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need. Unfortunately, the temporary suspension of the adoption of Russian orphans by Americans came at a time when more Russian families returned their adopted children to orphanages."Over the last two years, [Russian] adoptive families returned about 30,000 children to orphanages," Mizulina told RIA Novosti.
Many Russian families are unable to cope with problem children, while Americans have been temporarily prohibited from adopting Russian children. Against this background, the story of Artyom, although shocking, seems to be an exception rather than the rule regarding Russian children adopted by American families.
Why have many adoptions by Russian families failed? Boris Altshuler, coordinator of the Child"s Right humanitarian program, gives two reasons. The first is insufficient psychological and medical assistance provided for adoptive families. And the second is the long financial reports they have to write to account for each ruble the government
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