In a time of so much suffering from poverty, war, and disease, it is amazing that people who try to help others are publicly criticized. International adoption has suffered from such criticism in recent years. In America and Western Europe, families have been adopting children to help less advantaged people in Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe for decades yet there are some who claim that international adoption is wrong no matter what the reasons and circumstances. Madonna's adoption of a little from Malawi is a perfect example of this blind criticism