About numbers and about children

On December 6, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced that of the 259 Russian children who were supposed to be adopted by the Americans, only 95 could not find a family in Russia. For example, out of 33 St. Petersburg orphans who remained in Russia due to the “anti-orphan” law, only 11 remained unemployed. Earlier, Rosbalt journalists, citing the Committee on Social Policy of St. Petersburg, wrote that Russians out of these 33 adopted only one

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I just want to ask Dmitry Anatolyevich to explain to the girl Valeria with Down syndrome from the specialized orphanage No. 1 in Peterhof that she is not at all one of 32 children who lost their families because of the law, but in fact only one of 11. Nikoloz with a severe genetic disease called "butterfly syndrome", Dmitry Anatolyevich will have to explain that he is not among these 33 children at all, because his failed American mother did not have time to collect all the documents for him and submit them to the court, therefore, potential is not considered an adoptive parent.

The anniversary of the adoption of the "anti-Magnit" law is approaching, and every day brings news on a children's topic. Thus, the Investigative Committee announced the initiation of a criminal case on the facts set forth in the investigation of journalists from the Reuters agency. We are talking about American families who transferred adopted children abroad, including in Russia, children they could not cope with, to strangers via the Internet. But the investigation was published in early September, and the case is being initiated only now. Why did it take three months? And a week earlier, almost all the media vied with each other to quote Federation Council member Valentina Petrenko, who said that out of 6.5 thousand orphans adopted last year in Russia, 4.5 thousand were returned to orphanages. And such figures did not seem unnatural to anyone. No one wondered why, according to the same Investigative Committee, in 2012, not 4.5 thousand, but 75 court decisions on the annulment of adoption were recorded. No one thought that such information could alienate potential Russian adoptive parents.

On the one hand, we must not forget about those who initiated and lobbied for the "anti-orphan" law and voted for it. On the other hand, about those of our fellow citizens who, despite all the difficulties, adopt children. While Dmitry Anatolyevich talks about the fact that “we should take care of our children ourselves, not rely on good uncles and aunts from different countries”, Natalya Kazhaeva from Samara, who took the boy Stepan with cerebral palsy into her family - one of those who did not leave for America because of the law, - collects documents for one more sick child. And the other day, two of her friends, inspired by her example, brought home five children from the orphanage ...