This probably isn't the best time for me to blog because I'm stuck somewhere between anger and sorrow. You see, I have been given the gift of this beautiful little girl as my daughter, and as much as I rejoice in that, it brings me great sorrow to know there are children who will likely never be with forever families. Some of these kids, I have met, played with, loved on.
Igor
Katya
Vika
Sasha
Alyosha
You are not forgotten!
You may not mean anything to your government, but you do to me, and to Polina. We talk about you. We name dolls after you. I cry for you in private.
You are not forgotten!
And then there's the children on the list of approximately 250 that was provided for the Russian Children's Rights Ombudsman Pavel Astakhov. What an oxymoron that is. Russian Children's Rights??? The only children in Russia that have rights are those of the privileged, like Mr. Astakhov himself. But then again, his kids and wife live in France because Russia isn't good enough for them...oxymoron.
Speaking of moron....well....I'll just let you fill that in yourself.
Back on-topic.
Astakhov has said that no children will leave to America, not even those that have been introduced to American couples as their parents and been told they are coming to take them home. Those kids don't care where their families live, just that they have families. Well, they *had* families until the Russian government took them away. Now those children feel abandoned by two families. Apparently the Russian government either doesn't understand what that does to these children, or they don't care.
I go for the latter. You see, this really is not about the kids. It's about politics. God forbid Russia let these children go home to their families at the risk of appearing weak.
No Russian government, you don't look weak. In fact, you have shown the work how wicked, evil, viscous you choose to be.
Half of these children have been returned to their biological families or placed in foster homes you say. FANTASTIC. Only, correct me if I misunderstand, but you already revoked the rights of the biological family or these children never would have been available for adoption to begin with. And what about the other half. And what about the kids who aren't on the list? Do you have hundreds of thousands of homes to place these kids into? And what about the kids who need medical care they won't get there, like my Polina. What about them? What about
Igor
Katya
Vika
Sasha
Alyosha
What about them?
You don't care. They don't matter. That must be the case because there is no other reason you would be causing the emotional pain you are putting these kids through by keeping them from their families. You would be willing to find a solution to let your children find homes and healthcare they need. You wouldn't leave them in your neglectful and abusive orphanages as recently demonstrated through videos and deaths.
There's simply no other explanation than you don't care and they don't matter to you.
Now they speak of one million roubles (about 30,5 thousand USD) for russian adopters of disabled children. They are sure everything is being buying and selling...
ReplyDelete100,000, not a million. It's not a huge sum, if the child needs medical treatment. And it's a one-time payment.
DeleteThank you!!!! Astakhov - scoundrel
ReplyDeleteSergey. Moscow
Astakhov is lying of course. No surprise here.
ReplyDeleteA few of those 250 children did go to Russian families, one of them just yesterday (Marat). As far as I know there were not adopted, more like fostered (although Russian foster family is considered permanent placement unless biological parents show up or the foster parents themselves adopt this child).
A couple was adopted to Canada and France.
Maybe a few returned to bio families.
No, the Russian government doesn't care.
I had to leave my son in the care of my mother in Russia, and although he is not in an institution, it pains me to know that I will not be able to bring him home before another 2 or 3 years pass. He is not in an institution, he has a caring grandma, but he is getting discriminated against and emotionally abused everywhere outside the home and a tight circle of close friends - at school that threatens to expel him for his special needs, store, bank, doctor's.
It's not like that everywhere in Russia, but certainly a lot.
And if they treat a special needs child with a family this way, what can we expect when it comes to children with no family, no grandma to protect them. Those children are trash in the eyes of the government.
God Bless you, Kendra!
ReplyDeleteA number of them have been adopted by European families. At least 3 that I know of have been adopted to Italy, the others were adopted to France, Portugal, Germany, Spain and Ireland. I don't know if Russia is prioritizing them because they were supposed to be adopted by American families or because Russia feels that there will be fewer questions and fewer American families pushing to end the ban if those children are no longer available.
ReplyDeleteYes, it's good that the children are finding homes, including children with special needs. 3 of the children adopted were HIV+, 2 had CP. There were also older children adopted as well and sibling groups. At the same time it's heartbreaking for the families who had met them and considered them their children who have now lost them forever.
Hopefully at some point adoptions will re-open to American families. It's just heartbreaking to know that those families who are fighting so hard to end the ban won't be able to bring their children home. Hopefully their fight will allow other families to bring children home.
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ReplyDeleteAnd why is no one discussing the sex rings in Russia that traffic VERY young children - some even toddlers? Why doesn't Russia stop this if it cares so much about the children? Is is a known fact that many of the children in these rings were kidnapped from orphanages! And there are children in the orphanages who were "rescued" from these pornography rings. And many of these "rescued" children are put up for adoption and their "history" is never given to the adoptive parents. Then Russia criticizes American parents when these children cannot function in society. Russia BLAMES these parents for the disfunctioning of these poor children who were so terribly violated while in Russia! It disgusts me how Putin and his official can sit on their high horses and act like they have done NOTHING wrong!
ReplyDeleteWell it nice you want to help a kid have a family,however, its an obscene amount of money to get a kid from a wealthy country like Russia. They havr enough money to take care of their own, why did you not adopt a USA kid?
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