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According to Page Six, MADONNA opens up in the upcoming issue of Interview magazine about her young son she adopted from Malawi in 2006. "He wouldn’t have lived if I hadn’t taken him," she says of DAVID. "It’s not even a possibility."

She says that her daughter LOURDES even came with her to David’s home country.

"She spent several weeks working in the orphanages, particularly one with newborn children, and most of them were HIV-positive," she says. "She so came into her own and was so responsible and stayed for eight hours every day and worked tirelessly. I thought, ‘Why am I babying her so much?’ She’s capable of so much more. We don’t let kids do anything. We think, ‘Oh, they’re kids — they can’t take care of other kids, they can’t do this, they can’t do that.’ And after you go to Africa, you drop all that silliness."