“Why would they care?”
This was on the first country wide TVcannel at 9 pm news release April, 29.
Thousands of Americans are watching the consultations in Moscow with anxiety and anticipation: those who already have brought orphans from Russia,and those who are still dreaming to do it. They are confident that each child has the right to love and be loved, especially if he or she has already experienced pain, cruelty and injustice at the very beginning of his little life. History 7-year-old Artem Saveliev, thrown on a plain by his American mother doesn’t go away from the pages of American newspapers, it is broadly discussed on television and radio. The petition in two languages, Russian and English, addressed to the presidents of Russia and the U.S. is signed by 26 thousand people inseveral days. Its authors, a Washington public organizations ask not to terminate the right from Americans to adopt young Russians due to the drama with Artem Saveliev.
Why would Americans care so much about our children, and why would this story arise such emotions in the USA? Answers to these questions can be found, for example, in the Smith family, who, like many others, have signed a petition to the President. In addition to their own child, they have adopted 6 more from the United States, Uzbekistan, and 4 of which came out of Russia.
Why would Joyce and Mark need all that? They are simply of those people who decide for themselves clearly one day- “if not us, then who?”. Now they are just as clearly can explain what happened to the woman from Tennessee, who left Artem Saveliev.
Girls and boys from the orphanages had once presented Joyce and Mark with all the hardest lessons that could easily make up the encyclopedia of difficulties in adoption – conflict, runaways, aggression. But the answer to that was love and ultimate goodness, multiplied by patience and years of work.
Joyce Smith: “Often it seems that everything is falling apart. But we must realize that adopted children are very scared at first – they are in another culture, they learn a new language, the food is different, smells are different! Yes, generally everything else is so different, I know what I felt whe
n I was in Russia – everything was different. And it’s me, an adult, but now imagine what the child feels. “
8-year-old girl from Kostroma, enjoys the most how her mom and sing a song about a little star. Three years ago, David and Elizabeth decided that they probably have everything to make happy a child that feels the most miserable in the whole world.
For 3 years in America, Milana went through five successful operations and gained vision, whole her parents gained the conviction that every child should be in a family. But why would they sign a petition to
President asking not to prohibit the adoption in Russia into American families?
Elizabeth Dzhaffin: “This is our problem too, because our daughter is from Russia, it is – part of our family, and Russia is a part of her,so Russia is a part of us.”
David Dzhaffin: “And we want people in Russia to know that lots of Americans disapprove the woman from Tennessee, we feel that it was an absolutely wrong thing to do. If you take a child, you should solve all the problems. This is how the world is made. It’s not a car you’re buying that you return if its transmission is not working. It’s your job to take care of the children while they grow. “
The story of Artem Saveliev is not the first accident with adopted
children from Russia. Of course, the fact that out of 60,000 children adopted during nearly a quarter of a century,17 kids were killed is not a reason to be careless about it.
In order to exclude tragidies from the dry statistics and protect the life of each child, the commission of State Department brings their proposals to Moscow. Thomas Difilipo, one of the main experts in the
country on the subject, is sure that the U.S. side will make every effort to save the situation.
Difilipo Thomas, president of Joint Council of International Service for children in the State Department: “We are working hard to tighten the standards for 
adoption agencies that work with the Russian side.
It does not freeze the adoption process and it is an improvement so more children may have a new family, and that will be completely safe for them. ”
Steve and Christine fly to Moscow. They are in total confusion. At the coffee shop of the New York airport – photos of four of their children who were already adopted from different countries. The fifth
one, Valera, was to come from a children’s home in Nizhny Lomov. They had hoped to return with him.
Christine Jack: “It was a moment of pain. We have learned from the news about the suspension of adoptions. We needed to understand what was happening, I called Steve horrified.”
Stephen Jacque: “We started thinking, what to do, all of the Valera’s the documents are submitted and we have tickets in hand.”
Steve and Christine would like to think that the 14-year-old Valerie does not know about the possible difficulties. It is enough that he knows how he was found in the snow with frozen hands at the age of 2. And now he knows that soon parents will come after him. It’s not the loss of twenty thousand dollars they are concerned the most at this point The when they sign the petition to the two presidents. They do it because the act of one woman messed up the possibility of thousands of Americans to adopt someone they are ready say to:
Christine Jack: “I love you.”
Stephen Jake: “You are my son.”
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