Adoptive parents better than biological ones in child rearing? Ms Tomb Raider thinks so.

OK – this just irks me – I really try hard to be positive on Erik’s blog – but whenever I read something like this – it really pisses me off.

Angelina Jolie believes adoptive parents better than biological ones in child rearing. "It should be hard to be a parent period. I go through many things to adopt. I'm finger-printed, I'm checked, I go through home studies. I have to prove I'm a decent citizen; a good human being." "That didn't happen to me when I gave birth, so it's interesting that there's no background check when you bring a child into your home in that way," she added.

Does this woman actually believe this bull crap? Ok let’s analyze the positive roles she puts forward to table as being a better parent than say us poor biological sods.

• Kisses her grown up brother a giant smacker right on national tv.


• Gets married to groom number 1 Jonny Lee Miller and then leaves Billy Bob – keeps his blood in little vials – I wonder what the message is out here.


• Steals someone else’s husband. OK she may have not caused all of that to you women – but hey she was part of the equation
• She has one awesome relationship with her Dad (being sarcastic out here)
• Then adopts a child from Cambodia (Maddox), a baby from Ethiopia and names her Zahara and then has a baby Shilloh with Pitt

Seriously – this woman is busy flying around the world, making a crap load of money – has time to do UN work – wow she must be an amazing mother. Now I just have Erik – both Tabitha and I (and all our countless friends) all over the world are doing the best as biological parents – you know the type – work hard to make a living (you know real work – unfortunately we don’t have the time to work miracles with the UN) – come home and take care of the kids and try and spend every godly hours making sure our babies are getting all the care and attention that is humanely possible. Worry about his future – his education his well being and whether or not we are doing enough for our dearest son. Now – with one baby we have our hands pretty full. Work, take care of baby (feeding, bathing, playing – reading) through it all.

This woman says that an adoptive parent is better than a biological parent… I seriously beg to differ. I am sorry I don’t have a gazillion dollars to have nannies around the clock taking care of my son – but I do take him to day care and believe me I hate leaving him there – if we had the means (this includes all the families I know) we would give up work in a heartbeat and spend our times with our babies. We cannot be like Ms Jolie who says "Brad and I talk a lot about who's going to work and when and making sure we don't miss this time in our life with our kids. I worked maybe two months in the last two years and I'm fine with it."

Well there is one thing we agree upon – but hey we don’t have the means so I guess that makes her a better parent.

I guess in the end we will see if we are better parents or Ms Jolie. But seriously who give a rat patootie. – the judge as to who is a better parents will be our children – and whether we gave them the best life possible filled with love and care to the best of our ability.