Adoptive parents say prospective parents need to know more about the risks of international adoptions, where children may have been abused, exposed to alcohol prenatally or lingered in institutions. Both Skeirik and Cox -- strong advocates for adoption -- say more education is needed for the American families who adopt more than 20, international children each year. Adam Pertman, executive director of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute , agrees that all agencies, institutions and countries involved in adoption need to be more forthcoming with information about children.
He said support is needed for all families -- those with biological, foster and adoptive children. Pertman said parents looking to international adoption need to "know what you are getting in to -- and not in a negative way. The story of Justin Hansen is "a cautionary tale -- not about adoption, but about learning how to take care of the kids you have.
For Debbie Bettiol, a year-old former nurse from Salem, Ore. She adopted her month-old daughter Fanica from a Romanian hospital in Besides being small for her age, Fanica had night terrors and severe attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autistic tendencies. She was later diagnosed with a brain injury and mental retardation.
If she got loose from you in public, she would just run. You had to go catch her because she wouldn't stop. She also stripped off all her clothes all the time. Bettiol tried medicines, homeopathic treatment, special camps and adult foster care. But nothing worked. Bettiol, a single mother, already had four children and had a sixth after the adoption and the situation got worse. When Fanica went to high school she threatened to kill her mother and siblings.
She was hospitalized, then placed in a nearby treatment center. Now 20, Fanica is doing well in a more structured environment. She has refused to talk to investigators since April when she sent Artem, then known as Justin Hansen, alone on the ten-hour flight with a backpack full of candy and coloring pencils. Although technically an orphanage, it provides a home and family environment to children who have lost hope of being adopted. Children aged from seven to 16 are watched over at the centre by a woman who also doubles as a teacher.
Mr Asilyev said Artem 'tries to forget about his life in the States', and that was the reason why the orphanage was not allowing the media to see him. He added that he gets along well with other children and has almost forgotten English, preferring not to speak it. Torry Hansen's mother Nancy recently said she did not believe Artem was traumatized by being sent home alone on the flight to Russia. Mrs Hansen said: 'All I can say he was very happy when he was on the plane.
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Boyce said it would be difficult to substantiate claims by Russian officials that the mother mistreated the child. The boy, who was adopted in September from the town of Partizansk in eastern Russia, arrived in Moscow on a United Airlines flight on Thursday from Washington, with a written note from Hansen.
The note said: "This child is mentally unstable. He is violent and has severe psychopathic issues. I was lied to and misled by the Russian orphanage workers and director regarding his mental stability and other issues After giving my best to this child, I am sorry to say that for the safety of my family, friends, and myself, I no longer wish to parent this child.
Anna Orlova, a spokeswoman for the Kremlin's Children Rights Commissioner, said she visited the boy and he told her that his mother was "bad", "did not love him" and used to pull his hair. Russia's foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, called Hansen's actions "the last straw" in a string of US adoptions gone wrong, including three in which Russian children had died.
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