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.
# posted by lunas55 @ 12:48 PM 
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Hi Lunas55!
I also adopted a girl two years ago and, despite I consider my adoption process as a fortunate one, I must recognize the process can be a little cruel. I too had 24 hours to decide about adopting my daughter (Russian medical reports usually include illness that the kid doesn´t have just only too acelerate the process). In my case it wasn´t a difficult decission because I previously had the medical report and I could verify with a pediatrician that my daughter was OK but in some other cases it is a difficult situation because you don´t have a previous medical report or you don´t have any doctor to ask for. Moreover my daughter was only 15 months old so no one asked her if she wanted to live with us but it has to be a difficult question for a teenager.
I also adopted a girl two years ago and, despite I consider my adoption process as a fortunate one, I must recognize the process can be a little cruel. I too had 24 hours to decide about adopting my daughter (Russian medical reports usually include illness that the kid doesn´t have just only too acelerate the process). In my case it wasn´t a difficult decission because I previously had the medical report and I could verify with a pediatrician that my daughter was OK but in some other cases it is a difficult situation because you don´t have a previous medical report or you don´t have any doctor to ask for. Moreover my daughter was only 15 months old so no one asked her if she wanted to live with us but it has to be a difficult question for a teenager.
Nice and thoughtful contribution!!
Pay attention to the following:
-DOCUMENTARY (YOU MAKE THE MISTAKE MORE THAN ONCE!!)
-specially waked up my attention.
(remeber wake is an irregular verb. However here you mean
CALLED MY ATTENTION
-her father TOOK care of her and her brothers and sisters, but unfortunately the father DIED.
-he judge asked Lara if she WANTED to live (you make the mistake twice)
Pay attention to the following:
-DOCUMENTARY (YOU MAKE THE MISTAKE MORE THAN ONCE!!)
-specially waked up my attention.
(remeber wake is an irregular verb. However here you mean
CALLED MY ATTENTION
-her father TOOK care of her and her brothers and sisters, but unfortunately the father DIED.
-he judge asked Lara if she WANTED to live (you make the mistake twice)
# posted by 
: 04 May, 2007 03:50
: 04 May, 2007 03:50
I don't know much about processes of adoption and the problems the children have to adapt to a new family, country, languaje...But I remember when a classmate explained to us her experience and it seemed very complicated. For me it was so emotional...
Thanks for your comments but this has come to an end ... ohhh what a pity!!
An do now it's time to know how are you? we are going to meet in Sitges hehe
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An do now it's time to know how are you? we are going to meet in Sitges hehe
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