Last year, I wrote a story about how Angelina Jolie was involving her kids in some of her humanitarian work. Within the span of a few weeks, she had taken Pax in Namibia to check in on the conservation work being done with the charitable foundation she and Brad had set up in the country. Then she took Shiloh to a refugee camp in Lebanon just days later. It’s worth going back and reading that story – Angelina told People Mag that she talks to her kids about her UNHCR work and conservation work around the world. She tells her kids about the refugee children she meets, and Angelina said that Shiloh specifically asked to go to the refugee camp in Lebanon to meet the refugee kids. At the time, I described it as Angelina being a good mom – she was exposing her privileged Hollywood children to a bigger world and she was there to help give them context in real time.

That wasn’t the first time Angelina included her kids in her work – over the years, she taken Maddox to see Iraqi refugees, she’s taken Zahara to see the International Criminal Court and much more. All of her kids have charities set up in their names, set up in various countries, and Angelina has often taken her kids to see the work being done by those charities. And according to sources close to Brad Pitt, that makes Jolie a terrible mother and Brad is a saint because he never wanted his kids to meet refugees.

Angelina Jolie is so obsessed with becoming the head of the United Nations … it caused major marital issues with Brad Pitt. Sources close to the couple tell us … Brad became increasingly upset over Angelina’s political ambitions … we’re told her dream is to become the top UN official … she was never specific. Toward that end, we’re told she has 2 political advisers and a “war room” to help with decisions and image.

Brad, we’re told, was especially upset that Angelina had taken the kids to various war-torn countries, including Lebanon and Iraq. We’re told Angelina would always make sure to bring a security team that was the best of the best on her trips … but for Brad, it still wasn’t enough. We’re told things got extremely tense when Brad and Angie argued over taking the kids to Syria to help rebuild the war torn country. Our sources say Brad was always supportive of Jolie’s solo charity work, but travels with the kids became a bone of contention for several years.

[From TMZ]

Ugh. The whole “Angelina has UN ambitions, therefore is a terrible mom” thing is bugging me for a lot of different reasons. For years now, Angelina has cared less and less about Hollywood. For years now, her biggest focus has been on her activism and advocacy work. And for years now, she’s included her kids in that work and I strongly believe that the kids are going to be better, more well-adjusted people because of it. Like, why is it a bad thing that Shiloh spent time with refugee children? Why is it a bad thing to expose kids to the larger world?

And in case you couldn’t tell, sources close to Brad are telling TMZ that he will “fight for joint physical custody” of the kids. Yeah. And apparently his first order of duty is villainizing Angelina for wanting to shift away from Hollywood and go full-time humanitarian.

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