Pax Thien Jolie (given name Pham Quang), the 3-year-old Vietnamese boy that Angelina Jolie has adopted, started bawling when his new mother knelt down to talk to him today during a welcoming ceremony at the orphanage.
"She told me she understands – that it's normal for all young children to be scared," said the orphanage director, Mr. Nguyen Van Trung.
"Later he was okay, very cheerful and happy," Trung said. "He even played with his new brother Maddox."
Jolie completed adoption procedures after picking up Pax from the orphanage. She adopted him as a single parent because Vietnam's adoption regulations don't allow unmarried couples to co-adopt. Maddox accompanied his mother to meet his new brother.
Pax wasn't told by the staff that he was being adopted that day which may have been why he was so upset in the beginning.
"We did not say anything to him, afraid we might put pressure on him and more frightened," Tuyen said. "We just told him that we are taking him out. You are going to play outside – play with a mother and father."
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