Madonna is headed to Malawi for a second adoption (see links below) and you know what? I'm thinking we need celebrity adoptions more than ever.

Many people are disgusted by the attention celebrities get for adopting. They cite the special privileges stars receive, and balk at the money they throw to grease the wheels.

When it comes to international adoption, people tend to focus on the wrong thing-and you don't even have to be a celebrity. You're an angel for crossing eleven time zones to start a family, or an opportunist feeding your own ego. You're a saint for rescuing someone, and out of your mind at the same time.

Many adoptive parents, at one time or another, embark on unsuccessful public service campaigns of explaining to friends and family, teachers, coaches and physicians that international adoption is not better or worse than having biological children (or no children at all), it's just different. Talk to enough adoptive parents (international, domestic) and you'll meet moms and dads across the United States who have done exactly the same with paltry results. We are powerless over the problem because we're, for the most part, middle-class moms (and dads), not celebrity mamas (and papas). Almost nine years after bringing our kids home people still want to know what happened to their real family, and how I could possibly feel like a mom if I didn't raise them since birth.