Angelina Jolie, Calista Flockhart, Sharon Stone, Michelle Pfeiffer andNicole Kidman are all well-publicised Hollywood adopters.
When it comes to press coverage, though, the focus on celebrityadoptions is "obsessive and unrelenting", says Lawrence. She points outhow press photographs of Billie, the daughter of Dawn French and LennyHenry, always come with the words "their adopted daughter".
Lawrence says no editor would dream of printing a caption that read"their diabetic daughter" or "their insufferable son", whether factuallycorrect or not. It would, she says, "be deemed inappropriately intrusiveand rude". Quite.
- "Children never had it so good", was the headline in The Times.Researchers have discovered that in the 1970s, children "were typicallyleft to spend their time outdoors with friends in unstructured play, andto get to and from school by themselves."
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