I agree with Darlene that the situation is sad from both sides. That boy deserves a loving family no matter what his upbringing is. That being said, coming from a home where I'm the only biological child and my parents adopted four after me, you have to look at it from the mom's side, too. The adoption process is so time consuming, gut-wrenching, expensive, and very difficult all the way around. Because of everything that you have to go through, when you finally get the child you want everything to be as it should... not have that child talk about burning your house down with you in it (allegedly). I can't wait to hear the entire TRUE story as to what really happened. I don't like that the person in charge of the Russian adoption agency has already come out and said that the boy told him that the mom was pulling his hair and being mean to him. I'm sorry, in my experience with adoption, people who go through this long, expensive process generally aren't child abusers, it doesn't make much sense. |