15 April 2010

Maybe we'll adopt some of our own, now

The BBC has an article about a halt to Russian adoptions:
US adoptions of Russian children have been halted, days after a Russian boy was rejected by his adoptive mother in the American state of Tennessee. The Russian foreign ministry said the move would apply until a bilateral adoption agreement could be signed.
An international outcry erupted last week when the US mother sent her seven-year-old Russian boy unaccompanied on a plane to Moscow. She sent a note with him saying the boy had psychological issues. Torry Hansen said she no longer wanted to keep the boy as she felt she had been misled by his Russian orphanage.
The Russians are furious that no charges have been filed against the 33-year-old nurse. The US state department is arranging for a high-level delegation to visit Moscow next week to discuss the incident and the possibility of a bilateral adoption agreement.
Russian foreign ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko told a television briefing: "Russia believes only such an agreement… will ensure that recent tragedies in the United States will not be repeated." Moscow has urged Washington in the past to sign such a formal pact, but the US has said an international accord, the Hague Convention, would be enough once Russia had ratified it.
Thousands of American would-be adoptive parents have been petitioning leaders of the Russian and US presidents to prevent the suspension. Russian lawmakers have previously urged the freezing of American adoptions after other alleged cases of Russian children being mistreated. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has called the most recent incident "the last straw". More than 1,800 Russian children were adopted in the United States last year, according to Russia's health and education ministry.
Rico says it's not like we don't have enough kids who want a good home. (Oh, yeah, they're all black, and the Russian kids are white. Forgot, sorry...)

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