{"id":1551,"date":"2010-10-18T17:04:34","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T17:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.againstchildtrafficking.org\/?p=1551"},"modified":"2010-10-19T17:05:45","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T17:05:45","slug":"russian-child-adoptions-by-foreigners-drop-50-over-last-5-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/russian-child-adoptions-by-foreigners-drop-50-over-last-5-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian child adoptions by foreigners drop 50% over last 5 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Date: 2010-10-18<\/div>\n<div>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.rian.ru\/society\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/en.rian.ru\/society<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0The number of Russian children adopted by foreigners has almost halved over<br \/>\nthe past five years, an official with the Russian Ministry of Education and<br \/>\nScience said on Monday.<!--more--><br \/>\nThe number of children adopted by Russians, however, increased by 27% over<br \/>\nthe same period, said Alina Levitskaya, the director of the ministry&#8217;s<br \/>\ndepartment for education and social adaptation of children.<br \/>\n&#8220;In 2007, we [the ministry] permitted foreign nationals to adopt 4,536<br \/>\nchildren and 3,815 children in 2009. This is a 27% decline over the past two<br \/>\nyears and around a 50% decline over the past five years,&#8221; she said.<br \/>\nThe issue of Russian child adoptions by foreigners has been in the public<br \/>\nfocus recently as a result of a number of highly publicized incidents.<br \/>\nIn June, a 7-year-old boy was placed alone on a one-way flight to Moscow by<br \/>\nhis U.S. adoptive mother with a note claiming he was &#8220;psychopathic.&#8221;<br \/>\nFollowing the case, Russia threatened to prohibit child adoptions by U.S.<br \/>\ncitizens until the countries sign an intergovernmental agreement<br \/>\nguaranteeing the rights of adoptive children.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nMOSCOW, October 18 (RIA Novosti)<br \/>\nRussian child adoptions by foreigners drop 50% over last 5 years<br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: 2010-10-18 Source: http:\/\/en.rian.ru\/society \u00a0The number of Russian children adopted by foreigners has almost halved over the past five years, an official with the Russian Ministry of Education and Science said on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1554,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions\/1554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}