US Mom Sends Adopted Son, 7, Back to Russia Alone

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[marthemaria]

A U.S. mom sent her adopted seven-year-old Siberian son back to Russia alone because she did not want him anymore, it emerged Friday.

Artem Saveliev was taken from a grim Russian orphanage in September last year and given a new life in Tennessee.

[marthemaria]

How cruel of here.

[ohiogrammy]

I believe Law and Order did a segment on this problem. It seems many of these kids have no physical or emotional contact and when adopted out have severe problems. Not that this is right, but it appears to be another problem in developing countries.

[Jewbacca]

What a bitch. Adoption is forever.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I'm sure this was the best way to handle the situation.

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[GeronL]

She can’t do that. That is very illegal I would think.

[colorado tanker]

Cruel hardly describes it.

Depending on how long ago she adopted the boy, he's probably a U.S. citizen by law, also.

[Retired Greyhound]

It wouldnt’ surprise me if she was mislead by the adoption agency, but it is very important to do due dilegence before adopting a child.

Sending him back like that was wrong.

[greyfoxx39]

I have seen reports that some of these children are irreparably damaged psychologically and in some cases a danger to themselves and others.

This seems an extreme way to deal with the problem though.

[MNDude]

just like a defective product, returned to vendor

[Ramius]

It wouldnt’ surprise me if she was mislead by the adoption agency, but it is very important to do due dilegence before adopting a child.

Yep. What she did was obviously the wrong way to handle it. But the underlying problem is that there are a whole lot of those kids that are seriously messed up. Some of them might be saved, but some of them are just never going to have anything approaching a normal life. They're goners.

[antiRepublicrat]

The kid was from war torn Serbia.

"Nothing but ice" Siberia, not "bullets flying" Serbia.

[Alberta's Child]

A married couple I know (the husband is a good friend of mine) is in the process of adopting two young children, and they have been advised to be very careful when dealing with children from Eastern Europe. Psychological problems are one of the issues, along with physical/neurological impairments related to drug and alcohol abuse by the birth mother.

[marthemaria]

I have read news reports that he was not violent or anything like that. Don`t know that to believe.

[workerbee]

This adopted child was as much her child as a biologically born one. Legally and morally. For her to be allowed to “send him back” should be as repugnant an idea to us as a biological mother, to use your analogy, abandoning him in a store.

If he was truly such a danger, there are alternatives here. Was this child not an American citizen???

[carton253]

The child was from Siberia not Serbia.

[Above My Pay Grade]

>>>I believe Law and Order did a segment on this problem.<<<

I recall an episode of “The Closer” with a similar plot. An adopted teenager, originally from Russia, was a sociopath and his adopted father killed him after the boy killed a neighbors dog.

[Rutabega]

Nope, it says "Siberia" in the article.
My sister and her husband adopted a wonderful, very smart and very well-adjusted little boy from Siberia four years ago, and he couldn’t fit into our family any better if he had been born to my sister. Assuming all children that are in orphanages are a mistake to adopt seems pretty over the top to me.