Prosecutors and human rights activists say that the majority of tragedies that occurred to Russian children in foster families abroad have taken place because of independent adoption practice. Child abuse scandals caused damage to authorized adoption agencies in Russia too. Seven of them (73 in total) were deprived of licenses in 2005 because of rough violations of the law. All adoption agencies will have to go through registration procedures with the Ministry for Justice and then with the Ministry for Education. An adoption agency will have to be registered as a non-governmental organization at first. As a result, many adoption agencies will have to suspend their activities until all bureaucratic formalities are settled.
The number of Russian families that adopted Russian orphans exceeded the number of foster parents from other countries in 2005. On the other hand, the number of children adopted by foreign citizens dropped by 26 percent last year. One has to acknowledge, though, that orphans can find themselves in a hostile family atmosphere in Russia as well, once they have foster Russian parents. What is worse, the number of orphans continues to grow because of the absence of the thought-out family policy in Russia.
Vremya Novostei
Translated by Dmitry Sudakov
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