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Adopted Children
Approximately 120,000 children are adopted each year in the United States.
Children with :
physical
developmental
emotional handicaps
Adoption helps many of these children to grow up in
permanent families rather than in foster homes or
institutions.
Madonna
Mariska Hargitay
o Hargitay had her first son with her husband Peter Hermann in 2006 in
an emergency cesarean section. In April 2011, they adopted a daughter,
Amaya Josephine, and were there at her birth. Later that year, they
adopted a boy, Andrew, who had been born earlier in the year.
Sharon Stone
After marrying Phil Bronstein in 1998, the couple adopted a baby boy,
Roan Joseph, in 2000.
After they divorced, Bronstein was granted primary custody and Stone was
given visitation rights.
In 2005, Stone adopted her second son, Laird Vonne, and then her third son,
Quinn Kelly, in 2006.
Meg Ryan
o Meg already has a child with Dennis Quaid, Jack Henry Quaid who played
Marvel in The Hunger Games, but she later adopted a daughter. She adopted a
14-month-old girl from China named Daisy True.
Calista Flockhart
In September of 2007,
Parker adopted a baby
girl from Africa
Sandra Bullock
Jolie adopted her first child, Maddox Chivian in 2002 (Brad legally
adopted him in 2006) from Cambodia, while she was still with her exhusband Billy Bob Thornton, but adopted Maddox as a single parent.
In 2005 Jolie adopted Zahara Marley from Ethopia, with Pitt
accompanying her. Later that year it was rumored that Pitt planned on
adopting both children, and in 2006 Jolie legally moved to change both
Maddox and Zaharas last names to Jolie-Pitt.
In 2007 Jolie adopted her son Pax Thien as a single parent (per
Vietnamese rules about unmarried couples adopting children) and Pitt
later adopted Pax.