Why would a birth certificate be issued for a seven-year-old foreign national being adopted by U.S. citizen parents?
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.
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 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".
LOL!
You don't leave Russia with the child if they aren't final. Tennessee paperwork is irrelevant to US citizenship.
But, if the local authorities don't want to do their job, ship the legal mother and the grandmother to Russia and see if the Russians can come up with something.
Where’s the husband?
Why didn’t the mother consult with Tennessee social workers to see if anything could be done to help HER, instead of just packing the kid off to Russia?
I’m certain that her state has some sort of social service agency where she could have surrendered custody. I think the boy would have stood a better chance here, in the US, than he will in Russia.
I suppose that I lack empathy but I just cannot understand why these people want to adopt so badly that they are willing to take other countries’ children. Especially with the costs so high; I read that it often is in the 10s of thousands.
But then again, I don’t understand adoption anyway. And no, I don’t have children myself.
The biological mother of this child was an alcoholic and it sounds like the kid had fetal alcohol syndrome.
When Carter was in office and let all the Cuban immigrants come in, remember Castro emptied the jails and mental wards and sent them to Florida (the Marielitos, I think they were called...most ended up locked up.) I would not doubt for one minute that Russia would have no qualms about sending children with mental disabilities to the U.S., figuring Russia would save money their long term care in Russia would entail.