Comments on: Is Angelina Jolie sweet- talking Vladimir Putin about Russia’s new adoption laws?

By: Trek Girl

Trek Girl — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 10:31:38 +0000

She gets the “boxy” figure from her father. I think it’s pretty cute how much her and James Haven’s figures are like his.

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By: Leah

Leah — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 04:04:47 +0000

I find this whole situation to be terrible. I follow a lot of the Down Syndrome community as they go through adoptions on Russia. Children with disabilities have a tendency to be abandoned and are hardly ever adopted. Once they hit 4, they’re sent to adult homes and hardly given any care. It’s heartbreaking. So many families are in the middle of adopting these kids and aren’t even sure they’ll ever be able to bring them home.

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By: lisa2

lisa2 — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 04:03:40 +0000

Always interesting how people like you work so hard to find something negative.

I have never seen a quote from anyone that has ever met Angelina to say she thought she was better then anyone. She has never had a diva attitude on any set. Never had anyone that has met her in person to say anything negative. In fact they go on and on about how down to earth she is. How sweet. Most rave on ad on about the experience.

so you perception is yours. But I go by people that have actually encountered her. AND I also note that the people that don’t like her tend to believer tabloid stories. I go by real accounts.

And she looks so beautiful in that red dress. But then she is beautiful so she would look gorgeous in anything.

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By: mystified

mystified — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 02:38:52 +0000

I don’t have much sympathy for the woman who sent her son back. I’m embarrassed to say that she and I are from the same state. We had two very good local adoption agencies, but she used an out of state one. I wonder why? I suspect that she may have been rejected by other agencies. My husband and I had to undergo very thorough background checks — finger prints, medical records, police reports etc. Our agency also made sure that we understood that there maybe unforeseen medical and emotional problems and made us aware of local resources. Yet this “mother” never even took her son to the doctor, much less a specialist before deciding to wash her hands of him.

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By: mystified

mystified — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 02:18:20 +0000

Another Nina: I appreciate your thoughtful response. You’ve given me a lot of food for thought. Hope I wasn’t being too touchy.

I worry very much about the fate of those poor orphans and all orphans around the world. I hope and pray that they all find loving homes and that I become the best parent that I can be to the one I have.

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By: lindy loo

lindy loo — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 02:09:20 +0000

She has truly perfected the haughty, “I’m better than everyone else on the planet” look.

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By: another nina

another nina — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 20:35:19 +0000

Yes, that’s a good synopsis of the situation.
On top of that, in 90s, there were plenty of kids, whose parent(s) were young and poor and could not afford to take care of kid.
Right now, there is a very high percentage of kids with anti-social parents i.e. alcohol/drug-dependent or parents serving time in prisons. Those kids have inherited all sorts of syndromes.

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By: Jae

Jae — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 13:45:32 +0000

“WTF do you know about ALL Russians?”

I know what being blonde, having Slavic features and a second name ‘Ivanova’ means in Russia.

Tell me, how often do Russians adopt healthy, yes, healthy, Tajik kids? Healthy Tatar kids? Healthy Caucasian kids, Caucasian not in the way they mean it in the US, but Caucasian in the way we mean it in Russia?

Stop with the ‘they want Slavic too!” bulls*t, please. Slavic is not Anglo-Saxon, it doesn’t mean nearly as much in the world as it does in Russia. Despite our collective delusions we are not considered a higher race anywhere but in Mother Russia.

Do you actually realize what you are saying?
That the Russians will now be able to adopt “healthy Slavic”, while they couldn’t before?
You realize that if you are right, that means, that while those precious healthy Slavic kids were able to find homes before and will still be able to find them now, the chances of the rest have evaporated: those that might have considered them before as a low-rate second option will now surely go for “healthy Slavic”? That the disabled and Non-Slavic kids are now wanted even less than they were before? And that somehow is a good thing?
Yeah… that is a ‘let them rot!’

Russian people, whose willingness to adopt disappeared when they realize that they can’t get ‘healthy Slavic”? Yeah, f*ck those guys. I don’t see how making life easier for those sh*theads at the expense of the children is a good thing.

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By: mystified

mystified — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 12:02:47 +0000

Another thing the adoption agency told us is that since we didn’t specify the sex off our child, we would almost certainly get a boy (which we did) . Apparently most Russians want to adopt girls unlike in most other countries.

Joe: You make it seem as is people who want to adopt infants are evil or something. [Children that foreigners adopt would have to be at leasst 6 months because they have to have been abandoned for 6 months to be considered adoptable.]

My husband and I are not rich. We adopted our son at 18 months. Even though he was supposedly healthy we incurred some medical expenses for therapy and for his extremely poor teeth (most likely due to poor prenatal nutrition) .

Older children are likely to require more resources. Maybe if we had had Jolie-Pitt resources we could have adopted child with greater needs. Part of being a good adoptive parent is knowing how much you can take on.

Joe, since you seem to like to judge others, why don’t you criticize those who spend their resources on big houses, nice cars and exotic vacations and hobbies instead of adopting any needy children?

Your home is, of course full of older adopted children with all sorts of multiple disabilies. Right?

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By: another nina

another nina — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 10:38:46 +0000

It’s a very painful topic, mystified, and Russians are most grateful to those who adopted their kids when they could not do it themselves. They are grateful and they are ashamed, too – let it be clear. But the situation has changed dramatically over the past 16 years.

First of all, local society is richer now and they can AFFORD to adopt nowadays; secondly, adoption has become a regular action while prior to that it was an outstanding event;
thirdly – and most importantly — right now the generation of 90s has reached a child-bearing age. And the generation of 90s is the smallest among the decade’s population since 2nd world war. (plus their parents’ parents were born during the war as well, so there is a gap there as well.) Bottom line, there are not enough (healthy) kids for locals. And those locals cannot afford to adopt a kid from another country. That’s it.

“The problem with Russian people adopting is that they all want a healthy Slavic kid not older the a year.

The rest however?
Let them rot alive. Better that than go to the US, right?”

Please stop with this political bs, Jae. WTF do you know about ALL Russians? And yes, many Americans prefer to adopt Slavic looking pretty kids rather than a kid with disability, which Russians can adopt themselves. What’s to argue about?

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