Posted on 04/10/2010 4:07:21 PM PDT by LouAvul
Edited on 04/10/2010 5:29:53 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
A Tennessee woman has stirred international outrage by sending a Russian boy she adopted back to Moscow on a flight by himself, yet local authorities said it's not clear if she broke any laws. The 7-year-old boy, Artyom Savelyev, was put on a plane with a note saying his adoptive mother no longer wanted to parent him because he was violent and had severe psychological problems. While her actions were condemned by Russia's president and U.S. diplomats, the sheriff investigating the case said it's not clear if anyone can be charged.
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Why would a birth certificate be issued for a seven-year-old foreign national being adopted by U.S. citizen parents?
In case he wants to run for POTUS in the future..
Does she get a refund?
They got the boy, safe and sound. If the kid is so great, what’s Russia’s problem? It shouldn’t be difficult to find someone to take the little darling.
Acquaintances of ours adopted a kid from a Romanian orphanage. The kid seems nice enough, but he is very undersize for his age and is severely developmentally disabled. I’m sorry to say he’s damaged goods and is likely to remain so.
The bed-wetters and hand-wringers are having a blast with this one! If the kid was phycho, he shouldn't have been put up for adoption in the first place. Just some russian hucksters looking to make a quick buck from some unsuspecting yankee. The American family did right by sending the kid back.
It’s sad, 8 YO’s can be a handful, even when they have been brought up in a stable family... The U.S. should have it’s own orphanages, stocked with all those little souls we abort.
I guess that's one way to talk about a child.
I think after that long, she only gets in-store credit.
I saw a piece on this very story last night on,IIRC,the BBC.Along with it was a short story about the adoption of Russian kids in general.In that piece they noted something that I think is *very* important.That is that “fetal alcohol syndrome” is very,*very* common there even today.My understanding is that this syndrome can result in its victims suffering lifelong,devastating disabilities...particularly mental disabilities.Add to that the breathtakingly brutal conditions in the typical Soviet (I *refuse* to say “Russian”) orphanage and you have the huge potential for orphaned/abandoned kids to be profoundly disabled.Mentally and/or physically.
What 99% of the media outlets aren't saying is that the family arranged for the boy to be picked up in Russia. It's not like they just stuck him on a plane and waved goodbye.
Typical shoddy "journalism".
when we adopted our American sons here in the US they both received new birth certificates with their new names and our names as their parents...
From what I have read, Tennessee recognizes adoptions finalized in other countries. It’s recommended to go to court in TN for the purpose of name change and getting a new BC issued. One should have been issued in Russia upon the finalization of the adoption I think, but getting one in the US makes it easier for getting copies of it etc. and it will be in English.
I also don’t think you can go to court in TN till the child has been in your home for 6 months.
we have some living and breathing just sitting in limbo because birth parents get chance after chance after chance to get their kids back... 18 years later, the parent still doesn't have it together and the children go from foster home to foster home if they are lucky... otherwise it's group home to group home... we adopted both of our boys through CPS... or county services, if you will...
LOL!
You’re right, I shouldn’t have put it like that. I apologize.
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