Angelina Jolie adopts a Vietnamese brother for Maddox, Zahara and Shiloh · 2007-03-16 15:59
Angelina Jolie adopted her fourth child on Thursday, a Vietnamese boy from a Ho Chi Minh City orphanage.
She is to bring her boy to the USA next week. The three-and-a-half year old boy has been described by Vietnamese adoption officials as a little bit shy.
USA Today reports, that Jolie’s trip to Vietnam wasn’t free of turmoil. Trevor Neilson, Jolie’s international affairs adviser, said Jolie complained of paparazzi swarming their van.
According to Thanhnien News.com, senior officials said Jolie’s adoption had been speeded up, partly due to her celebrity status. She filed papers in early March, although she visited last November. The length of time it takes to adopt in Vietnam varies, with an average of about six months.
Jolie has said that the couple would like to balance the races their family with two Asian children and two African children. “They seem to be going in an all-embracing way in terms of gender, meaning and balance,” she says.
The couple have chosen several unisex names for their children, and they have also moved toward recognizing their children’s heritage or heroes with middle names.
Jolie gave her new son a name Pax Thien Jolie. His new name means “peaceful sky” in two languages. Pax means “peace” in Latin, Thien is Vietnamese for “sky.”
The boy was born in November 2003 and was abandoned as an infant. Jolie already has three children: her Cambodian-born son Maddox, 5, daughters Zahara, 2, and Shiloh, 10 months.
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