Russia wants foreigners tested before adoptions

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http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5937541&cKey=1121174459000

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Foreigners adopting Russian children should be required to have parenting lessons and psychological tests, following the murder of an adopted Russian child in the United States, a ministry said on Tuesday.

Adoption agencies welcomed the call, saying tighter regulation would prevent children being adopted through shady intermediaries that send them to unqualified parents.

The Education Ministry, which oversees the adoption of thousands of Russian children by foreigners every ear, was responding to the murder this month in Virginia of a two-year-old girl from Russia.

Her adoptive mother Peggy Sue Hilt was charged last week with the killing.

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1. It ain't just murders. Remember that little girl -her

pictures were posted on the net? She was adopted from Russia by single guy who made child porn using her.
I would say, something got to be done before allowing people like this to adopt russian (and other) children.

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2. 12 adopted children from Russia killed in U.S.

Ustinov's office told IPS that he put forward this initiative in response to reports about "rising rates of violence against children adopted by foreign citizens."

"An official report suggests that 13 adopted children from Russia have been killed by foreign citizens over the past few years. Of this figure, 12 incidents have taken place in the United States. And these are only official figures," a spokesman said.

http://www.ipsnews.org/news.asp?idnews=29280


Romania banned most foreign adoptions:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3810425.stm

So has Indonesia:
http://iafrica.com/news/worldnews/402173.htm