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Adoptions are properly prepared and are organized in a way that will protect the children and ensure that they come into safe and loving, permanent homes when they come to the united states. so its a matter really of three things: of screening the parents carefully, to be sure that they are appropriate adoptive parents, preparing those parents well for the challenge that theyre likely to face as they take on the responsibility of adopting a child whos lived in an institution, and then of providi...

The crash and maintain that the pilot did, in fact, receive warning about adverse weather conditions in a timely matter. his body will be available for public viewing today while a special joint session of the polish parliament will set a date for a presidential vote. u.s. officials will travel to moscow in the wake of the growing international dispute involving a 7-year-old boy that was returned to russia by his adoptive mother. it comes after russian officials threatened to halt adoptions by...

And mostly, we file a lot of neglect charges, what is why i said early on, think for them not to do something in this case, you are setting a horrible precedent for people. its just for people to look at and say, well if she doesnt have charges filed against her for putting a child on plane, you are going to put charges against me for leaving my child in a car, as mark said earlier? it just doesnt make sense. >> larry: will this affect russian adoptions, do you think, mark? >> i would imagine th...

The child welfare system in the u.s. we focus on domestic violence. so thats really my lens is domestic adoptions. and here in the u.s., we see about 51,000 adoptions a year. and between 10% and 50% of those adoptions are disrupted. >> 10% to 15%? >> yes. and there are many reasons for that. >> i was going to say, what are the primary reasons? presumably you do see the same things over and over. >> well, you see -- first of all, the cwla is an advocate for making sure that parents who want to ad...

Find to charge anybody with on this. so guess what? tag, youre it. were looking now, abuse was mentioned. but the child is in russia. who knows if theyre going to let that child come back here or not if need be. were looking at maybe possibly abandonment. several different things along those lines. >> joining us live right now from washington is christine james broub wwn. christine, this was an international adoption, obviously. i know your group looks into this with domestic adoptions. similar ...

Physically and mentally. so nobody withheld anything from him. its a lie. but when i asked how the mother treated him, he burst into tears and said she thus uused to pull hair. >> so ive spoken to a russian ombudsman in charge of welfare and he said there is a freeze. weve done follow-up calls and it doesnt appear a formal order has gone out. we spoke with the u.s. ambassador here whether, in fact, american families who are desperate to adopt russian children and more than 50,000 have been adopt...

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com okay. more fallout from an adoption case that sparked outrage from the u.s. to russia. it involves the 7-year-old boy adopted by the tennessee family and put on a flight alone and sent back to russia. the family says the child showed psychotic behavior. they are one step closer on putting a freeze on adoptions to the united states. ivan, lets start with you. lets talk about the news on this front, working toward what might be a freeze in u.s.-russia adopti...

Probably bonding issues, attachment issues, you bring him to another culture, another language, make it where it cant work for him and you send him back. >> larry: were there other children? >> in the home? from what i understand there maybe other children in the home, i dont know if they were siblings of that child. >> larry: russia and adoptions next, dont go away. [ announcer ] if you think about it, this is a lot like most job search sites. - they let everyone in, - [ crowd groans ] so the b...

Ivan watson is there. you know, people in russsia are outraged, people in tennessee and all over are outraged over there. what is the government fallout from this in moscow? whats being done as far as trying to push some kind of punishment on, i dont know, the u.s., the parents, whatever? >> well, drew, i think the government is continuing to voice outrage. this case comes after several high-profile cases over course of the last several years of russian adopted children who were abused and, in s...

Prosecutor. why is his citizenship relevant? >> generally when you adopt a child internationally, the child becomes a u.s. citizen immediately upon the adoption. i think its relevant to the debate because now were talking about freezing international adoptions. weve got a child whos been sent back to russia and a mom here whos potentially facing criminal charges. >> does it increase the chance that she could face criminal charges if the child is deemed an american citizen? >> no. i dont think --...