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Angelina begs Pax's birth mum: Please don't take my boy

SOPHIE NEVILLE
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Angelina begs Pax's birth mum: Please don't take my boy
Pax's biological mum Pham Thu Dung.
Pax's biological mum Pham Thu Dung.
“My dream is that one day he’ll visit me and call me mother,” Pham Thu Dung said.
 
SOPHIE NEVILLE

The actress breaks down as Pax’s biological mother asks for his return.

Dwarfed by the two oversized teddy bears they were carrying, Zahara and Shiloh Jolie-Pitt giggled and stumbled their way through LA airport last week. But their superstar mother couldn’t even crack a smile. Angelina Jolie looked tense and exhausted after their flight from Amsterdam. Now Woman’s Day can reveal it wasn’t the long-haul journey with two young children that had the mum-of-six seemingly shattered.

We’re told Ange is battling a private nightmare over fears she could lose her adopted son Pax, with a source close to the family claiming she’s been “knocked for six” by a request from the eight-year-old’s Vietnamese biological mother, via the orphanage he came from, to meet him.

“Angelina is in a total spin about this,” the insider reveals. “She is torn about what the right thing to do is. She has always felt slightly insecure about Pax and this is just making matters worse. She’s terrified he’ll choose his birth family over her.”

Pham Thu Dung, 32 – who says she’s clean of the heroin addiction that saw Pax placed in an orphanage – has told authorities she wants Brad, 48, and Ange, 36, to bring the boy to Vietnam to spend time with her and his extended family. “Dung says it’s important Pax knows where he comes from and is aware of his heritage,” a Vietnamese source says. “She is desperate to meet her son after only seeing pictures of him in magazines.” “My dream is that one day he’ll visit me and call me mother,” Dung herself says.

Read more about Pax's biological mum and why she wants him back in this week’s Woman’s Day on sale Monday March 26, 2012.



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Angelina and Brad need to thoroughly investigate the situation for legitimacy (I smell an extortion plan brewing) and also evaluate their son to make sure it is in his best interest to have this reunion at this time or not. It is NOT about what is best for this birthmother or what she wants (personally, I think she is being very selfish to reach out to Pax and his family now. It should be pax's decision when he is old enough to fully comprehend it all whether or not to make contact with her and no one else's. I know it may seem harsh to suspect that this woman may not have the best intentions in seeking Pax out, but it would not be the 1st time something like this has happened. I happens all the time to families of children from Vietnam & China. Don't get me wrong, I do hope that my daughter from Viet Nam will someday want to find her birth mom as i would like to meet her myself. However, I respect my child enough to know thatis her decision and NOT mine or her birthmother's.
The mother is lucky her son is being taken care of at all. If you give up your child you don't get it back just because you're now 'ready' to deal with that child. Once a parent always a parent or never a parent. And I'd like to say something in Jolie's defence but that would make me as stupid as those of you criticising her. It must be nice to sit back and assume you know everything about the life of a stranger.
Were you not aware of the Heroin addict and self harmer Angelina was now you say about Pax's mother once an addict always an addict so that should still apply to Ange. Maybe just maybe his own mother may feed him better than his adoptive mother who loads all the kids on sugar because she cant cook. Angelina is all about Attention seeking now she is drinking heavily is that really good because she is supposedly pregnant again and drinking heavily. I have no idea how Brad puts up with that idiot of a female. she starves herself for attention. Now is that a good thing to be teaching her kids. If Brad had any sense he would run as far away with the kids as he can get from that attention seeking skeleton.
I wonder if Pax's biologcal mother would be asking for her son back if he was adopted by a normal couple. Why has it taken so long for her to put her hand up? If she was offered a large sum of money would she take the money and run Angelina has taken him to his coulntry of birth on a regular basis as she has done with the other adopted children. I'm not saying he shouldn't met his biological mother but will she take him if there is no money involved?????
Every child has a right to know where they came from, their heritage, parents,country and culture.It's not about the adults it's about the adoptee's identity!!
Pax has a mother and father. He has grandparents and probably aunts, uncles and cousins. He has an identity passed on to him by his parents and the generations of parents and ancestors before him. He has a culture that belongs to him and the right to know and learn about that culture. His age has nothing to do with it. Thankfully his mother is healthy now and can love him and teach him about his Vietnamese identity, family and country. Anybody who raises other people's children should know that the child has parents already. Who on earth would purposely keep this information secret from the child? Angie and Brad should have been nurturing a relationship for Pax (and the other adopted kids, for that matter) all these years with the children's families and countries. I actually can't believe the the kids are still in the dark about their own identities. I don't read much about Angie & Brad, but I am shocked they'd be insecure about Pax meeting his own mother.
The history of how he came to be at the "orphange" is what is really at the heart of the matter. Did his mother "sign final adoption papers" or was she asking for time and support to get her life together?The statement that Angie has always been insecure about Pax makes me think she obviously had reason to be,i.e., was there something tenuous about his actual "placement" there at the orphanage to start with? In my opinion, children who have no parents need adoption, preferably within their own country. Children who have parents, who are struggling, with addiction or poverty, need help in order to maintain the integrity of their family unit. What were the policies at the orphange? Should she have been offered help, and a time limited stay for her son in the orphanage? Those are the things I wonder about. Was he really available , and in need of adoption, or was he just chosen and the authorities made him available? For a "donation" to their orphanage? All relevant questions I think.
The sooner an adoptee has knowledge of his roots and where he comes from the better off they are. Having ties to this world and to his clan will only make him understand more about himself and the world in which lives in. There is no reason he can't be raised by his parents who adopted him and know his biological family. There is enough love for everyone.
I am disgusted with the lack of compassion in these comments. Yes, Pax's mom made horrible, selfish decisions and has paid a terrible price. But Angelina was fully aware that this boy was NOT an orphan. So did, her adoption agency. Angie could have paid for this mom's rehab and chosen a TRUE ORPHAN. But, like Madonna, she saw the kid she wanted and she made sure she got him. More important, Pax has the right to know who he is and that includes all members of his biological family, addicts or not. It is HIS story and something all adoptive parents have to deal with (I am one) whether they want to be adults about it or selfish cretins who only think of their own needs. Pax is going to have a lot of questions when he's older if he doesn't have them already, and Angie better be ready to deal with talking honestly or Pax will pay the emotional price. Let Pham see him. She has no legal claim. She can't keep him. But this little boy deserves to know his bio family. Have a heart!
Soon zahara will ask to see her mother who lives in southern Ethiopia Awassa, there is nothing like connecting with your blood family living away from your mother is like ghost wandering with no soul people need to understand the pain of the adoptees they were adopted by angelina to fulfil her needs and her marriage

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