Well, this will humanize her. I don’t think that’s why Charlize Theron has adopted a child, but it certainly helps, right? And don’t even tell me that wasn’t one of the first things you thought of too. “Oh, maybe she’s not like everyone claims, now she’s a mom!” Us Weekly confirms through Charlize’s rep that Charlize has adopted a baby boy named Jackson.
Surprise! Charlize Theron is now a mom!
A rep for the Oscar-winning actress, 36, tells Us Weekly in a Wednesday statement: “Charlize Theron has adopted a child. She is the proud mom of a healthy baby boy named Jackson.”
According to a source close to the single Young Adult star, little Jackson was born in the United States, and is African-American. Jackson is the first child for Theron.
“She has always wanted to be a mom,” the source tells Us. “She is glad to be able to do it on her own now and is so happy to be a mom.”
The never-married South African beauty split with actor Stuart Townsend in January 2010 after nine years together — and the breakup prompted a whole new chapter in her life.
She told the December 2011 issue of Vogue, “This is the first time [being single] in my life. From the time I was 19, I’ve been in relationships, literally gone from one to the other within a month.”
[From Us Weekly]
Congrats to Charlize and baby Jackson. I wonder if this was a foreign or domestic adoption. I’m assuming Charlize is an American citizen at this point (although I really don’t know), but she was born in South Africa, and she still does a lot of charitable work in Africa. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if she adopted an African baby, that’s what I’m saying. I can’t wait to see baby photos!
UPDATE: Sorry about the confusion re: the birth place of her son. I’m an idiot, and I just wrote this up really fast. My bad.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Congrats and best wishes! I think anyone who has ever wanted to be a mother should do it!!!
Yup, I agree! CONGRATS!!!
For some reason I was imagining Charlize adopting an Asian baby.
As an Indian, I wouldn’t mind her adopting an Indian baby either. Hell, she can still adopt me lol.
This woman is pure class and insanely gorgeous. Also, I just bought Young Adult on DVD <3 Biggest Oscar snub… I think so!
Is this source “close to Theron” legit? I don’t know but I thought for a minute this baby might be the lucky nugget: http://www.popsugar.com/Kristen-Stewart-Chris-Hemsworth-Photo-Shoot-21519908?slide=1
I hope she goes the way of Sandra Bullock and doesn’t pimp out her baby. No matter how crazy she might be, she does seem quite private, so I think she will. Congrats 😀
She became a citizen back in 07 (although she’s still a south african citizen as well)
Yes you can hold dual citizenship as a South African fairly easily.
Kaiser,
It says in the article that she adopted an African American baby boy:
“According to a source close to the single Young Adult star, little Jackson was born in the United States, and is African-American. Jackson is the first child for Theron”
The article you quoted says the child is African-American, born in the US.
am surprised, i always thought she made a comment like kids werent her thing…; i guess she changed her mind.
good for her, i wish her and the baby the best.
No, she has said she wants a baby. It’s marriage she didn’t want.
She said she was afraid of giving birth. The concept of popping out something that big through a small orifice freaked her out.
Problem solved! Good luck to her and Jackson. I want to see him. I’m weird and like babies but not toddlers. Now that Louis Bullock is a toddler I need a replacement (at least until Louis hits school age) although Baby Simpson will be here any minute. If that one is a girl, I can have two celeb babies to watch.
Well at least she didn’t pull a Beyonce good luck to her and congrats.
The story states the child is African American, ergo he was born in the US.
she has the double nationality since 2 years (if i remember well) and congrats for the little boy! nice normal name!
last summer,she said she wanted babies(even adopted if she was alone)
Congrats to Charlize.
And per Wiki she became a US citizen in 2007, she kept her SA citizenship.
thank for the update
Good for her congrats!!!
Good for her! Very admirable, congrats to new Momma and baby!
Congrats! Is that kid black or white? Just asking.
See comment #16
Does it matter? both Mamma [Charlize] and baby are African American.
+1!
A little off topic, but let’s say two white parents who are from Africa living in America (like Charlize) have a biological child, would that kid be considered African-American? I’m assuming yes, but just curious.
No, because the first part refers to ethnicity and the second part refers to nationality.
Depends on where child is born in america means american.
@EmmaStoneWannabe – As an african, i would say they are African even if they are white. Or given that the child is born in America, simply American. HOwever, as most people in American are [ethnic] American, the correct term would be African American. I don’t speak for all Africans but i would wager their attitude would be the same.
People have this misconception that Africa has or is only for black people, but there are White, Arab, Indian Africans as well as Black Africans and the resultant Mixed races too. They have ancestors who have been living in Africa for more than 200yrs so why should those other races not be African?
I have friends from East, Central and south Africa who see themselves as African with African roots and culture. The fact that they are white doesn’t change that for them.
Also, i now live in London where there are lots of African Indians, and when you ask them where they are from, they say Africa NOT India.
Yes. And when this hypothetical child transferred to an American high school, her classmates would be all, “If you’re from Africa, why are you white?” even though everyone knows you can’t just ask people why they’re white.
I’ve seen Prince Harry’s on and off again GF referred to as a “Zimbabwean” beauty so why not. I don’t agree with the “beauty” part but she is as Zimbabwean as anyone else as there is no actual ethnic group known as Zimbabwean.
There is definitely no ethnic group known as “South African”. I have no idea what either Chelsy Davy or Charlize Theron’s ethnicity is. The obviously trace their ancestry to Europe but they are African by nationality just like the American president who traces his roots to Kenya and Europe is American.
Most people black or white from Africa where born in a specific region such as Kenya or South Africa…they would be Kenyan American as far as I’m concerned or Nigerian American. African American’s like myself do not have the luxury of knowing which region we are from. Slave owners kept CRAPPY records. I know I have tried to trace my history back.
There’s a little pic of her and a baby on Yahoo; you can’t see the kid’s face, but he appears white? Though they’re saying that the picture of her is with a friend’s child…
i really happy for her. i think she is really lonely in her life. i wish her the best
congrats to charlize and jackson… watched young adult last night ans she was amazing in it.
I watched YA last night too. Interesting movie.
Congrats to her, and good on her for adopting a child from America! (It’s not like America has a shortage of children in need.)
The article says the baby was born in America and is African-American. That should answer all those pesky questions until we see pix of precious bebe.
Wonderful. She’s spoken a lot about wanting to be a mother. Congratulations to the new mom.
This story reminds me of my pet peeve against the term “African-American” — isn’t Charlize the African-American in that family, not the baby (who is just American).
I never thought of that. Good point!
I actually find the term rather racist. On one hand, why should any Americans be singled out by colour or ethnicity? And secondly, if the point is to underline that one is African-American and not African-African, that is too.
You never hear “Afro-Cuban” or “Afro-Brazilian”, “Afro-Brit” etc.
Uhhh, I’ve heard all of those terms.
I’ve heard them too actually…
Then I hope you have the same sentiments about Irish American and Italian American…among others.
I have heard those as well. Add nigerian american (which is what I am) to the list. People choose to identify themselves in different ways. Thats what makes america the melting pot it is.
I’ve heard them. A lot, actually.
I agree with Wendi and Lak. Also, while “Afro Cuban” and “Afro Brazilian” (etc) terms do exsist, the terms are NOT used in those countries. They are only used in the continental US and often scholars, not citizens. So I agree that in away those terms reaffirm the American practice of hypodescent.
But if the terms must be used to refer who is FIRST generation or whatever than Charlize is the African American and her child just an American.
I actually do feel exactly the same about Irish American or Italian American.
Take Canada. African-Canadian? Scottish Canadian? Polish Canadian? No, you don’t hear it. Possibly in the first generation, those who emigrated. From thereon in, everyone is just a Canadian.
As for “melting pot”, that pretty much means you all blend into one, not that you all identify yourselves by ethnicity. The ONLY reason to do that is to give yourselves groups you can “belong” to which defacto means that you can exclude others. And that my friend, is a form of intolerance right there, no matter how you want to phrase it.
@Inid: my point exactly. I have friends from Brazil of various ethnicities. Not one of them tacks on the continent their ancestors came from. Ditto for the Cuban friends, the Venezuelan friends and for that matter the African friends.
Most of my black friends just prefer to be called…black, seeing as they’ve never been to Africa. Plus, I’m almost always called white, not European-American. Never minded it.
BTW, have you seen this website?
http://www.365black.com
”Like the unique African Baobab tree, which nourishes the community with its leaves and fruit, McDonald’s has branched out to the African-American community, nourishing it with valuable programs and opportunities.”
What is this shit??
Your friends prefer to call themselves black because they do not know their history – they are African, black is just a colour. Chinese and Indian people are happy to call themselves by their race regardless of where they were born because they know who they are.
@WTF: Where do you get off assuming that? I prefer to be called black because I am black. Simple as that.
@WTF I prefer to be called black, as do many of friends family and associates. I have a ancestry of blended races due to slavery and mixed marriages like most blacks in America. African-American IMHO implies you’re a first or second generation from Africa who immigrated. I just hate the lumping because they are two different nationalities.
@WTF, that’s not necessarily true. I know quite a bit of my ancestry and while I know that while SOME of my ancestors were african, some were also indian and german-jewish. I am an american who is black.
@WTF
Your friends prefer to call themselves black because they do not know their history – they are African, black is just a colour. Chinese and Indian people are happy to call themselves by their race regardless of where they were born because they know who they are.
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Another assumption about Africans. Most Africans will identify themselves by their specific country and or Tribe if asked. At the very least regional African ie east/west/central/north/south African, never just African.
Having lived in Africa for several years, all I’ll say is that they called me “white”, they called themselves “black”. There was nothing pejorative in any of that, just a statement of fact.
@wendi – you are right in that when you are in Africa, you identify as simply white or black, but when you are abroad ie in the west and speaking to non Africans, when asked where you are from, most Africans say any one of either or all of region, country, tribe. Never just Africa.
It would be very evident to an African or someone with experience or knowledge of Africa where an African was from just by looking at them. eg i can identify someone from say east/west/south/north Africa just by looking at them. To a certain extent, their tribe too. I would therefore not need to ask them where they were from.
Charlize is not African she is a European born in Africa. The baby is African American duh!
@WTF – Charlize is Afrikaner. She is a descendant of the earliest Afrikaner settlers. Afrikeners settled in Africa in 1700s.
If that doesn’t make her African, i don’t know what would.
Good for her!
And I just have to say that if she really is dating Skarsgard and we start seeing him toting a baby around, I’m going to be a big puddle of “Awwwwwww”.
This!! God I’d love to see him with a baby!
I don’t know if I could stand the adorableness of that. 🙂
I want that so much. I want a photo of Alex and a baby. SO SO much. Please give us the photo world. We need it.
I applaud her for adopting an American kid.
I applaud her for adopting any kid.
+1
What difference does it make where the child comes from? People like you are sickning every child regardless of birth country needs a home. Why are American children somehow more deserving of a home?
@Marcus
If a child needs a home…bravo wherever they find it. Seriously. Go Charlize.
Ideal, however, would be to place a child in a home where he or she can absorb their historical, cultural experience authentically.
I worked in Russia for many years, back when they were allowing adoptions to Americans. On the plane rides back to the US there would be families with these Russian toddlers (had to get a white baby, of course) whose language they did not speak–even older kids with no English skills were being adopted out to people with no Russian skills.
This one family was complaining because their child wasn’t as great tempered as the adoption agent promised–like it was a dog or something. I got really crappy with them and spoke to the child in Russian (his ears were hurting) and then I asked as pointedly as I could (hoping it would make an impact) why they hadn’t bothered to learn more than “Hello” “Thank you” and “Good bye” in Russian before adopting a child from there.
They didn’t like me very much.
Also, as to culture, these kids were between 6 months and 8 years–all of them had Russian names that were being changed to “Megan” or “Rhianna”– it was ridiculous.
Allow a child to retain something of his or her past and hold it.
Bombshell!
Really didn’t see this coming, maybe it’s because I’m blinded by my jealous rage of she and Alexander ‘allegedly’ getting together.
*lol*
I felt exactly the same thing 😀
Congrats to her and Jackson . She is a wonderful actress and i know she will be a wonderful mother . Nothing but beautiful blessings for her and Jackson can`t wait to see him .
She can do no wrong in my book. Congrats!
Same here, she’s by far my favorite actress out there. I never understood why she gets bashed by some, seems like she just a private person.
My first thought was, “Uughh, not another Jackson :-/. How boring.”
Do you know many? I’ve never met a person with the first name Jackson. In fact I think the only one I know of is that lame actor from Twilight who no one cares about
It seems every boy between the ages of 6 mos and 6 years is named Jackson where I live. It is up there with Madison, Grace, Henry, and Ava.
Jackson has indeed become a popular name. I wanted to name my now 18-month-old son Jackson Blue (forgive me, but it sounded great with our last name and he does have marvelous blue eyes so it would have been great). My hubby hated it, so baby boy became Jack Logan. On a coincidental level, I also have a daughter named Riley Rose (she’s 5), a name that has been ‘stolen’ twice now by distant friends who thought I wouldn’t notice. lol
I went to high school with a guy named Jack, I didn’t know his true name was Jackson until the night we graduated from h.s. and that was way back in 1975!Most of the other guys at my school who went by Jack were really named John. And so it goes, everything old is new again.
His mama probably cares about him…maybe.
I know at least 6 or 7 little guys names Jackson. And several doggies! 😀
We picked an uncommon name for our son. Uncommon but not weird
Well done Charlize! And I love the baby name! Best wishes to both of you 🙂
Good for her – think Charlize will make a great mom. Congrats to momma and baby.
That’s awesome! Congrats to her and their family. I love the name Jackson too, I think it’s cute. Glad she managed to keep it quiet until she was ready to make the announcement too.
Even if she does have a bitchy reputation, I love her. I think she’s drop dead gorgeous, talented, and she’s a huge Arrested Development fan (and guest star).
They need to bring back Arrested Development already, how much longer do us fans have to wait? 🙁
New episodes air on Netflix in 2013…but yeah, it’s so far away! Can’t wait.
Congrats & blessings to mama & baby!
congrats to her. There are so many children in the world that need love and a home. I have been an early childhood teacher for 20 years and what is so wonderful about children, doesn’t matter what the color of their skin is, they love their parents unconditionally.
Nothing about the name of the baby? “Jackson Theron” doesn’t sound good… Hope they call him Jack – it works better. 🙂 and congratulations on the baby – wonderful news!
It sounds better when her last name is pronounced the South African way: tuh-RON. I giggle everytime I hear the Americanized version!
You’re right, it does hit the ear better.
So excited for her, think it’s really sweet. I have to agree with the notion that if you are a single woman wanting a child and able to care for it, who/what should stop you? Definitely admire her (and Sandra, and others) for this.
Stunningly beautiful, immensely talented, carries herself with grace, and lives a private life. What isn’t to adore about her?
Saw her episode of Top Chef recently as well as the outtakes, she’s hilarious and seems like a fun laid back person. I think she’d make a great mom (and good for her for adopting an American baby)
Me too! I’ve always thought she was beautiful and very talented, and in interviews she’s always seemed very intelligent and polite. Then I kept hearing on celebitchy that she was supposedly a nasty bitch. But she seemed so funny and charming on Top Chef. 🙂
That’s because Celebitchy is the only place that says she’s a bitch! Maybe outspoken and confident gets confused for Bitchy. It often does. Hate those She’s a Bitch comments.
I’ve never heard that she had diva-tude anywhere but here, either. When I read the line in the article “Now this should humanize her” I was confused.She doesn’t seem as unapproachable as, say, Angelina Jolie seems to be. And before the Stans lose their shiz, I’m not an Angie hater. I just feel she has an air of unapproachability.
Yup. I had never read anything negative about her until I started visiting celebitchy.
Lainey thinks she’s a bitch. But then it’s Lainey.
Having read several of her recent interviews, I don’t think it’s so much as bitchy as she seems quite the teasing type. Some people don’t know how to handle that and confuse it with being mean (which it can be, but …). I have quite a few friends and family members like that, so I don’t find it bitchy at all, it would be rather normal to me.
Wonderful news! Tons of congratulations to Ms. Theron and her mum!! Now Gerda is a grandma!!
Good for her, lucky little baby boy but being a single parent is tough even when you have all the money in the world.
According to Lainey she’s been trying to adopt for two years. I bet that had something to do with her breaking up with that grumpy troll Stuart Townsend.
My mom worked for Homeland Security which always is mixed with INS at One Federal Plaza in NYC and she said she saw Charlize come in there. My mom is a harsh critic being 70 I think she is alloted that right but back to my point. She said Charlize had to be one of the most beautiful women she had ever seen. She said she also came in there sans make up and in jeans and a t-shirt. She also saw Angelina and said she looks better in photos but unfortunately she is so thin that all she wanted to do was buy the girl about four burgers, double stack with bacon. One other person that I recollect she saw was Nicholas Cage, and she said he was the ugliest man she had ever seen — that I do not doubt.
Charlize theron is a natural beauty who of course should always look beautiful!
Many people have said Angelina Jolie looks MORE beautiful in real life than in pictures. I saw her from a distance in new york city many years ago and she was absolutely more stunning in person than in photoshopped magazine covers, although I admit I was like 30 feet away, so perhaps some flaws were hidden lol.
It’s funny that Angie is brought up in this thread about Charlize adopting. Your mother is the only person I’ve ever heard described Angie that way it’s almost always the opposite. She looks better in person and that photos dont do her reall life beauty justice. She’s thin but not emaciated. So you’re right she’s a harsh critic and must look like Sophia Loren to be so critical. Congrats to Charlize and as an American I couldn’t care less if she adopted here or abroad. Just that a baby will have a loving home.
I think with my mom, and from what I recall, was that it was right around the time Angie’s mom passed away and she was at her thinnest. So I think my mom was more drawn to her thinness then her face. I am just guessing here, that Angie may have been looking a little under the weather because hey, her mom just passed away. The reason I mention Angie and Charlize in the same post is that they came within a week of each other there, and a lot of adoption interviews, paperwork, go through the NYC Federal Plaza building.
@Rux
That’s what I took your mom’s comment on AJ to mean, that she thought she looked too thin, and so that’s what she commented on. She(your mom)is a “mom” after all, my mom would feed the world if she could! LOL!
Good for her. Congrats. Can’t wait to see him.
I’m not sure what definition of genocide you’re using, but as a South African I hardly think that’s an accurate characterization of SA. Violent crime, sure, although not nearly in the proportions the international press would have you believe, and I’m pretty sure she’ll give that little boy a wonderful, advantaged life whatever country she chooses to raise him in.
Well said, I don’t like generalizations of places based solely on the media. They have not exactly been none for accuracy.
Please don’t bash me but I don’t get all of the congratulations about the fact that she adopted an American baby. She is first and foremost South African and we have one of the highest HIV/AIDS rates in the world and a heartbreaking number of orphans as a direct result. Beyond this, the infrasturcture to care for these children is nothing compared to what exists in the States and there is a miserably small pool of people with the means to adopt compared to the need. I honestly don’t care where she adopted from, I think the act in and of itself is wonderful. But this is one case where pro-America is a little out of place.
Also, it is my understanding that many people adopt from other countries because of problems they run into when trying to adopt in the States…
Edited to thank Kaiser for removing the genocide comment!! SA is not Sudan!
I applaud anyone who adopts a baby/toddler from anywhere, the U.S. or overseas, and race never being a factor.
Some people feel its their right to tell others where to adopt. Sometimes this America First that they come up with is just a way to bash others for going to different countries.
Well said Mich.
Humanize her? No…that wasn’t my first thought. “Aww” was. Then second was…OMG, Charlize is a mommy! Third was…OMG, a baby & Skarsgard…woman is blessed.
Congrats!
I never understood why they had to complicate things and changed being black to African American, it’s so stupid. Anyway good for Charlize, she wanted a baby and got one, that’s one lucky baby. With such a beautiful mother I can only imagine what high standards that boy will have when he starts dating.
I’m hot and cold on Charlize. I think she’s a bit crass and tacky sometimes, but other times she seems fun. Anyway, congrats to her and I bet the boy is a little cutie.
I had a brutally awful boss who had her highlights done by Charlize’s colorist. It was exactly, to the strand and the base shade, the same as CT’s in these pics. Gorgeous, with flashes of PTSD.
Wow!!! This really confirms my opinion of her. Someone of substance. Congrats many times over.
That’s wonderful news. Does anyone know how old the baby was when she adopted him?
Wow, talk about a surprise! Good for her. Congrats on the new little family.
Congrats to her !
I have a question though, in Western Europe, many people who adopt? adopt outside their country (Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe) for various reasonS, one of which the shortage of national children to be adopted versus the higher demand.
What i don’t understand, how come there are so many US born children to be adopted in the US ? How come there are numerous of them in the first place, how come that they are a sizeable amount of US citizens who have children they abandonned or are taken away from them for whatever reasons compared to their european or japanese counterparts for example ?
This always strikeS me when a developped country has so many children in foster care or orphanages.
Good point, I don’t know the answer, I’m from the UK. However, it seems access to birth control and abortion is more difficult in the US, perhaps leading to a larger number of unwanted babies being put up for adoption.
Here come the crows feet and laugh lines–your children will make you smile and put wrinkles on your face whether you like it or not. I hope she enjoys their new life together!
I wonder if she chose the name “Jackson.” I swear every person I know who has had a baby in the past 5 years has named their baby boys “Jackson.”
I’m so tired of the “Glad she adopted in America” comments. A kid is a kid no matter where they are from.
Yep.
I’m tired of it to. I’m also tired of people who feel its their right to suggest as to where somebody should adopt their child from.
Adoption is great, no matter where you do it from. Congrats to Charlize!
I will say, at the risk of getting flamed royally, that I would be extremely hesitant to adopt a non-newborn, older baby/toddler from Russia or anyplace where the kids are in orphanages and never get love and affection. I’d be very afraid of attachment disorder, to say the least.
As for adopting American, whatever. I like BUYING American made, if I can find it, but babies aren’t contributing to the trade deficit, ha ha.
@ WTF: You speak with such authority, yet you have none. I call myself black for various reasons that are actually none of your business. But thanks.
Good for her to adopt locally. I think she is going to make a great Mom! Congrats to her!
I don’t get the label African American. If you are born in the US then you are an American, no matter what color you are.
Some people like to wear their ethnicity like a badge of honor. I don’t really get it since I don’t think I had a say in my ethnicity and neither did you but some people like that.
My best friend’s niece LOVES to regale people with how Irish she is. Well her last name is Irish and her grandfather was Irish (not sure if he ever officially became an American) but she is Irish, Maltese, English and German bu t because she has an Irish last name she walks around being “Irish-American”.
And no she is not a cute little redhead or a gorgeous lithe black haired blue eyed maiden. Yes, this girl makes me laugh.
Because of America’s LONG history of segregation and jim crow laws it is NOT that easy. Yes my family has built this country, fought in wars, paid taxes but until the 60’s the general consensus is that blacks where NOT American. We have gone from being 3/5ths of a person to person to negro to black to African American….it takes time however it will be slow.
I haven’t liked her since I read an interview a few years ago where she said she did not want to get pregnant because she didn’t want to look like a whale – her word, not mine.
Why don’t these women ever adopt white babies? Are there not poor white babies in America? Black people represent less than 20% of the population yes?
Don’t even front. You know its weird.
LOL
Gee, that was racist and classist – just because a white woman (or any woman) is poor she is going to automatically give her baby up for adoption? And just because a woman is white she can’t love a black baby?
However your attitude is common and that is why “these women” cannot adopt a white baby. Healthy white babies are popular and are likely to go to couples. “These women” are single mothers, regardless of fame or the size of the bank account children’s services prefers to adopt out a child to a couple. Single mothers don’t get first choice.
I for one am happy to hear that anyone – rich, poor, male, female, single, married, gay, straight, black, white whatever is adopting American babies.
I’m “ist” too and I am sick of people adopting all these foreign kids when there are babies and children for those people who are willing to take an older child in this country that need a home.
I’m also sick of those other single moms who insist on having a white child and bring home a mentally ill Russian kid and then can’t handle it and send it back or try to.
If they REALLY wanted to be a mom they could have done what Charlize and Sandra did and taken a non-traumatized American baby home so what if the baby is Cablanasian (whatever Tiger said he was before he turned out to be an a-hole).
I’m not saying I don’t feel bad for those Russian kids, I do. The situation is far from their fault. They are usually mentally ill due to how badly they have been treated in the Russian system but those women bring them over here to be a burden when there are healthy American kids who need a home that just don’t look like their ideal.
Thanks for the thoughtful post.
I didn’t mean to come off so ignorant about it.
I’m just saying that its so Hollywood to choose a baby outside of your race.
I don’t know how adoption works and I love that all of these children are being placed with women who have the time and the money to rear them with love, even if it is in a weird fishbowl.
I know that not only poor women give up children for adoption and I’m not a racist.
Again, I do appreciate the thoughtful comments.
I’m tired of ignorant people like you who feel you have the right to be annoyed or tired of people going overseas to adopt. How dare you stomp on somebody else’s decision! I think any criticism of one’s personal choice is a true sign of arrogance & ignorance!
FeverDream, it’s not just HW, it simply is easier to adopt non-white (and older)American children, or have overseas adoptions, or both, than it is to adopt white American infants.
Why? Numbers, but also the status of the adopting parent(s):age, marital status, etc.
I’ve had co-workers and friends do the older and overseas adoptions in part because it was very hard otherwise. And since they didn’t care about race or age, that’s the way they went.
Congratulations to her!! I think it’s great that she adopted a baby, no matter where he is from!
I love the name Jackson. It is my son’s name. And yes, it’s very popular. It was number 2 on the top ten list last year. I didn’t do any research just liked the name from Sons of Anarchy and it went well with my daughter’s name: Addison. After I named him I had several people tell me they knew someone with a baby that has the same name.
At my 6 week check up I found out my nurse’s grandbabies were the same age, with the same names as my children. The girl even had the same middle name, Claire.
And we know a couple that is having boy/girl twins and will name their kids Addison and Jackson.
But you know what, I don’t care. I love their names.
I love Charlize. She, SMG, Angelina, and Gisele are the only bitcas from another mother that I will stan for. I think she is so beautiful amongst a sea of average looking people in Hollywood.
Congrats Charlize. South Fafricann, American, or whatev, I love you.