No, I don't really think about Madonna much if at all but I heard the usual conversation about her adoption today the one that goes something like "black children should be adopted by black people, social services don't like that and so on".
Yes, social services always know best. But is race that important? Besides the argument I've heard many times that white people don't know how to comb black children's hair. I can see that being adopted by a family of the same background might help but besides the obvious does it really happen? How can you tell which family is the best for a little baby?
(I have a friend who was adopted. He is white and was adopted by a white family. But he is very artistic and very much into music while the family he lived with were not into music or art or even books. They were good to him but he felt he never belonged, he was not very happy with them. When he was in his early twenties he tracked down his biological mother who, surprise surprise, turned out to be an artist.)
Therefore I wonder whether race is really such an important factor or there are maybe many other factors that cannot be foreseen and a happy adoption is just something that can happen no matter what the experts say or do. Maybe anything to do with human bonding and relationships does not answer to any set rules.
