This is a cross post from my personal family blog. It doesn't follow with the theme of this blog, but I feel so strongly about this today that I had to post on both blogs;
I read this sad news on yahoo today, I hoped it wouldn't come to this;
Russia has suspended all adoptions to U.S. families until the two countries can agree on procedures, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday — a week after an American woman sent her 7-year-old adopted son back to Russia on a plane by himself.
The boy's return — without supervision or explanation aside from a note he carried from his adoptive mother saying he had psychological problems — incensed Russian authorities and the public, and prompted aggressive media coverage of foreign adoptions.
A U.S. delegation will visit Moscow "in the next few days" to discuss a possible bilateral adoption agreement, ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said.
"Russia believes that only such an agreement which will contain effective tools for Russian and U.S. officials to monitor the living conditions of adopted Russian children will ensure that recent tragedies in the United States will not be repeated," Nesterenko said in a televised briefing.
The Tennessee woman who sent back her adopted Russian son last Thursday claimed she had been misled by his Russian orphanage about his condition.
Russians were outraged that no charges were filed against her in the United States.
"How can we prosecute a person who abused the rights of a Russian child abroad?" Russia's children's rights ombudsman, Pavel Astakhov, said in a televised interview Wednesday. "If there was an adoption treaty in place, we would have legal means to protect Russian children abroad.
Some 3,000 U.S. applications for adopting Russian children are now pending, according to the Joint Council on International Children's Services, which represents many U.S. agencies engaged in international adoption.
I am deeply saddened today. Sad for the child who was rejected by his American mother, sad for the American mother that thought her actions could ever be ok, sad for the collapse of the amazing process that is Russian / US adoption, sad for all those hopeful adoptive parents who are waiting for their miracle and especially sad for those adoptive parents who have already met their miracle and are waiting for them to come home, which at this point may never happen.
I don't think I have ever been more thankful than I am today that we have Sarah and Jacob in our family and I will be thanking God every moment for our blessings.
My heart goes out to those that are in pain today I can only imagine a small amount of what they are feeling and today my day starts with my tears shed for those people I don't know and for my own relief that Sarah and Jacob will always be in our family.
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4 comments:
the two things I find hardest to believe about this story are:
1) That someone who would have had to go through the long and expensive process of foreign adoption would receive a son and then be able to do something like this without going through proper channels.
2) That the Russian government would take such drastic actions against an entire process due to the actions of a single person out of thousands of successful adoptions?!
With regard to Russia, there are a minority who are against international adoption and were looking for any opportunity to shut it down, unfortunately this woman gave them one.
That's terrible! :( How could a person send their child away like that???
That is so wrong and so sad xx
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