Posted on 11/17/2004 4:49:06 AM PST by jb6
MOSCOW - Adoption of Russian children by foreigners has turned out to be a profitable business recently, Russian Deputy General Prosecutor Vladimir Kolesnikov declared at the round table meeting Laws on Adoption: Practices and Ways to Improve Them, which was held in the Russian State Duma yesterday.
According to him, the Russian General Prosecutor's Office is receiving complaints filed by foreigners that they are requested to pay enormous amounts of money so as to adopt a Russian child.
“Despite the fact that adoption is free of charge in Russia, foreigners are sometimes requested to pay up to $50,000 to adopt a child; this process is developing into a business,” Mr. Kolesnikov pointed out. According to him, it is necessary to solve this problem by signing bilateral international agreements on providing help in civil and domestic proceedings. In addition, Mr. Kolesnikov is sure that it is necessary to control child welfare agencies.
Moreover, Mr. Kolesnikov expressed his discontent about how Russian child welfare agencies work. “The General Prosecutor's Office shares the Duma’s concerns about the level of homelessness among children as well as an increase in the number of orphans and draws attention to the inefficiency of the work of child welfare agencies,” Mr. Kolesnikov underlined. According to the Deputy General Prosecutor, the measures that are being taken are not enough to change the situation.
In particular, the work of separate state agencies and officials negatively affects the accommodation and adoption of orphans. “Requirements of the Family Code concerning identifying children who become orphans are generally not met,” Mr. Kolesnikov stressed. In some regions, there is no information exchange between regional and federal databases, and as a result, many children cannot be adopted.
“Child welfare agencies do not take the necessary measures to have children adopted by Russian families; it has become known that certain child welfare agencies’ have mercenary motives while allowing Russian children to be adopted by foreigners,” Mr. Kolesnikov said. According to him, all these violations resulted in the fact that in 2003, the number of adoptions of Russian children made by foreigners exceeded that made by Russians for the first time.
Practices and statistics show that the adoption of orphans “has been orientated towards foreigners” over the past few years. In particular, more than 45,000 children have been taken abroad for adoption over the past 10 years. This process was the most dynamic in the years 2001 to 2003. This data was presented by Nikolay Pershutkin, the Deputy head for the Public Security Service of the Russian Interior Ministry.
“The absence of clear legal requirements in this sphere impedes controlling this process as it is required by the situation and the interests of adopted Russian children,” the representative of the Interior Ministry reported. In particular, according to him, among the most vexing problems is “independent adoption,” when a considerable number of Russian children are taken abroad by so-called “independent adopters,” whose legal status corresponds to the rights of Russian citizens. As such, simplified procedures for registration of parental rights apply to them.
“Last year, 2,500 children were taken abroad to this category of foreigners and nobody knows the fate of a majority of them,” Mr. Pershutkin added. According to him, law enforcement agencies need tough legal regulations to control these activities and to impede these unlawful actions.
Meanwhile, the number of Russian children adopted by foreigners has increased by 5 times over the past 10 years, Yekaterina Lyakhova, the Chairwoman of the Duma Committee on Women, Family and Young People, declared.
Foreigners adopted 5,500 children in 1998 and about 8,000 children in 2003. This figure will reach 10,000 this year, Lyakhova said having underlined that primarily healthy children were leaving Russia. The proportion of disabled children taken abroad for adoption amounts to about 2.5 percent.
Under the guise of adoption, the real trade of children is hidden. Citizens of the USA, Canada and Italy adopt children very often, Lyakhova said. She also stressed that foreigners were given priority over Russian citizens when adoption issues were settled.
Adoption (especially foreign) has turned into quite a racket.
You're welcome. Since single parent adoption is legal in all 50 states, you're good to go. The first step is to stop lying to yourself.
Actually, Askel, you've creeped me out enough that I'm going to stop trying to convince you that adoption's for you. I hope you don't do it, and since I have no interest in meeting you at your level in the rest of this discussion, I'll leave you to your keyboard.
For anyone else that might click on this thread, and is interested in adoption, please FReepmail me. Askel doesn't have a clue what she's talking about regarding costs and requirements to adopt.
=== Since single parent adoption is legal in all 50 states,
I'll be damned. So is abortion! That'll come in handy should I end up getting pregnant after all and find myself saddled with a Defective whose name the government will want for their Database. After all, who in their right mind wants to have (or adopt) a kid with "strings" who might be a hassle?
=== The first step is to stop lying to yourself.
That fathers are critical? That's the Big Lie under which I'm operating? The fact it's not my "right" to have a kid with or without a father?
=== Askel doesn't have a clue what she's talking about regarding costs and requirements to adopt.
Please don't give the impression that this wholly unsubstantiated statement applies to the FACT the government's only giving out tax breaks to those who adopt Foreign or other than "Special Needs" kids.
It's critically important that the same state who gifted you the right to prevent, procure or abort children as you see fit has certain Standards it applies when using tax credits to encourage one form of adoption over another.
Hasnt American adoption of Russian children been halted? I have a friend who is in the process of adopting a child from China and she showed me the sheet of countries where adoptions were accepted by the US. Russia was one of them.
Typical of today's society, having or getting a child for their OWN gain, not the childs. Civilization is based upon a father AND a mother. That is why God made each sex unique and different. You can not stop lying to yourself.
God Bless your convictions.
No tax cuts for adopting "special needs" kids.
Of course not, in the eyes of the state, this will cost them money. How do I know this, just check my tag line. They are cutting services or totally elimintating them so we can have new bike paths, etc. Special needs to the state means special shafting.
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It is best for a child to have a mother and father, but it also better to have a mother than no parent at all. While you don't see widows with children much anymore, it used be a common occurance. Those women raised their children alone and did the best they could.
Preach all you want. Children suffer without any parents while you do.
It is best for a child to have a mother and father, but it also better to have a mother than no parent at all. While you don't see widows with children much anymore, it used be a common occurance. Those women raised their children alone and did the best they could.
Preach all you want, but orphaned children suffer without any parents while you judge.
Sorry for the double post. I thought the first one got lost.
Your argument is flawed. They did not choose to be widows, but your mom is CHOOSING to be single. A child needs two parents, a mother and father. Not a gay couple either.
But if the choice is no mom or just a mom, I would prefer a child with a mom. But you must still ask yourself, is she doing it for her own benefit or the childs.
Get back to me when you've educated yourself more. Then see if you can tell me that a child is better off starving to death alone in a room than being adopted by one parent.
Actually we have looked into foreign adoption, then we had our son. So your wrong there.
Get back to me when you've educated yourself more.
We have several friends who have adopted from all over the world, so your wrong again.
Then see if you can tell me that a child is better off starving to death alone in a room than being adopted by one parent.
Obviously you did not read my previous post in which I said
"But if the choice is no mom or just a mom, I would prefer a child with a mom. But you must still ask yourself, is she doing it for her own benefit or the childs."
This is bizarre. It's more expensive to adopt a child in Russia than it is to go through this country social services?
Every child is a wanted child. I do believe the government beauracracy can be its own worst enemy.
"Looked into" is not doing, so you haven't adopted a child.
I'm sure the "several friends" you speak of are married couples. I don't think a single mom would feel very welcome around you.
If you think a single woman is only adopting for selfish reasons, I don't even know where to start, so I won't.
See ya.
I don't know where you get your lies. We took a larger tax cut, much larger actually, for our third Russian adoption in 1997, for a special needs child.
Thanks, and I agree wholeheartedly with the rest of your post as well.
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