tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-316191265933534655.post7139405491527817912..comments2024-02-27T00:41:15.985-06:00Comments on AdoptionTalk: Ranch Becomes Focus for Russian Adoption Outragemalindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06233439015219192874noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-316191265933534655.post-80814880669049192312012-07-13T13:59:32.425-05:002012-07-13T13:59:32.425-05:00Gotta love the irony... they are being accused of ...Gotta love the irony... they are being accused of having poor security- yet the film crew couldn't get on property. Doesn't sound like poor security to me.-J.D. Humenayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14086704419701940067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-316191265933534655.post-51357814598563706402012-07-12T22:00:22.808-05:002012-07-12T22:00:22.808-05:00I agree with Lzzz.
Better than storming the gat...I agree with Lzzz. <br /><br />Better than storming the gates of this Montana ranch, why don't these Russian officials pay a surprise visit to one, two or a dozen of their own orphanages? There, they might see the first effects of institutionalization, the lack of care and lack of stimulation that can prevent some children from ever bonding or attaching to another person. And after they have witnessed some of the atrocities that I have seen (full disclosure: just on videotape, not in person), maybe they will begin to understand why some of their children are so damaged that they do not do well in families who desperately try and want to parent them.<br /><br />And then allow them into the gates of this Montana ranch where these troubled children live, and some of these children thrive.<br /><br />Poor, poor children.Truly Blessedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14038333888405690505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-316191265933534655.post-65336881347637264122012-07-12T21:27:01.396-05:002012-07-12T21:27:01.396-05:00So Russia maintains hellish institutions that caus...So Russia maintains hellish institutions that cause massive psychological damage to the orphaned children in their "care", and then blames the adoptive parents for not being able to magically cure (with ~love~ of course) the extreme, dangerous behaviors of their mentally ill children? What did they expect, exactly?! Adoption = TRAUMA. Some children are too severely traumatized to life safely in a family. Let me stress that this is the minority of adopted children, on the far end of the attachment disorder spectrum. But what else are these parents supposed to do? Where are they supposed to turn? Mental health resources for children and adolescents (never mind mental health resources specializing in adoption trauma) are few and far between -- not to mention prohibitively expensive and often not covered by insurance. <br /><br />These parents did not ship their kids back to Russia on a one-way ticket. They're trying to get their kids desperately-needed help. The Russian officials should be focusing on why these Russian children need so much help in the first place. Hint: being confined to a crib in an understaffed orphanage with zero stimulation for the formative months and years of their lives might have something to do with it! Being prenatally abused by drugs and alcohol probably didn't help either. And then being given to naive, woefully unprepared foreigners and shipped halfway around the world? Really, how could this turn out well?!<br /><br />As usual in cases like this, my sympathies are entirely with the poor kids who have been failed so badly so many times. I hope they are able to heal...but I know it isn't likely.Leahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08536074798005511425noreply@blogger.com