[Responsibility2nd]

Y'all remember these stories from last year?

Adoption freeze urged after boy returned to Russia

 

Grandmother: Adopted boy sent back to Russia was violent (the other side of the story)

Russia furious over adopted boy sent back from US

What a mess!

 

Things ain't getting any better.

 

 

[greatvikingone]

He became an American citizen the moment he touched American soil, he is her responsibility even though he wasn’t the perfect child she wanted. Basically, they are babysitting him - and cheaper than she would find in the US.

[samtheman]

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.

That's how much the Russians spend in their orphanages, $2,500/month/child?

Yeah, right...

[jakerobins]

There’s a difference between a “truobled” child and a seriously disturbed Violent Child...Still I don’t agree with the way she handled the situation. But the kid would have proably ended up in the Juvenille Court system anyways...Sad Situation all around.

[hoosierham]

Sorry but I am just leery of the whole "adopt a foriegn child" thing,when there are children in America;same leery feeling about "women from country X make great wives...".

If you have to go a few thousand miles to find a mate or child,just maybe you have some other issues.

[swarthyguy]

Sounds fair to me.

After all, in America we have more than one case where a former husband, absolved of paternity via DNA, is nevertheless forced to continue child support, biological facts be damned.

[struwwelpeter]

Sort of related, this Russian politician made this comment I found interesting:

"I am against foreign adoption for one simple reason, and that is because we don't have many children to begin with."

This was said by Pavel Astakhov, Medvedev's ombudsman for child rights, in this izvestiya interview: http://www.izvestia.ru/obshestvo/article3150799/. It was on the Jessica Bigly case and not worth translating for obvious reasons.

A long time back I ran across an article in which the author was criticizing some yellow journalist for making up horrendous stories about how Russian children are abused and exploited after adoption - with hints of forced organ donation tossed in. There are probably a few cases, just as we see in our own system, but the gist of her article was that one cannot use Russian values to explain why foreigners want to adopt (ie: even though a Russian might do it for the money or child porn or whatever, that doesn't mean an Italian or French family would). She also thought this so-called child rights advocate should have to explain to every drug-addled, orphanage-abused child why he didn't think they should have a shot at a normal family life outside of that insane asylum they call a country.