Russian Adoptions Slow but not Stopped a Year after Uproar
Thursday, April 07th, 2011, by Blake Farmer
Vickie and Wayne Tomlinson pose with their new daughter Anna after a celebration lunch in Russia.
It was a year ago this week that a small town nurse in Shelbyville put the international adoption world into an uproar. Fearful of her newly adopted son, she sent the 7-year-old back to Moscow on a one-way trip.
Russian adoptions had already been on a steady decline. Russian officials threatened to suspend placements with U.S. families altogether. But the adoption pipeline was never completely shutoff.