Madonna is the pop star known as "the Material Girl.".(The Week)(Brief article)

Madonna is the pop star known as "the Material Girl." But she has other values than materialism. She has two biological children and one son adopted from Malawi. She has sought to adopt a second child from Malawi--not a spanking-new infant but a four-year-old girl who lives in an orphanage. The older the child, the less attractive it is to would-be adoptive parents, usually. A Malawian court has denied Madonna's second adoption. It said that Madonna did not meet some requirement. Much of the world applauded--the same part of the world that had jeered Madonna's ...