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My husband and I are long-time and seasoned international adopters (5 kids from 4 countries). Here is my problem with Ms. Jolie: when she adopted her Cambodian son, there was a moratorium--imposed by the US, not Cambodia--on adoptions from that country. For several years, Americans were unable to get children out of Cambodia, even if they'd been assigned the children and had already been over to meet them. Several local couples' children were trapped in Cambodia.
Angelina Jolie waltzed into Cambodia and waltzed right out with a child. This is not some urban legend; I heard it repeated several times by angry agencies and parents (I was working for an agency at the time) who were there and saw it happen. Nobody ever really knew who greased the wheels so that she alone could adopt a child and this was at that time when she was doing real weird stuff like wearing a vial of her husband's blood around her neck. In addition, there were already rumors of her marriage beginning to falter, and yet SHE got a child?
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