Let’s Get Real: Not-Healthy International Adoptees

By on 9-07-2011 in Adoption Preparation, Disruption/Dissolution, Justin Hansen, Let's Get Real, Russia

Let’s Get Real: Not-Healthy International Adoptees

Pravda published a follow-up to three cases of children returned to Russia Victims of adoption: Saved and forgotten [Pravda 9/6/11 by Ksenia Obraztsova] including Justin Hansen.

We accept that prospective adoptive parents are not fully-prepared, disruptions are occuring more frequently, and that the actions taken upon these children were unacceptable, but Let’s Get Real…the two children who were returned by the parents in this story were not healthy as they were described in the adoptive process. You can’t address one aspect of reform without addressing the other at the same time–lies or known inaccuracies in a child’s history is not child-centered or acceptable.

“Denis Khokhryakov, 13, used to live in an orphanage in the Volgograd region. The new parents took the boy to the Dominican Republic. Employees of the orphanage believed that the boy was just fine in the new country. In 2008, the little boy was found in an orphanage of his new exotic home.

The boy found himself in the Dominican orphanage in 2005, after his foster parents left him in one of Dominican families. The new parents also refused from Denis. Last year, Denis returned to Russia.
His sad story could be heard on every TV and radio channel in the country. Everybody was sorry for the poor boy, but then, as it usually happens, everyone simply forgot about him.
A similar story took place to Artyom Saveliev[Justin Hansen]. His US foster mother put the boy in a plane and just sent him back to Russia as a bad purchase that did not fit. The woman only wrote the note in which she said that she no longer wanted to raise the child.”
Denis had two families that could not handle him.

“In actual fact, the two boys are now living in Moscow orphanages. Both of them learned Russian and enjoy communication with their peers. Artyom was having a very busy life during a year of his stay in Moscow. He went to school and learned to ride a bicycle and to roller-skate. “We call him the Sunny Boy.” He is very polite and affectionate,” the boy’s tutors said.

Denis is currently staying in the social orphan asylum for children and teenagers. “He is very sociable. We all communicate with him, just all of us. He is on good terms with older boys and girls too,” a pupil of the asylum said.”

Status: They communicate. Uh…huh. That is the best spin they can give to their conditions. Free Smiley Courtesy of www.millan.net

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