A statement of love
Undue criticism: At least Sheryl Crow adopts American
Sheryl Crow has had some 'splainin to do. After a few random Internet commenters published opinions that Crow adopts babies to drum up publicity, the singer understandably lashed out. She told Britain's Daily Mail:
"I don’t usually read what people blog about me but I’ve read some beautiful things about me and adoption and some hateful things. I think people don’t understand — it’s not like you can go to some outlet and pick up a baby because you’ve got a record to promote. An adoptive mother goes through more hoops than those people who thoughtlessly become pregnant. I had about 10 adoptions fall through last year, so there was a real sense of relief when he (Levi) was mine. It’s a long process and it’s fraught with uncertainty. Another person is carrying a baby and when that baby finally arrives their feelings may have changed.”
Detractors had argued that the announcement that she adopted her second son, Levi, came too close to the release of her new record, 100 Miles from Memphis. But is it more likely that she assumed responsibility for a life to promote a record, or that she announced the adoption when she already had reason to address the public?
Of all the adoptive parents in Hollywood to attack, why are we picking on Crow, exactly? She's a 48-year-old single woman. If she wants a child, what avenue would her critics suggest?
Maybe this view is unpopular, but at least she's adopting an American child in need (cue the gasps) as opposed to, say, throwing her celebrity around in a third world country to expand her family expeditiously or spending fortunes to conceive her own kid when she could give opportunity to an existing one.
My only question is why she's even dignifying such preposterous accusations with a response. That, if anything, is the ploy for publicity.
