Russia may soon formally end U.S. adoptions

[Kshasty]

Russia will formally end adoptions of Russian children by foreigners if the U.S. shelves a bilateral child adoption agreement, a Russian child ombudsman has said.

Russia is one of the largest sources of adoptions for U.S. families, accounting for about 10% of foreign adoptions, but the issue has become controversial in recent years following several incidents involving the mistreatment of Russian children in the United States.

"If the American side delays a decision to sign the treaty, then we will probably raise the issue of ending international adoptions," Children's Rights Commissioner Pavel Astakhov said on Thursday.

Two rounds of Russian-U.S. talks on the inter-governmental adoption agreement were held on April 29 and May 12-14.

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20100521/159096685.html

[treestar]

1. Are they claiming most of the children are mistreated

Most of them probably get a good home, and why prejudice future children from that?

[RC]

3. The way the United States is going, we will be putting our children up for adoption

to give them a better home.

[Karia]

4. Media emphasis is on evil adoptive parents or evil adopted kids

These are exceptions, not at all typical. Most adoptive families are loving and well-adjusted, but that would be a "boring" story.

[FreakinDJ]

5. Some lady got tired of her's - pinned a note on her and stuck her on a plane

"Return to Sender" or some thing like that

[Kshasty]

7. exactly

the story started with that
the boy was told he's going on adventure tour

i can imagine how he scared he was

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

2. Children are pawns in this game

I wonder how they're treated if they stay in a Russian orphanage.

[Tailormyst]

6. That's probably not a bad thing

I say that as an adoptee. Often times when people adopt from certain countries they are not given a complete picture of the child's life and potential unfixable problems. Not everyone is equipped to handle the after effects of the formative years being spent in an orphanage with very little care.