In the US, looking for a way out after the adoption in Russia of "the law of Dima Yakovlev"
The unanimous democratic indignation was met by the American legislators “curtsy” of the Russian lawmakers, who decided to respond to the sensational “Magnitsky act” with the no less sensational “Dima Yakovlev law”. In a rare unanimous rush, congressmen representing the two opposing parties voted "FOR" support condemning the decision of the Russian authorities to prohibit American citizens of the initiative of Senators Mary Landrieu (State of Louisiana) and Roy Blunt (Missouri) from adopting American children to the adoption of Russian citizens. Landrieu and Blunt in the Senate have announced that they know about 740 thousands of Russian children who are deprived of parental care. Such data were received by US senators from a special UN unit called the Children's Fund. At the same time, according to the Russian social protection services, in the orphanages of the Russian Federation there are no more than 110 thousands of children. Such a numerical dissonance made US senators to be deep in their senses and adopt a kind of resolution condemning the Russian ban on US adoption. They say that now Russia will do without American adoptive parents. At the same time, the senators themselves indicate that in just 2011 a year, about 3,4 thousands of Russian orphans were adopted by foreign citizens (in the aggregate).
The US parliamentarians also became indignant on the grounds that they had received information from Russia that Moscow was going to suspend American adoption even for those orphans who were to be taken to America in the near future. According to the updated data presented by Pavel Astakhov, such children are in Russia today 52. In the United States, information was spread that the highest authorities of Russia almost under fear of dismissal obliged the local authorities to urgently resettle the children who were going to be adopted by the Americans, by family in those regions in which these children were in orphanages. Such information has not yet been confirmed, but it has already made a lot of noise both in Russia and in the United States.
After the adoption of the condemning resolution, Senator Blunt and another 15 of his colleagues, concerned about the state of social protection in the Russian Federation, decided to send a letter to Vladimir Putin. In a letter to Blunt, associates express the hope that Putin will not sign a law banning American adoption of Russian children, and also describe the "positive" situation with the adoption of children from the Russian Federation by American citizens. But Putin, as you know, signed the law, and Mr Blunt's letter, apparently, printed out and hung it in his office frame, as a reminder of the burning desire of American lawmakers to decide the fate of Russian children.
The “positive” situation with adoptions of Russian orphans again manifested itself “in all its glory” in the United States just a few days ago. 7 January 2013 in Prince William County, Virginia, is undergoing a lawsuit against Matt and Amy Sweeney, who are accused of mistreatment of Russian adopted child Daniel Alexander, born Daniel Kruchin. The boy, under cover of night, escaped from Sweeney's house and ran to his neighbors for help. Neighbors saw grazes on the face of a child, and on the limbs of an eight-year-old Daniel - numerous bruises. Subsequently, it turned out that the boy was subjected to systematic beatings in the Sweeney family, which belongs to one of the local religious movements. It is reported that Sweeney’s spouses, through beatings and torture, could force a child to discipline using dubious methods, which are becoming common in the United States with regard to so-called “difficult” children.
The first court hearing is unlikely to decide the fate of sadistic spouses, but the fact that the local judge released them from the arrest for hardly an impressive by US standards bail in 40 thousand dollars suggests that, most likely, these Sweeney get off with the usual fine instead of actual imprisonment ...
Daniel Kruchin was taken for adoption by an American couple with many children back in 2006 in Tula. Today, the boy is under the care of Virginia’s social services.
While the senators condemned, in unison, the “Dima Yakovlev law” adopted in Russia, one of the American legislators had already matured an alternative idea about what families in the United States, who by all means want to adopt a foreign child, do. There is information about the adoption of the bill, which allows Americans to adopt children from North Korea. But if today “the law of Dima Yakovlev” is spoken of as a very ambiguous manifestation of legislative activity, then what can we say about the new American initiative ... It turns out that the US Senate assumes so much that it can or will not allow the adoption of its citizens from other states. What's this? - a new unique manifestation of politicized ethics or a banal desire to show oneself the real arbiters of human destinies? .. After all, it turns out that before the beginning of 2013 of the year and before the appearance of the Russian “Dima Yakovlev law”, parliamentarians in the United States forbade their fellow countrymen to thus violating the right to freedom of choice ... Not only did they first prohibit, and then suddenly decided to allow, when the roasted rooster pecked at the soft spot, so also the North Koreans themselves, apparently asking one of Washington's "partners" are not going to. And why? .. Suppose, they say, this will be our great democratic gift for Pyongyang, and Kim Jong-un bows to his feet for being able in the United States to grant a landmark permission to adopt North Korean children. And neither the fact of how many orphans in the DPRK, nor of whether they need external adoption, nor how the official authorities are looking at this, Washington obviously does not have ...
It is such a global democracy in the face of the most important democratic state in the world ... The senators themselves declare that Russia politicizes the problem of motherhood and childhood, and then they themselves pass a law that steps over every conceivable moral framework, making it clear to everyone that only solutions are stars The striped parliament in this world are the only correct and indisputable, even if they ignore the position of individuals, communities, and even entire states.
In this regard, it should be noted that, with all the external politicization of the “Dima Yakovlev law”, for Russian children deprived of parental care, he can play a positive role. At least, I want to hope so. Obviously, it is stupid to talk about the development of the state as long as we ourselves, instead of creating the necessary conditions for the development of children left without parental care, send these children "out of harm's way" - abroad, thus trying to solve the problem . However, this problem is so large-scale that it is absolutely thoughtless to solve it using the “no person - no problem” method.
Of course, you can create ideal conditions in orphanages and rehabilitation centers, you can develop a social security base for Russian orphans, you can invest in the development of guardianship agencies, but this is not the final way out. The main thing is for Russian families to create conditions under which they would annually take care of not 7,5 thousand orphans, but much more. At the same time, it is also necessary to create conditions under which the interests of the Russian family in the adoption of a baby were not infringed upon by the officials responsible for the “fullness” and “effectiveness” of orphanages. But we have a lot of people who want to go up for adoption, except that there are fewer officials who are ready to hand over a child to the adoptive parents among the leaders of the same orphanages, and not to “sell” the baby at favorable rates, not like less ... And that Russians “do not want to take children for adoption” are often, to put it mildly, far from reality.
The US parliamentarians also became indignant on the grounds that they had received information from Russia that Moscow was going to suspend American adoption even for those orphans who were to be taken to America in the near future. According to the updated data presented by Pavel Astakhov, such children are in Russia today 52. In the United States, information was spread that the highest authorities of Russia almost under fear of dismissal obliged the local authorities to urgently resettle the children who were going to be adopted by the Americans, by family in those regions in which these children were in orphanages. Such information has not yet been confirmed, but it has already made a lot of noise both in Russia and in the United States.
After the adoption of the condemning resolution, Senator Blunt and another 15 of his colleagues, concerned about the state of social protection in the Russian Federation, decided to send a letter to Vladimir Putin. In a letter to Blunt, associates express the hope that Putin will not sign a law banning American adoption of Russian children, and also describe the "positive" situation with the adoption of children from the Russian Federation by American citizens. But Putin, as you know, signed the law, and Mr Blunt's letter, apparently, printed out and hung it in his office frame, as a reminder of the burning desire of American lawmakers to decide the fate of Russian children.
The “positive” situation with adoptions of Russian orphans again manifested itself “in all its glory” in the United States just a few days ago. 7 January 2013 in Prince William County, Virginia, is undergoing a lawsuit against Matt and Amy Sweeney, who are accused of mistreatment of Russian adopted child Daniel Alexander, born Daniel Kruchin. The boy, under cover of night, escaped from Sweeney's house and ran to his neighbors for help. Neighbors saw grazes on the face of a child, and on the limbs of an eight-year-old Daniel - numerous bruises. Subsequently, it turned out that the boy was subjected to systematic beatings in the Sweeney family, which belongs to one of the local religious movements. It is reported that Sweeney’s spouses, through beatings and torture, could force a child to discipline using dubious methods, which are becoming common in the United States with regard to so-called “difficult” children.
The first court hearing is unlikely to decide the fate of sadistic spouses, but the fact that the local judge released them from the arrest for hardly an impressive by US standards bail in 40 thousand dollars suggests that, most likely, these Sweeney get off with the usual fine instead of actual imprisonment ...
Daniel Kruchin was taken for adoption by an American couple with many children back in 2006 in Tula. Today, the boy is under the care of Virginia’s social services.
While the senators condemned, in unison, the “Dima Yakovlev law” adopted in Russia, one of the American legislators had already matured an alternative idea about what families in the United States, who by all means want to adopt a foreign child, do. There is information about the adoption of the bill, which allows Americans to adopt children from North Korea. But if today “the law of Dima Yakovlev” is spoken of as a very ambiguous manifestation of legislative activity, then what can we say about the new American initiative ... It turns out that the US Senate assumes so much that it can or will not allow the adoption of its citizens from other states. What's this? - a new unique manifestation of politicized ethics or a banal desire to show oneself the real arbiters of human destinies? .. After all, it turns out that before the beginning of 2013 of the year and before the appearance of the Russian “Dima Yakovlev law”, parliamentarians in the United States forbade their fellow countrymen to thus violating the right to freedom of choice ... Not only did they first prohibit, and then suddenly decided to allow, when the roasted rooster pecked at the soft spot, so also the North Koreans themselves, apparently asking one of Washington's "partners" are not going to. And why? .. Suppose, they say, this will be our great democratic gift for Pyongyang, and Kim Jong-un bows to his feet for being able in the United States to grant a landmark permission to adopt North Korean children. And neither the fact of how many orphans in the DPRK, nor of whether they need external adoption, nor how the official authorities are looking at this, Washington obviously does not have ...
It is such a global democracy in the face of the most important democratic state in the world ... The senators themselves declare that Russia politicizes the problem of motherhood and childhood, and then they themselves pass a law that steps over every conceivable moral framework, making it clear to everyone that only solutions are stars The striped parliament in this world are the only correct and indisputable, even if they ignore the position of individuals, communities, and even entire states.
In this regard, it should be noted that, with all the external politicization of the “Dima Yakovlev law”, for Russian children deprived of parental care, he can play a positive role. At least, I want to hope so. Obviously, it is stupid to talk about the development of the state as long as we ourselves, instead of creating the necessary conditions for the development of children left without parental care, send these children "out of harm's way" - abroad, thus trying to solve the problem . However, this problem is so large-scale that it is absolutely thoughtless to solve it using the “no person - no problem” method.
Of course, you can create ideal conditions in orphanages and rehabilitation centers, you can develop a social security base for Russian orphans, you can invest in the development of guardianship agencies, but this is not the final way out. The main thing is for Russian families to create conditions under which they would annually take care of not 7,5 thousand orphans, but much more. At the same time, it is also necessary to create conditions under which the interests of the Russian family in the adoption of a baby were not infringed upon by the officials responsible for the “fullness” and “effectiveness” of orphanages. But we have a lot of people who want to go up for adoption, except that there are fewer officials who are ready to hand over a child to the adoptive parents among the leaders of the same orphanages, and not to “sell” the baby at favorable rates, not like less ... And that Russians “do not want to take children for adoption” are often, to put it mildly, far from reality.
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