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Shocking. Absolutely shocking.



Daily Mail: Fury as U.S. woman adopts Russian boy, 7, then sends him back alone with note saying: 'I don't want him anymore'

I mean really. Even if he had issues, there are resources available in the U.S. to deal with that. And it's shocking that USCIS and United Airlines just sorta stood around while he was basically spirited out of the country.

wow, that is just awful. Who does that????

Very low budget. :mad:

I saw this on the news last night. Terrible, but it doesn't shock me anymore. Not any more than I'm shocked when parents leave the baby in the stroller outside Space Mountain while they get in line.

Appalling that this woman is also being called a "nurse"
She may lose her license over this one. Maybe even will lose custody of her biological son-seems like she may be the one with mental issues.

guestjockey wrote:i saw this on the news last night. Terrible, but it doesn't shock me anymore. Not any more than i'm shocked when parents leave the baby in the stroller outside space mountain while they get in line.

what?????????????????????

That is just horrible! :(

After reading this story on a few different sites I have to say the news always blows things out of proportion.

The headline "Fury as U.S. woman adopts Russian boy, 7, then sends him back alone with note saying: 'I don't want him anymore'" sounds awful don't it?

Lets look deeper.
"...The child is mentally unstable. He is violent... For the safety of my family I no longer wish to parent this child."

Sounds to me like the child was more then just in need of special meds to calm him down. I would also bet the mother tired to contact the adoption agency and try to work out an arrangement to have the child placed in another home. We all know how this world really works. Let's not be so quick to pass judgment on someone without knowing all the facts. For all we know, the orphanage did lie about the child's behavior just to get him out of the orphanage.

The only thing I do not agree with about this situation is lying to the child and sending him off alone (thought 7 years old is not too young really).


Just my $.02

We have a friend who thought she couldn't have any more kids, so she started the process and ended up getting a little girl, during the same time she got pregnant. So, she has two adorable girls the same age. She had the chance to adopt the girls sister as well, they got her, brought her home and she was a terror. It got to the point it was affecting everyone, so they had to send her back. They were heartbroken, it was not easy.

Some kids are like that--they don't adapt well to new situations, like a family when they're used to the humdrum, regimented life of an orphanage or foster care situation. Or they just have issues--they are traumatized from being without parents, or not being "normal" by not having a real family.

I once read of a brother and sister who were orphaned during the London Blitz, and they were in an orphanage before being adopted. The boy, about a year or two older than his sister, was cheerful and well-adjusted; the girl kept rubbing her eyes, but never cried. She was depressed and sad. Months later, she revealed why she kept rubbing her eyes: in the orphanage, a well-meaning but harsh matron told her to stop crying, to accept the fact that her parents were dead and weren't coming back. She was told crying wouldn't bring Mum and Dad back, so she had to stop and was threatened with punishment if she was caught crying. To keep from crying she rubbed her eyes almost constantly. Her adoptive parents were quite sympathetic and told her to go ahead and cry, it was okay to grieve and mourn. Her brother had accepted his loss and moved on, but she hadn't. After making use of her permitted grief period, the sister was able to move on as well. I think the boy was 6 and his sister was 4.

Edgar Allan Poe was adopted, and he didn't get along with his adoptive father, who was a friend of his parents. He became an alcoholic and a ne'er-do-well just to embarrass his adoptive father. Genius poet and writer, but unfortunately self-destructive.