Why did Elizabeth Taylor adopt?

Answer 1

Only she could really answer that question and I am afraid it is too late to ask her. But, the line in the biographies is that after the birth of her third child, Liza Todd, her husband (Mike Todd) gave permission for her tubes to be tied when the Doctors expressed concern for her life if Elizabeth were to have another child. Remember folks, that this was 1957 and things were a lot different back then before taking Mr. Todd to task for making this decision. Only 26 when Mike Todd died, one can reasonably assume that she and a subsequent husband might want a child together. That was apparently her desire during the waning months of her marriage to Eddie Fisher so she began adoption proceedings of a wonderful little girl whom the world came to know as Maria Burton as she and Richard finalized the adoption after their 1964 marriage.