Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt really believe in big families. They believe in big families the way old school Irish Catholics do. We're not talking 1 or 2 kids and it's lights out. Instead, Jolie and Pitt want to fill the largest chateau they can find with as many rugrats as they can add to the family. And they don't care where the kids come from, just as long as they get more kids on their kid farm.



What psychological damage they're doing to their children is still many years away from manifesting, so we don't have the advantage of 20/20 hindsight when considering the impact the rapid acquisition of children has on the current kids, but we can guess that it probably screws them up just a bit. Hell, being Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's kid is trouble enough, but when you consider you have 18 brothers and sisters you know that just compounds the soul-searching.

The latest rumors have Brangelina adopting a new child from Namibia. Some poor schmuck in Namibia is about to hit the baby lottery. Or is he?

Much like all of the other kids in the house, Brangelina will undoubtedly shop the baby photos to the highest bidder. So far, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have netted a staggering $35 million in baby pictures and the cumulative numbers could one day total in the billions if the couple continues to spawn/adopt at their current rate.

Any new kid will mean the totals of Pitt-Jolie children are becoming staggering; there will be 7 kids in the house, all born since 2001. If the couple is serious about adopting children from Namibia, they may have to do some serious legal wrangling.

"A recent Namibian High Court ruling makes intercountry adoption possible.  However, there is not yet a new law governing this procedure.  Foreign adoption is currently covered by an interim policy agreement between the Ministry of Health and Social Services and the Ministry of Gender Equality and Child Welfare in terms of The Children’s Act of 1960.  This policy makes it very difficult for non-resident foreigners to adopt.  In general, only foreigners who are resident in Namibia have been allowed to adopt Namibian children.  Further, the list of prospective adoptive parents in Namibia is longer than the list of children eligible for adoption, making adoption by non-resident foreigners even more difficult and lengthy."

Of course if they're already close to the Namibian government (which they are with other nations on the Dark Continent), they will likely have an easy time of adoption. When you're as rich, famous, and wonderful as Brangelina, the roadblocks that stop ordinary people from adoption are hardly noticeable.