Britney Spears To Adopt From China!

Yup. Twin six year old boys.
If you believe everything you read.

I really just want to be a part of spreading this rumor as early as possible. I think I'm actually pretty late in the game, as I picked up on it from another blogger I read, and then saw it on a China adoption discussion forum already. So, the first "news" of this showed up HERE. Now if you search Google News for Britney Spears Adoption there are dozens of hits. It's amazing how the news industry works. These articles are all about a rumor that appeared in an online gossip column. There is no verification of the story, just Britney's name in a column with an outrageous claim, and off it goes!

The disconcerting part of it for me is the way it colors how uninformed readers of this "news" view international adoption. My experience leaves me very skeptical that Britney would be eligible in any way. China just instated a whole new set of stricter rules and requirements for prospective adoptive parents. Heck she doesn't even make the age cut-off under the older more lenient rules. You have to be 30, she's only 25. And under the new rules you have to be married at least 5 years. So how could this be possible? But let's say it was, wouldn't you love to read the home-study her social worker wrote?