Papa Don't Preach...I'm Keeping YOUR Baby

Madonna seems to have been bit by the Brangelina Bug -- in so much as she's taken to adopting children from third-world countries. But, with one -- glaring -- difference: The children Angie adopted (and Brad later followed legally became their father) were orphaned. Madonna, on the other hand, decided she found a baby she liked and figured she'd take it home with her... never mind the fact that the kid had a father.

The father of the Malawian child pop star Madonna wants to adopt said on Sunday he had not originally planned to give up his son for good when he handed him to an orphanage after the death of his wife last year....he put his son David in an orphanage when he was just over one month old, fearing that he was ill with malaria, which killed his two other sons. "I suppose deep in my heart I always imagined that when he was better, or I had got another wife, I would go and take him back," Banda told the Mail on Sunday. "I did not think anyone would want to take him away." But Banda, 31, said he and his family had agreed to allow Madonna and her husband Guy Ritchie to adopt the child, believing it would give him the chance to receive a good education and grow up healthy....

Malawi's High Court granted the 48-year-old entertainer and her filmmaker husband an interim order allowing them to take custody of the boy less than a week ago but the adoption plan has sparked anger in Malawi and elsewhere. Malawian law prohibits adoptions by non-residents, but officials granted an exemption or waiver to Madonna. Human rights groups are challenging that decision and plan to seek a court injunction on Monday to stop the adoption. [reuters]

I guess the Material Girl figures she can have just about anything she wants.