Madonna's recently announced divorce from Guy Ritchie has foiled her plans to adopt another Malawi child, so says the country’s Child Welfare Services director who says the child can't go into a broken family. The singer has wanted to adopt a girl, Mercy James, who she was introduced to during an orphanage visit in 2006.
But Malawian official Penston Kilembe says the split with Guy, means the adoption cannot be approved. ‘One fundamental condition in scrutinizing adoptions is the connectedness of a family,’ he says.
‘We can’t approve a child to go into a broken family because the divorce could be the result of the behavior of the party trying to adopt. Madonna should forget this one.’
Madge, 50, adopted David Banda, 3, from Malawi last year but the official says that adoption is out of his hands. ‘His future will be decided by the British courts, who determine issues of custody,’ he says. ‘He is no longer our responsibility.’
