If things weren't complicated enough, today brings a new twist in the Madonna adoption have gotten even more interesting. The biological father of the Malawian toddler that Madonna plans to adopt has come forward saying that he did not clearly understand that he was giving up the child forever. "Our understanding was that they [Madonna and British filmmaker, Guy Ritchie] would educate and take care of our son just as they were doing at the orphanage," said the boy's father Yohane Banda.
Banda claims that he was told by the Director Child Welfare Services and the Director of the Home Orphange Centre where Baby David was living that, "when David grows up he will return back home to his village." He claims that he was not told or did not understand that the adoption would be permanent.
"If we were told that she wants to take the baby as her own we could we could not have consented because I see no reason why I should give away my son," Banda says.
"Our understanding as family is that David is still part and parcel of our clan, " says the father's cousin. "After the good woman nurtures and educates him, he will return back."
"I look forward to telling my grandson how destitute he was after losing his mum at the tender age of three weeks, how we surrendered him to the oprhanage and how this good woman took him away," says Mwale.
The family says that the do not want Baby David to be returned to the orphange, but want their position clarified.
"We are still thankful Madonna has rescued him from poverty and disease: we pray for the good Lord to keep blessing her for her benevelence," says Banda.
Source: US Weekly
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