Posted on 01/27/2011 12:28:59 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. - An American woman who sent her adopted son back to Russia has been hit with a child support claim by an adoption agency, but her attorney asked a Tennessee juvenile court to throw the claim out.
Torry Hansen, who had been living in Shelbyville, sent the 8-year-old boy on a plane to Moscow by himself last April with a note saying that she didn't want to be his mother anymore because the child had psychological problems. The incident created an international uproar.
According to documents obtained by the Shelbyville Times-Gazette, Hansen's attorney filed a motion to dismiss child support claims made by Hansen's adoption agency, World Association for Children and Parents, in juvenile court in Shelbyville.
The newspaper reported Thursday that Russian authorities want Hansen to pay about $2,500 a month to care for the child, who is living in an orphanage.
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The 'available' children in America really aren't. Biological parents, and I believe grandparents as well, have sued to get the children back, sometimes years later. Most don't, but who wants to take the risk?
Adopt from an overseas orphanage, and you won't have that problem.
“I am just leery of the whole “adopt a foreign child” thing...”
What children are available in America? Have you tried to adopt nationally? Let me explain... available children are pretty rare. Infants and toddlers even more so. Open Adoptions are available but you better be extremely wealthy and young. Essentially, you post pictures of yourself, your home, your vacation home etc.. in a portfolio in hopes to get selected by the birth mother. Many adoption agencies will even recommend you get some “plastic” work and change your appearance. The Open part of the contract (if selected) can include visitation, summer vacations etc of the birth mother and the child. Some contracts even require that you TAKE the birth mother on your family vacation. “Available children in foster care” are available but you better prepare yourself for long term emotional and physical abused kids. Many are already on anti-psychotic medications, have abused animals, have set fire etc... as young as five. The main problem is that the birth parent(s) have to sign away their parental rights. Many of these children are placed in foster care for years even after abuse has been done. So, what does a family do if they want a child? Well, they could go the whole fertility route with no guarantees. They could try to adopt in the U.S. with no guarantees OR they can go through the foreign adoption procedure with the guarantee that if they pass all of the test (believe me, there are tons of them like medical exams, financial disclosures, home inspections, background checks done via county/state/federal, driving records, tax records, fingerprinting, etc...)then they can receive a child.
We adopted a toddler from China who is now four. She is the absolute light of our lives. She is not our “foreign” child but OUR child... and yes, she is an American. Red, white and blue! Many will say that she is lucky due to the fact that she doesn’t have to worry about dying in some orphanage or being forced into a factory at 12. However, let me tell you that we are the lucky ones.
Beautiful! Your words resonate with our experience.
We met our adopted daughter when she was ten, and she became a member of our family when she was 11. We have the Ukrainian flag in her room and I speak a little Russian (she's ethnically Russian) and have encouraged her to be bilingual. Now I speak more Russian than she does, and she is 100% pure blooded American. She is a rabid University of Kentucky fan (which breaks my heart) and she even dislikes Obama. Can you believe it? So, yes, you might be wrong ;>)
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Look it up. It is not his fault and it is not a surprise to adopters that Russian children have a high rate of it.
LOL! All right, you two. Get together, would you? :)
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If this is the same case, the little cherub threatened to kill the adoptive mother’s biological daughter so he could “get the house.”
Sounds like the child should have been the one to undergo psychological testing pre-adoption.
>>If you have to go a few thousand miles to find a mate or child,just maybe you have some other issues.<<
Oh, come on now. Getting drunk every night, watching porn on the TV, expecting my wife to become my sexual servant are normal issues, aren’t they?
Michael, is that you?
America has long been a dumping ground for Russian children with fetal alcohol syndrome and many other disorders. They do not want these children and they are neglected and abused in their orphanages.
If they want to charge this woman child support, they should be prepared to pay for the medical care for all of the disorders the children they send here. Surgeries, medication, physical therapy and special education. Cough it up Rootin’ Tootin’ Putin. Russia LIES about the medical conditions of some of these children.
And didn’t Putin say there were several families that wanted the kid? What happened with dat? Did he threaten to burn their houses down too?
I expect Michael would be responding from his grave to such a question. Did you do the honorable thing and extinguish him?
BINGO! It’s the American Way. I’m surprised they’re going after a WOMAN for CS. The American Courts usually look the other way when there’s a non custodial bioMOM involved and don’t require CS. On the other hand, if it’s a non custodial bioDAD we’re talking about, well, that’s a horse of a different color. It’s “make him pay till he’s penniless.”
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