Karen's Adoption Links Blog

The latest news and Tweets from Pavel Astakhov say the St Petersburg case will not be protested by the prosecutors.

Kaluga , a child came home http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/01/russia-allows-final-child-adoptions-to-leave-for-us/ St Petersburg , in at least one case the prosecutor filed an objection during the 30 days period http://www.interfax.ru/society/news.asp?id=286237 But here the St Pete Childrens ombudsman is arguing for the adoption http://piter.tv/event/Agapitova_otstoyala_pravo/ (In Russian, use a translator)  Earlier this month, St Petersburg cases did proceed.

A caution for families currently in process of adopting in Russia from Parents for Ethical Adoption Reform (PEAR) http://pear-now.blogspot.com/2013/01/cautionary-statement-for-families-in.html PEAR has become aware of possible scams and exploitative practices being aimed at families currently in the process of adopting from Russia . Read the entire statement at the link above

Fatal Distraction By Gene Weingarten Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, March 8, 2009 The defendant was an immense man, well over 300 pounds, but in the gravity of his sorrow and shame he seemed larger still. He hunched forward in the sturdy wooden armchair that barely contained him, sobbing softly into tissue after tissue, a leg bouncing nervously under the table. In the first pew of spectators sat his wife, looking stricken, absently twisting her wedding band. The room was a sepulcher. Witnesses spoke softly of events so painful that many lost their composure. When a hospital emergency room nurse described how the defendant had behaved after the police first brought him in, she wept. He was virtually catatonic, she remembered, his eyes shut tight, rocking back and forth, locked away in some unfathomable private torment. He would not speak at all for the longest time, not until the nurse sank down beside him and held his hand. It was only then that the patient began to open...