{"id":1741,"date":"2009-06-24T08:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T08:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/79.170.44.80\/livingwithkids.co.uk\/maternal-instinct\/"},"modified":"2018-02-20T13:58:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T13:58:00","slug":"maternal-instinct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/maternal-instinct\/","title":{"rendered":"Maternal instinct"},"content":{"rendered":"The other day one of my friends was talking about how she would like\u00a0another baby – a brother or sister for her three boys. ‘Why don’t you adopt?’ asked\u00a0another friend, a mum of two who works in social services. ‘There are so many needy children out there who need homes, it’s heartbreaking.’\r\n\r\nShe’s right, of course, and when you’re a mum you do feel guilty that your child should have so much love and security when other children have nothing.\r\n\r\nThat’s why I can, in a way, understand Madonna’s urge to adopt Mercy James. When you’re so rich it must feel natural to want to spread the wealth.\r\n\r\nTwo of my friends were adopted because their birth parents were unfit\/unwilling to care for them, and they’ve definitely had much better lives as a result.\r\n\r\nBut I’m growing increasingly uncomfortable with the way the adoption has been handled. Someone as powerful as Madonna could\u00a0surely adopt in private, as the actor Ewan McGregor did a few years ago. And I’d also like to know why it wasn’t possible for Madonna to go and and bring Mercy back to the UK\u00a0herself\u00a0– reportedly\u00a0sending a nanny and an entourage of staff.\r\n\r\nA few years ago another Hollywood A-lister, the actress Jamie Lee Curtis, an adoptive mum of two,\u00a0wrote the children’s book ‘Tell Me Again About The Night I Was Born’ (available from Waterstones<\/a>). 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