Posted on 04/09/2010 7:52:48 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
MOSCOW - Russia should freeze all child adoptions with U.S. families, the country's foreign minister urged Friday after an American woman allegedly put her 8-year-old adopted Russian son on a one-way flight back to his homeland.
Artyom Savelyev arrived in Moscow unaccompanied on a United Airlines flight Thursday from Washington, the Kremlin children's rights office said Friday.
The children's office said the boy, whose adoptive name is Justin Hansen, was carrying a letter from his adoptive mother, Torry Hansen of Shelbyville, Tennessee, saying she was returning him due to severe psychological problems.
this child is mentally unstable. He is violent and has severe psychopathic issues," the letter said, according to Russian officials, who sent what they said was a copy of the letter to The Associated Press. The authenticity of the letter could not be independently verified.
The U.S. ambassador to Russia, John Beyrle, said he was "deeply shocked by the news" and "very angry that any family would act so callously toward a child that they had legally adopted."
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“this child is mentally unstable. He is violent and has severe psychopathic issues”
I’ve heard this about other boys adopted from Russian. I wonder if it is common and if so why?
Sad how adopted children have become no more than items you can buy at the store and return.
The woman needs a few years in prison on felony child abandonment charges. Perhaps she should be allowed to serve her time in a Russian, rather than an American, facility.
I think it may be risky to adopt an older Russian child. Russian orphanages are not good places for a developing child.
It’s not just the boys. We know a family with 2 adopted Russian girls and they are a handful.
On the other hand, some adoptive parents have unrealistic expectations of their children, especially if they are older then toddlers.
We have had zero issues with our adopted children, but they were 14 months and 3 yrs old at adoption.
I’m guessing it’s the orphanages where they are housed. Probably some have fetal alcohol syndrome too.
Since I am sure that the adopting mother had to cook up some phony story to tell the airline for it to allow an unaccompanied 8-year-old to fly to a foreign country, I have no doubt that this woman can look forward to some major legal problems.
Regards,
Yes. She handled this badly. Biological parents sometimes end up with surprises and don't quite get the child they expected. That's the way it goes. Adoptive parents also don't get guarantees or do-overs. This woman should be in prison.
I remeber reading somethign earlier about how parents in Russia bail on their mentally ill children and they they pass them off at adoption agencies as “normal” to prospective american parents.
The only mentally unstable peson in Nurse Cratched who adopted this child.
what a monster she is.
Read the discussions at the site.
From personal observation and comments, I think some of these adoption programs are actually cleansing or removing problems from one place to another.
In no way condoning shipping a kid back like an unwanted product.
No adoptive dad?
It is hard enough to raise a well-behaved boy if he’s had no psychological trauma AND he has a solid father. You are set up to fail if you deliberately adopt a troubled kid and are only a single parent.
My 8 year old boys may have had similar problems if their dad had not been around to keep them in line!
I agree. There is no excuse. Children are not products or goods purchased at retail (or are they?).
This is precisely the kind of garbage that forces US adoption services to be such a pain. I know great couples who have been trying for YEARS to adopt a child - and continue to get the runaround and have spent a ton of $$$ on legal fees. All while children rot in foster “care”. But the reason for the runaround (and why so many US couples now go overseas to adopt) is that there is such a concern for idiots just like this case... A child has some issues - is that a surprise, considering he was adopted (no parents?) and taken halfway around the world and plopped into a completely new and stressful environment that included a foreign language, customs, and people...
Ya think a child might have problems?
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
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Institutional Autism. Interesting.
When we were having trouble getting pregnant, my husband and I checked into Russian and Ukrainian adoption. Many of the children available for adoption have severe fetal alcohol syndrome. The mothers are prostitutes and don’t change their lifestyles when they get pregnant because they already know the child will be given up at birth.
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