Monday, April 30, 2007
Adoption in Russia
Last week I watched on TV, a documentary about adoption in Russia.
Two Canadian families went to Russia in order to adopt two little girls. One of the adoptions specially called my attention.
Lara is a 7 years old child; she is the number 8 of 10 children. Her mother left her husband when she was 3 years old, her father took care of her and her brothers and sisters, but unfortunately the father died.
Lara was welcomed together with two of his brothers by a Russian Orphanage.
Now I’m going back to the Canadian family. In the documentary you can see, how Lara was adopted by this family. Lara and the parents had only 1 hour to know each other. After that a judge decides, if Lara can be adopted by this couple. I find very cruel the way the judge asked Lara if she wanted to live with this family. She was asked about her brothers. She had to take the decision, if she wanted to stay in the orphanage with her brothers or go with the couple.
Her answer was that she wanted to be adopted and when she become older she will come back and help her brothers. An innocent reply!
Another part of the documentary showed us the adaptation of Lara in Canada. The positive point of this story is that Lara is a nice and friendly girl, who learned the new language soon and made friends quickly.
Anyway to have a good impression of this story is that the Canadian parents decided to adopt her two brothers, too.
We don’t know if the process had success. We hope so.
Two Canadian families went to Russia in order to adopt two little girls. One of the adoptions specially called my attention.
Lara is a 7 years old child; she is the number 8 of 10 children. Her mother left her husband when she was 3 years old, her father took care of her and her brothers and sisters, but unfortunately the father died.
Lara was welcomed together with two of his brothers by a Russian Orphanage.
Now I’m going back to the Canadian family. In the documentary you can see, how Lara was adopted by this family. Lara and the parents had only 1 hour to know each other. After that a judge decides, if Lara can be adopted by this couple. I find very cruel the way the judge asked Lara if she wanted to live with this family. She was asked about her brothers. She had to take the decision, if she wanted to stay in the orphanage with her brothers or go with the couple.
Her answer was that she wanted to be adopted and when she become older she will come back and help her brothers. An innocent reply!
Another part of the documentary showed us the adaptation of Lara in Canada. The positive point of this story is that Lara is a nice and friendly girl, who learned the new language soon and made friends quickly.
Anyway to have a good impression of this story is that the Canadian parents decided to adopt her two brothers, too.
We don’t know if the process had success. We hope so.
