The Hollywood couple says that it is the right time to do it since the difficult situation in this country that has left many children homeless, the couple has three adopted children and three biological ones.
For this reason and after several health problems of their own, which included the removal of their ovaries, Angelina, 39, and her husband Brad Pitt have moved forward with their plans to adopt a Syrian child before the end of September, when summer ends. in the northern hemisphere.
Angelina and Brad They are already parents of six children: three of them are biological (Shiloh, age eight; and twins Knox and Vivienne, ages six); and three other adopted (Maddox, 13, who was born in Cambodia; Pax, an 11-year-old Vietnamese; and Zahara, 10, who was born in Ethiopia).
A business partner of the couple was the one who revealed that Angelina and Brad want to adopt a Syrian girl. «She has cried on several occasions for the situation of young orphans in the Syrian conflict»the man stated.
He added that «now that Angelina has resolved her health issues, both she and Brad believe the time is right to adopt another orphan from there, most likely a girl.»
As a special envoy for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)Jolie has made more than six visits to the Syrian refugee camps, where she witnessed the atrocities that happen in that part of the planet.
At least 70,000 Syrian children have lost one of their parents and another 3,700 directly suffered the death of both parents who participated in the civil war, according to the newspaper Daily Mail.
During a speech in November 2013, Angelina Jolie implored the world to save a generation of Syrian children left traumatized and isolated as a result of the humanitarian catastrophe in the country led by dictator Bashar Al Assad.
Last March, the American actress, who married Brad Pitt in 2014, revealed that she could no longer have any more biological children after undergoing an operation in which her ovaries were removed.
The artist made the decision to prevent cancer cells from taking over her organs, since her mother Marcheline Bertrand died of cancer in 2007. While in 2012 Angelina underwent a double mastectomy as another preventive measure.
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Taken from Infobae