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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 538998" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>This was a major story in the news for quite a while when it happened but I don't remember all the specifics now. It created a furor and became a bit of an "international incident" when she sent the child back to Russia,all by himself I believe! Ordinarily in adoptions there is a very rigorous screening process that takes place. It is similar to the screening that I went through when I was going to become a foster parent - months of training, background checks, home studies, recommendations, etc. But if this was some independent agency that places foreign children with adoptive families, they may not always follow the same procedures. It would be very rare if an older child who had never lived in a family, only in an institution in a foreign country, could blend seamlessly in to a new family in a different country and have no difficulties. Usually to succeed, these families need lots of professional guidance and intervention and follow-up by the agency. And apparently that didn't happen in this case. From what they said, there was no monitoring or follow-up by the agency. And the woman did not seek out any kind of professional help for this child to make the adjustment - no interventions at all. There was lots of help available to her but she didn't take advantage of it. She just put the little guy on a plane back to Russia - by himself - saying that he was too difficult for her to handle!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 538998, member: 1883"] This was a major story in the news for quite a while when it happened but I don't remember all the specifics now. It created a furor and became a bit of an "international incident" when she sent the child back to Russia,all by himself I believe! Ordinarily in adoptions there is a very rigorous screening process that takes place. It is similar to the screening that I went through when I was going to become a foster parent - months of training, background checks, home studies, recommendations, etc. But if this was some independent agency that places foreign children with adoptive families, they may not always follow the same procedures. It would be very rare if an older child who had never lived in a family, only in an institution in a foreign country, could blend seamlessly in to a new family in a different country and have no difficulties. Usually to succeed, these families need lots of professional guidance and intervention and follow-up by the agency. And apparently that didn't happen in this case. From what they said, there was no monitoring or follow-up by the agency. And the woman did not seek out any kind of professional help for this child to make the adjustment - no interventions at all. There was lots of help available to her but she didn't take advantage of it. She just put the little guy on a plane back to Russia - by himself - saying that he was too difficult for her to handle! [/QUOTE]
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