So much for the American dream

[TantricSoul]

I am simply glad the boy is safe.

There are many perspectives to view this story from and with the limited details above all one can do is make judgments based on assumptions.

I do feel for the children and potential parents who now have political gamesmanship holding up their own adoption process and my wish for them is a timely resolution and ultimately fulfillment of their desires to create families.

The one clear item in this story is that nationalism has absolutely nothing to do with it.

Respectfully,
TS

[DuncanONeil]

I agree, there is not enough info.
But I would like to say adoptions are "revoked" (can't find a good adjective) for much the same reasons across the board. I would hope the number is small but the number is of little import. One would suspect that the reasons given in all cases are much the same as those "reported" in this.

Still very sad!

I am simply glad the boy is safe.

There are many perspectives to view this story from and with the limited details above all one can do is make judgments based on assumptions.

I do feel for the children and potential parents who now have political gamesmanship holding up their own adoption process and my wish for them is a timely resolution and ultimately fulfillment of their desires to create families.

The one clear item in this story is that nationalism has absolutely nothing to do with it.

Respectfully,
TS

[Thorne]

I would like to say adoptions are "revoked" (can't find a good adjective) for much the same reasons across the board.

Regardless of the reasons, you don't just throw a kid on a plane with a "Return to Sender" sticker. There are procedures to follow, most of which would ensure the safety of the child. My biggest question is whether the guy who met the kid in Russia was someone well known to this woman or was he some guy she met in a chat room?

But I wouldn't worry too much about them stopping adoptions by Americans. Where else are they going to find people gullible enough to pay them to take off their unwanted kids?

[DuncanONeil]

Perhaps I was reacting too much to the adoption angle. The rest of it does leave an opening for castigating the women, but we really do not have all of the information. There is not evidence for what I am about to say either. The article could have been written from a PC perspective. Biased to what was done and deliberately left out some information.
Airlines have in place a program for the transport of "Unaccompanied Minors" so it must happen fairly often.

As a few of us have said there is a lot of guess work being applied here!

Maybe this is a good time to bring up the title of this thread? What does this human frailty story have to do with the "American Dream"?

Regardless of the reasons, you don't just throw a kid on a plane with a "Return to Sender" sticker. There are procedures to follow, most of which would ensure the safety of the child. My biggest question is whether the guy who met the kid in Russia was someone well known to this woman or was he some guy she met in a chat room?

But I wouldn't worry too much about them stopping adoptions by Americans. Where else are they going to find people gullible enough to pay them to take off their unwanted kids?