Sheryl Crow adopted a baby boy!
 

This was posted on her website:

Hey Everybody,

I am so excited to share with you guys that I've adopted a little boy... he was born 2 weeks ago.

His name is Wyatt (after my dad) Steven (after my little brother and Scooter) and we are enjoying some very private family time.

Just wanted you to be the first to know.

Lots of love,
Sheryl.



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Congrats to Sheryl! :)

Good for her! :thumbsup:

That is very cool...

rbs

I dig Sheryl.
I love her music.
I think she's hot.
Good for her for fulfilling her need to raise a child.
She has the means to give this little boy everything money can buy.
Um, except a father.

On that count, I have to say, poor little boy.
:distress:

would you feel differently if she had adopted a girl?

hopefully there will be someone in his life who will act as a paternal figure, but he'll probably have a better life with sheryl than he will in foster care. :shrug:

Maybe a bit. But not that much.

Perhaps there will be. Or perhaps not.

Better than foster care? Yeah. Better than being left in a box in an alley too.

Point being...


:shrug:

cool. i was just curious.

my point is just that there are too many babies and not enough people willing to care for them. so if someone is willing and able to take care of a child, that is a valuable thing, even if it's not the ideal setup.

I respect that point. It is better than no home or some fukced up insitutional bounce job.

Still a bit of a bummer to me though.

If you have such a strong opinion on adoption, I would love to know what you think about artificial insemination :D

i can dig that. maybe i place less value on the importance of a father figure because i was raised without one.

oh ****. don't get me started. :laugh:

I have some pretty strong opinions on it myself :laugh:

last time i brought it up a breeder got really mad at me. :laugh:

lol @ breeder. Heterophobe :laugh:

I doubt you would.

Could be. I don't think they're replacable or irrelevant.
People don't die without them, but I think kids need Dads.
Boys especially.

:laugh:

not a heterophobe - that goes for anyone who procreates, including lesbians with their turkey basters ;)

you're probably right. in our society, tho, fathers are hot commodities.

Too right. No penis, no vagina, then no babies :shrug:

Same. Though I was raised without a mother. I turned out okay. :shrug:

no, now you have to depend on cronyism to determine your self-worth. :laugh:

oh wait, so do i.

we've both lost our way :distress:

You sound surprised. :laugh:

Seriously though, I understand tradition and all, but in this day and age it's getting to be almost common that children get raised by one parent. They don't automatically turn into little Ted Bundys or Hannibal Lecters because of that.

Thats debatable :p

Yes, little ****, I was going to add 'depends on who you ask', but I figured that was too obvious. :laugh:

Why is everybody here at this hour? Usually I am allll alone when I get up.

:laugh: :thumbsup:

Well, its only 10 pm in NZ - and I don't usually go online at this time, even though its most convenient for me, because nobody is ever here. However, I happened to check, and Carrie was online - so I stayed.

i know, when i saw you were up, i knew it had to be really, really late. and it is. it's after 6 am here. ugh.

you are obsessed with me.

:lol:

it never gets old.

Makes sense. Carrie either got up to take a walk in the morning dew, or she took some XTC.

:laugh: neither, although at this point i may just stay up!

Who cares, it's Saturday, live a little. :wavey: I have to go to work in about an hour. :mad:

****er :laugh:

hang on, let me pull another one out of the vault ...

ever since i stole your man, you are such a little beeyotch!

:lol:

Im glad you are enjoying yourself - like your 100% gayness... :laugh:

I'm going to leave you ****ers and obsessors of gay people aka heterophobes to put in 5 miles on my hometrainer. Toodles! :wavey:

have fun!

-the resident heterophobe

Same here. :thumbsup:

back to sheryl.... here's what i was wondering. did she adopt a healthy, newborn, caucasian boy?

i hate to be crass, but those are hard to come by for regular everyday non-celebrity white folks. especially single ones.

i'm just saying.

I am so happy for her. Congratulations to Sheryl. I hope we get to see some pictures of her and the little tyke soon. :)

I believe she has a brother and her father is still alive. I doubt the child will lack a strong male influence in his life. I would much rather see it that way than in some dysfunctional parental relationship where the parents are together for the sake of the children.
It always slays me when people who don't even have children think they know how to write the book on how to raise them. :rolleyes:

Ha! That one's a keeper.

Uncles and Grandparents aren't fathers.
It's always easy to compare anything to a horror story to make it look good, re: the dysfunctional parent schtick. I mean, I'd sure rather have a broken arm than 2 broken arms, and a tumor. So, I can survive a broken arm.
Broken arm, not so bad:lol:

I don't have children, no. But I was a little boy at one time. And I wouldn't have traded my Dad for 6 rich and famous mothers and all the extended family in the world. Being a parent...no experience. Having a dad, I did that for 32 years. Please, find me a man who will say his father was unimportant, and taught him things anyone could have. And no, guys with ****ty male parents who were drunks or abusers don't count.

It is just supremely ironic to me that she can give a kid every material thing on earth, but the one thing I think was most valuable to me as a kid, she didn't bother to do. The world is a funny place.

Let's hope that Sheryl doesn't turn into Joan Crawford just because the kid uses too much toilet paper.:laugh:

OMG. :blob2:

Keep the wire hangers outta the solar powered house too.

No. More. Incandescent. Bulbs. EVERRRRRR!