11:29 am - 05/09/2008
Ashton Kutcher recently revealed that he has long been contemplating adoption and that someday he will expand his family.
The 30-year-old is stepfather to Rumer, 19, Scout, 16, and Tallulah, 14 - Demi’s daughters with Bruce Willis - and the actor insists he dreams of “someday” expanding their brood with children of his own. But the Hollywood heartthrob admits he hasn’t ruled out adoption, since he has always been drawn to the idea of taking in an orphaned child.
He says, “I have thought about adopting a kid my whole life. When I was eight I had a friend called Terry and one day he told me he was adopted.
“He said his parents told him there was a more special bond between them because they picked him. I thought that was pretty profound and I would be open to the idea.”
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Ashton and Demi’s Adoption Plans
Ashton Kutcher recently revealed that he has long been contemplating adoption and that someday he will expand his family.
The 30-year-old is stepfather to Rumer, 19, Scout, 16, and Tallulah, 14 - Demi’s daughters with Bruce Willis - and the actor insists he dreams of “someday” expanding their brood with children of his own. But the Hollywood heartthrob admits he hasn’t ruled out adoption, since he has always been drawn to the idea of taking in an orphaned child.
He says, “I have thought about adopting a kid my whole life. When I was eight I had a friend called Terry and one day he told me he was adopted.
“He said his parents told him there was a more special bond between them because they picked him. I thought that was pretty profound and I would be open to the idea.”
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brb listening to carrie the rest of the day
Not to mention, we only hear about international adoptions so often because of the celebrities who participate in them. Do you know how hard it is to get a healthy, white baby in the United States? My parents had to wait 10 years, and that was in the 70's-80s. Only about 1 in 7 adoptions within the U.S. are international adoptions. For many of these children, their home countries simply cannot take care of them. I believe that for nations and families who have the resources, it is selfish to limit yourself to domestic adoptions when so many children internationally are suffering and have nobody to help them. However, I do acknowledge that families also need to look to handicapped children, minority children, older children, etc. when it comes to adoption, if they're choosing to look domestically. But many don't, which is why I support international adoption moreso. Better to adopt a starving Vietnamese kid than some white baby who, tbh, is going to get adopted anyways.
i think they genuinely like each other a lot, so good for future kids
more neglect for rumer and talluah
how drunk would a person have to be to name their child 'scout'? not much, right?
It was also weird on season 3 of Project Runway when they did the dogs and Kate (my name) picked out a dog named Tallulah. My face looked like :O
Way to be olld to be acting like some amateur professional child on PUNK'D. Doofus.
He sounds like he's talking about a dog. What a douche.
The bond between parents and their biological children just can't equal the ~*~*~*~*~SPECIALNESS~*~*~*~*~*
Not to mention that many many many times International adoptions end in a disruption and children adopted domestically have the same loss and separation issues. Sometimes even more if they are consciously exposed to their culture and then they loose it.
oh well, it's a shitty situation no matter what, you've got white people who either want a lily white "pure" baby only or the ones who want an awesome photo op, then you've got the foster parents totally in it for the government checks and benefits-it's all just damn sad.