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Moscow. why she hasn't been questioned by authorities. >> bill: she has. she may be charged. >> she better be charged. that kid is an american citizen. his civil rights may have been violated. >> bill: she claims he has fetal alcohol syndrome. >> there is a problem with that there is a mechanism for dealing with that if she really couldn't deal with the child, she actually could have escorted him -- there are ways to -- this is putting thousands of children's lives in jeopardy. and let me tell you, these parents who are now in the middle of an adoption process, bill, it's heart-breaking. i hop...

In 2001 when he was 10 months old. they're not related. so -- and they both have had developmental delays and needed interventions and -- i think parents going into this need to be prepared for that. and get the child the help they need. >> the adoption process is pretty lengthy and time consuming. we started this the end of last summer and made it this far, so it's -- we're hoping things calm down. >> shepard: i hope so too. >> plus we have a relationship with these boys. we've had a relationship since 2007 when we went to meet them. >> shepard: good luck, i hope they get it all together. i w...

From the state department is expected to arrive in russia to talk about the case. yesterday i spoke to the u embassy workers in moscow who handled the adoptions. >> none of us want to see anything like this happen again. we're going to sit down with the russians next week and make sure it this doesn't happen. >> for now, the adoptions are off but the united states doesn't realized it. 250 american families have completed the adoption process and were getting ready to travel to russia to pick up their children. town hall up in the air, including a texas couple to adopted two kids and just found...

Suspended. joining i it's good to see you today. >> hello. >> why don't you introduce me to your two boys? >> sure. this is charlie right here. this is jack right here. >> nice to see you guys. >> they're 7 and 8 years old from st. petersburg, russia. >> given how well you know this process inside and out, how do you analyze the situation with this russian mom, i mean with the american mom and the russian child? >> right. well, i just feel real sad that she adopted him and had had him home for only 6 months. as far as we know, hadn't really reached out to anybody, any of the resources we have ...

>> they're furious and this will make them look at every adoption of a russian child to the united states. last year, just to give you an idea, there were 1600 roughly russian kids adopted by american families and we're told there could be as many as 3,000 american families currently in the adoption process for a russian kid. if they did put a freeze on that, it would affect a lot of american families. >> it certainly would. jonathan hunt, thank you very much. jonathan is conducting an online chat at foxnews.com/shep. the home page for all things "studio b" and fox report. a video there now. a...