[REL] Adopting Olya [Russia]

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Adopting Olya - 1995
Russian law allows foreign nationals to adopt Russian orphans. But there is a catch: only children with birth defects and incurable medical conditions may be adopted. Adopting Olya is the story of one such adoption. Four-year-old Olya has lived in the Children's Home in Chelyabinsk all her life. She has been diagnosed with a vague "developmental disability." Sam and Meredith live in California, have never traveled to Russia, and know their future daughter from a video. Sam and Merideth walk into the orphanage with gifts for Olya, but soon every child in the room is playing with balloons and soap bubbles. A year later we visit Olya in her new California home, celebrating her first Independence Day.

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Olya was born in 1989 so she would be in her early 30s by now, I hope she had a happy childhood in the states, from what the documentary showed it seemed like she was beginning to be happy there.

Cute kid too, her adoptive parents clearly loved her.

[Sully23]

You prevented me from making a mistake, it is very bad the Russians give away their children 'special condition' I will look for another country to adopt.

[Rich_Visiting]

It's an optimistic view of the situation. Came to a 'closure' many years later with the defining case of Masha Allen.