aspects, I think that she is a great mom and is doing a wonderful thing by adopting these children..
I couldn't agree more!
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| Posted 7/6/05 10:48 AM |
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MrsJ
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Maybe Brad was there for the Ethopian premier of "Mr & Mrs Smith" 
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| Posted 7/6/05 10:52 AM |
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FeliciaDP
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Re: Angelina adopts a girl!
Posted by kelleherkm
Maybe Brad was there for the Ethopian premier of "Mr & Mrs Smith"
That MUST be IT!!
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| Posted 7/6/05 11:02 AM |
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SoinLove
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Re: Angelina adopts a girl!
Posted by kelleherkm
Maybe Brad was there for the Ethopian premier of "Mr & Mrs Smith"
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| Posted 7/6/05 12:25 PM |
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Tany
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Re: Angelina adopts a girl!
that's awesome, she has truly matured and changed so much after becoming a mother.
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| Posted 7/6/05 12:26 PM |
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dld4e
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Re: Angelina adopts a girl!
Posted by kelleherkm
Maybe Brad was there for the Ethopian premier of "Mr & Mrs Smith"
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| Posted 7/6/05 12:26 PM |
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LFitzy79
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Re: Angelina adopts a girl!
Posted by FeliciaDP
Posted by june262004
She seems like a good mother to Madox (whatever his name is) I think its nice that she goes to other countries to help.
I wholeheartedy agree - despite what we may think of her in other aspects, I think that she is a great mom and is doing a wonderful thing by adopting these children..
I couldn't have said it better....
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