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BOB FAW<\/strong>, correspondent: Life is peaceful now for the Harshaw family since their eight-year-old adopted son Roman has been at a residential facility where he is being helped with his escalating violent behavior. Last year Roman tried to drown his sister, Grace, in their swimming pool. Another time, says his mother, Roman\u2026<\/p>\n

JULIE HARSHAW<\/strong>: \u2026got mad because he wanted her to continue to play with him, and so he went over and found a two-by-four that was on the side of the yard and came up behind her and was going to hit her over the head to stop her from leaving. It would have killed her. I screamed at her to run, and Roman, you know, two minutes later didn\u2019t even know what he had done.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: The Harshaws adopted Roman from a Russian orphanage when he was 18 months old. They were told he was healthy, but as he got older Roman became hyperactive and aggressive. Eventually he was diagnosed with fetal alcohol syndrome, leaving him with the mental capacity of a three-year-old.<\/p>\n

\"post02-adoptionethics\"JULIE HARSHAW<\/strong>: He gets frustrated very easily, and when he gets frustrated or mad he basically can\u2019t control any of those emotions.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: Roman has punched holes in walls, nor does he sleep much. To keep him from wandering off, the Harshaws had to install alarms on every door and window. Watching Roman, never knowing what might trigger an eruption, has exhausted this family.<\/p>\n

CHIP HARSHAW<\/strong>: Over the last six years, you get worn down. Every day is incredible stress here, and not just for mom and dad but for everybody. We are in a terrible dilemma. We look at him as our son. You know, what would you do if it was your biological child, you know? Is it just because he\u2019s adopted that these questions are posed? To us he\u2019s our son, and we\u2019re fighting for him.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: Other parents who have adopted troubled children from Eastern Europe have taken more drastic measures. Dr. Ronald Federici runs a clinic for families wrestling with difficult adoptions.<\/p>\n

DR. RONALD FEDERICI<\/strong> (Developmental Neuropsychologist): I\u2019ve picked up children at the baggage carousel at airports. I\u2019ve had them left in my office, in my office\u2014they drove off. I\u2019ve seen some horrific situations where parents, good people, totally lost it and wound up in prison for murdering their child. The amount of child abuse cases have been enormous.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: When a Tennessee mother packed off her adopted son on a plane back to Russia with only a note, many people were outraged. But others who have walked in that mother\u2019s shoes, were more understanding.<\/p>\n

\"post06-adoptionethics\"JULIE HARSHAW<\/strong>: My first reaction was that I could empathize with her, knowing that she must have been going through probably a lot of the same things that we go through, and certainly don\u2019t condone how it was done.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: You could understand?<\/p>\n

JULIE HARSHAW<\/strong>: I could understand, and unfortunately, people like to judge you before they know what you\u2019re going through.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: Eighteen-year-old Elyana identifies with that little boy sent back home alone to Russia. She knows first-hand what it\u2019s like to be cast away.<\/p>\n

ELYANA GOLDWATER<\/strong>: When I heard about the Tennessee issue, I thought, \u201cThis is not a store. You can\u2019t buy and return.\u201d<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: Elyana was first adopted in 2000 by a family that wanted to help someone less fortunate. But it was not a good match, and the parents halted, or what caseworkers would say, disrupted the adoption.<\/p>\n

GOLDWATER<\/strong>: It felt really, really bad, an it feels really bad right now, too.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: It does leave scars?<\/p>\n

GOLDWATER<\/strong>: It does, it does.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: Elyana\u2019s pain, her longing, was captured in a poem she later wrote.<\/p>\n

GOLDWATER<\/strong> (reading poem): When I was little, little as you, I had a dream I thought would never come true. I dreamed of a family that would fill my heart with love.<\/p>\n

\"post03-adoptionethics\"FAW<\/strong>: For \u201cdisrupted\u201d children, the wounds are lasting.<\/p>\n

FEDERICI<\/strong>: Permanently scarred by having the hope of an attachment and then the disruption. The concern that I have on a lot of families is that when they adopt they may not always see it as a permanency nowadays, because there\u2019s a lot of openings or availability to disrupt adoptions. Many of the agencies who know they may get sued will say we\u2019ll take the child back.<\/p>\n

JANICE GOLDWATER<\/strong> (Adoptions Together): The issue is how much a parent claims a child as their own, and so when parents claim their biological children as their own it comes naturally. We\u2019re programmed hormonally to claim our children when they\u2019re born. When we adopt children, it\u2019s more of a process, and so once a parent has claimed a child as their own, you rarely to never see them give up on that child.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: Janice Goldwater, who runs an adoption agency in Maryland, is Elyana\u2019s mother. Elyana was adopted a second time by the Goldwater family in 2000 when she was eight. Janice found out everything she could about Elyana and knew the family would have to invest time and money in helping Elyana heal. When it comes to adoptions, she says, the best intentions are not enough. Love does not conquer all.<\/p>\n

GOLDWATER<\/strong>: We actually had social workers that said, you know, as we looked at different children, \u201cOh, she just needs love. She just needs some love. She\u2019s had really difficult years and just needs some love.\u201d<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: And that\u2019s na\u00efve?<\/p>\n

\"post04-adoptionethics\"GOLDWATER<\/strong>: That\u2019s very na\u00efve. That\u2019s very na\u00efve.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: Who is morally responsible, then, for the outcome of an adoption?<\/p>\n

(speaking to Janice Goldwater): Morally, the parent has a responsibility to find out as much as he can.<\/p>\n

GOLDWATER<\/strong>: Absolutely.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: And the agency morally has a responsibility to reveal as much as they can.<\/p>\n

GOLDWATER<\/strong>: To share everything. That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: What\u2019s the reality?<\/p>\n

GOLDWATER<\/strong>: Families do get a tremendous amount of information, and in, you know, some instances they don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: The Harshaws, who spent over $25,000 to adopt their son, say they were not informed of Roman\u2019s problems and are suing the adoption agency they used. The agency disputes their claims.<\/p>\n

FEDERICI<\/strong> (speaking to patient): You are doing pretty good on this one.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: Dr. Ronald Federici, familiar with hundreds of cases in the last 24 years, says agencies don\u2019t work hard enough at getting the information about these children, and parents don\u2019t push them enough.<\/p>\n

\"post05-adoptionethics\"FEDERICI<\/strong>: Both sides have not done due diligence. Families didn\u2019t ask because they were told there\u2019s nothing else available. Parents go in hopeful, trusting, pay a lot of money, but are often ill-informed and don\u2019t do enough due diligence on their end on the part of the agency, and push them harder.<\/p>\n

JANICE GOLDWATER<\/strong>: Sometimes nobody knew. Issues emerge as the kids grow. We\u2019ve placed infants that appear to be healthy and grow up and have autism, Asperger\u2019s. You have all kinds of issues that nobody had any idea was going to happen.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: The moral choice facing the Harshaws in regards to their son\u2019s future is difficult. Grace could be in danger if Roman returns home. Daniel, their 13-year-old son who\u2019s stayed away from home because of Roman, may start doing so again. The family stress was so bad Daniel asked to see a therapist. And the Harshaws\u2019 marriage has been severely tested.<\/p>\n

JULIE HARSHAW<\/strong>: Chip and I basically are like two ships passing in the night. We don\u2019t see each other, because one person has to control Roman while the other person has the other two. So the family unit\u2019s kind of falling apart.<\/p>\n

CHIP HARSHAW<\/strong>: We\u2019ve considered everything, even in our marriage we have, and the truth is that we really need each other because of this issue. At the same time, sometimes it doesn\u2019t feel like you\u2019re married anymore, because of the amount of stress that we\u2019ve become different people because of this situation.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: People who watch this will say, at some point you\u2019ve got to say to yourself we have tried everything, and that being the case we can walk away.<\/p>\n

\"post01-adoptionethics\"CHIP HARSHAW<\/strong>: There\u2019s a bond there that has been created. He is our child, and we are his mom and dad. That he knows. That\u2019s all he knows, that we are mom and dad, and to turn our backs on him and to walk away and say there\u2019s nothing else we can do, that\u2019s what is bothersome to Julie and I.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: Even what they\u2019ve done temporarily, putting Roman in a facility where he can get treatment, does not ease this family\u2019s anguish.<\/p>\n

JULIE HARSHAW<\/strong>: I was thinking about Roman, I\u2019m thinking about what he\u2019s doing. I\u2019m thinking, about am I a horrible mom for having him there? If I let go of him permanently I don\u2019t think I could ever live with myself. There is that part of him, that little boy, that is there that is trying to love the only way he knows how, and it\u2019s not his fault that he can\u2019t control himself.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: When he does come home, what are you going to do?<\/p>\n

GRACE HARSHAW<\/strong>: Give him a hug.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: A big hug?<\/p>\n

GRACE HARSHAW<\/strong>: A squeezie hug.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: Ultimately, what happens to Roman is uncertain. For Elyana, the prospects are much brighter. Remember that sad poem she wrote? Listen to how it ends.<\/p>\n

ELYANA<\/strong> (reading poem): First my heart said never. But now we are family forever.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: Even her name now seems fitting. Translated, she says, Elyana means \u201cGod has answered.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, this is Bob Faw in Silver Spring, Maryland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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