Monday, Bedford County, Tennessee Common Pleas Court Judge Franklin Lee Russell ruled against child abandoner Torry Hansen’s request that the public be barred from court in upcoming child support hearings Np date has been set. Hansen made international headlines last year when she put her adopted son Artyom Savelyev, 7 (now 9) on a plane by himself with orders to return him to the Russian Ministry of Education, the ministry  that oversees adoptions from Russia. The little boy wasn’t a good fit for her and her overbearing mother. The World Association of Children and Parents ((WACAP) the agency that placed Atryom with Hansen has brought suit for child support arguing that putting the boy on a plane to Moscow  is not a “legitimate way to annul an adoption.”  Hansen, the agency contends, is still the legal parent,  and  liable for child support payments to WACAP.  Russian courts have also reportedly requested child support from Hansen. According to Monday’s  news, WACAP is asking for a standard 27% of her salary as a nurse, plus back payments.  Hansen’s  (third) attorney, Sandra Smith, had asked the court to exclude the media from hearings because of the Artyom’s juvenile status. According to Monday’s Tennessean Continue Reading →

This really will be short tonight.  I’ve been sick all day again.  Not that it’s really bad sick, but enough to wear me down. I’ve had this before, and it will go away in a couple days (I hope)  In the meantime, every time I think of adoption, I feel sick.  No individual adoption stories,  not my friends, not organizations,   Like one could get sick of theatre( been there, done that),  the Complete Works of Karl Marx (been there done that for a class assignment).,  Obama (continually) Adoption. A subject that never goes away.   I’ve gotten lots of good comments here and on FB over my last couple blogs, and I’ll be responding soon.  Just not tonight. 

The Columbus Dispatch ran a pretty clueless article–For Some Parents, Struggle over Adoption is Never Ending,  on yesterday’s event at Camp Mary Onrton sponsored by the Ohio Birth Parent Grup  (see blog directly below this. I’m not famliar with reporter Bill Bush, but I think the event wojuld have much better served if Rita Price had covered it.  I’ve worked with Rita before, and she knows her aodption business. Anyway, Bush emphasized, victimization and sensationalizatin, something that sells papers, but not adoption reality, and makes those of us in adoption look like victims, not fiighters  Please post comments on the Dispatch website if you wre there or write a letter to the editor.. I’m posoting something ,but not tonight  I’m still sick and going back to bed.