[MamaTexan]

I'm all for tough love, but a child comes with a legal responsibility. She left when she was 2, then was adopted by the man her mother married.

So they basically sent her to a stranger in Russia and left her there.

Sounds more like they were just to cowardly to deal with the situation. In a just world, they would be charged for child abandonment as well.

[Innovative]

On the other hand, she is now working and studying — maybe she is finally learning responsibility.

“Sofia now lives at a hotel, where she works 60 hours a week. She uses her wages to fund her studies. “

And what if she stayed here, she could be dead of a drug overdose by now — obviously the parents couldn’t control her.