Mom Abandons Son

From Yahoo News:
"Russia furious over adopted boy sent back from US"

This is just plain wrong. No matter what stress or trouble the boy was giving his adopted mom this is not how you solve the problem. You do not simply put a kid on a plane and have a stranger pick the kid up at the airport and deliver him to an address to leave him there. There are legal procedures on how to adopt a child from Russia and I'm sure there is a legal procedure on how to un-adopt the child (I know that's not really a word.)

Because of this case and another one where an American woman in Virginia left her Russian child in a car in 90 degree heat and the child died the Russian Government has stopped all adoptions to the United States.

Russia is not innocent in all this. No one questions the over-crowded, dirty conditions of the orphanages in Russia or how many agencies within Russia hide the children's mental, physical (or both) from the adopted parents. There is an epidemic in Russia of people giving up there children because they can't afford them or do not want them. All of these things should be checked before any adoptions start again.

The US Government should also step in and prevent the death, abuse or abandonment of any adopted children (from Russia and elsewhere.)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100409/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_adopted_boy