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US urges Russia to lift adoptions ban
Published: 23 April, 2010, 10:10
Edited: 03 October, 2010, 00:39
TAGS: Children, Crime, Scandal, Russia, Human rights, Law, USA
A group of US lawmakers is urging Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to lift the freeze on child adoptions by American citizens - particularly for applications already being processed.
The letter was signed by five senators and 12 House members.
The temporary ban was put in place after an American woman sent a then-7-year-old Russian boy she had adopted back to Moscow earlier this month.
She sent him alone, on a transatlantic flight, with a note saying she no longer wanted him.
This latest case followed several incidents in which Russian children adopted by American families were abused or even killed.
Moscow insists adoptions should be regulated by a new agreement between Russia and the US – which is expected to be discussed by an American delegation arriving in Moscow next week.
23.04.2010, 09:32
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The US and the lawmakers could not care less about the welfare of the Russian children in America, as they are actually being abused, killed or abandoned once adopted.
The only concern for the lawmakers in the US is that they arrogate themselves the image of better than anybody in the care of children and families and it would not look good that actually they are murdering or abusing Russian children in American homes.
I have written a comment on that in a related topic, about American step parents torturing 3 little Russian sisters.
Regards
I hope Mr. Putin doesn't rush into any decision regarding Russian adoptions especially now while the USA is in such economic turmoil. There are plenty of American children that need to be adopted by American parents. It makes no sense to adopt a child from a foreign country when there might be family who would want to be a part of a child's life. There has to be a better solution. If children don't have a family then the government, school, community need to rally around them so that they have a special, privileged life. Can't the birth mother be helped and trained so that she can play an important role in her child's upbringing? Children should know who gave birth to them. They don't need to live with the parents but they should know where they came from. It's cruel to turn children into commodities, to be traded for a price. It's immoral and un-Christian. There is a better solution for Russia's unwanted children. This issue should be made a national priority.
Russia should keep ban forever. Americans should adopt their own children that Americans teens and drug-addict parents rejected and kids whose parents lost their parental rights. Kids that staying in the foster parents homes. Why keep them in the foster parent home – just adopt them. I know why, because government pays for foster child, but if they adopt child there won't be any green coming from government. Do not make or promote abortions, which is US lawmakers all for it, but if you do not want child just give it up for adoption. Finally get yourself a dog or cat like most Americans, at least if you kill it it won't be that bad, but wait, in the US you can actually get longer prison term for killing animal than Russian boy. Latinos population will overrun Americans by birth in the near future anyway. I do not see any American-Latinos trying to adopt foreign child- they make their own.