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US Mom Sends Adopted Son, 7, Back to Russia Alone
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Posted on 04/09/2010 11:01:16 AM PDT by marthemaria

Edited on 04/09/2010 11:04:10 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

A U.S. mom sent her adopted seven-year-old Siberian son back to Russia alone because she did not want him anymore, it emerged Friday.

Artem Saveliev was taken from a grim Russian orphanage in September last year and given a new life in Tennessee.


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How cruel of here.
1 posted on 04/09/2010 11:01:16 AM PDT by marthemaria
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To: marthemaria

I believe Law and Order did a segment on this problem. It seems many of these kids have no physical or emotional contact and when adopted out have severe problems. Not that this is right, but it appears to be another problem in developing countries.


2 posted on 04/09/2010 11:03:09 AM PDT by ohiogrammy (12)
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What a bitch. Adoption is forever.


3 posted on 04/09/2010 11:03:24 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: marthemaria
I'm sure this was the best way to handle the situation.

</sarcasm>

4 posted on 04/09/2010 11:03:41 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (FYBO: Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: marthemaria

She can’t do that. That is very illegal I would think.


5 posted on 04/09/2010 11:03:45 AM PDT by GeronL (There is only a "Happily ever after" for you if you're the one writing your own script)
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To: marthemaria
Cruel hardly describes it.

Depending on how long ago she adopted the boy, he's probably a U.S. citizen by law, also.

6 posted on 04/09/2010 11:04:08 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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It wouldnt’ surprise me if she was mislead by the adoption agency, but it is very important to do due dilegence before adopting a child.

Sending him back like that was wrong.


7 posted on 04/09/2010 11:04:48 AM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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I have seen reports that some of these children are irreparably damaged psychologically and in some cases a danger to themselves and others.

This seems an extreme way to deal with the problem though.

8 posted on 04/09/2010 11:05:01 AM PDT by greyfoxx39 (ObamaLand: Ignore the inner-city minority gangs, send the FBI after white Christian militia.)
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just like a defective product, returned to vendor


9 posted on 04/09/2010 11:07:14 AM PDT by MNDude (The Republican Congress Economy--1995-2007)
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It wouldnt’ surprise me if she was mislead by the adoption agency, but it is very important to do due dilegence before adopting a child.

Yep. What she did was obviously the wrong way to handle it. But the underlying problem is that there are a whole lot of those kids that are seriously messed up. Some of them might be saved, but some of them are just never going to have anything approaching a normal life. They're goners.

11 posted on 04/09/2010 11:10:41 AM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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The kid was from war torn Serbia.

"Nothing but ice" Siberia, not "bullets flying" Serbia.

12 posted on 04/09/2010 11:14:13 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: ohiogrammy

A married couple I know (the husband is a good friend of mine) is in the process of adopting two young children, and they have been advised to be very careful when dealing with children from Eastern Europe. Psychological problems are one of the issues, along with physical/neurological impairments related to drug and alcohol abuse by the birth mother.


15 posted on 04/09/2010 11:17:12 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Let the Eastern bastards freeze in the dark.")
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To: Morgana
I have read news reports that he was not violent or anything like that. Don`t know that to believe.
16 posted on 04/09/2010 11:18:26 AM PDT by marthemaria (i)
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To: Morgana

This adopted child was as much her child as a biologically born one. Legally and morally. For her to be allowed to “send him back” should be as repugnant an idea to us as a biological mother, to use your analogy, abandoning him in a store.

If he was truly such a danger, there are alternatives here. Was this child not an American citizen???


17 posted on 04/09/2010 11:19:28 AM PDT by workerbee (Yes, I hate Obama because of his color: RED!)
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To: Morgana

The child was from Siberia not Serbia.


18 posted on 04/09/2010 11:20:07 AM PDT by carton253 (Ask me about Throw Away the Scabbard - a Civil War alternate history.)
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>>>I believe Law and Order did a segment on this problem.<<<

I recall an episode of “The Closer” with a similar plot. An adopted teenager, originally from Russia, was a sociopath and his adopted father killed him after the boy killed a neighbors dog.


19 posted on 04/09/2010 11:20:12 AM PDT by Above My Pay Grade
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Nope, it says "Siberia" in the article.
My sister and her husband adopted a wonderful, very smart and very well-adjusted little boy from Siberia four years ago, and he couldn’t fit into our family any better if he had been born to my sister. Assuming all children that are in orphanages are a mistake to adopt seems pretty over the top to me.
20 posted on 04/09/2010 11:22:03 AM PDT by Rutabega (European 'intellectualism' has NOTHING on America's kick-a$$ism!)
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