caregiver, and to express rage against that person as instructed.
Through this procedure, any child cooperating with AT will say that a caregiver
was abusive. Statements made in this way by Eve’s children were the apparent
source of abuse accusations against her—the accusations that are being used as
an argument in favor of preventing her from having contact with the children,
and eventually of terminating her parental rights. (Eve has never been told
what the accusations against her actually are, so she cannot defend herself;
instead of telling her, Colorado authorities suggested that she make a list of
all the bad things she had done, and they would check those against what the
boys were reported to have said.)

Paradoxically, when AT practitioners wish to foster
an attachment between a child and a new caregiver, one of their toolsmean.

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

The Russian ban on adoption of children to the United
States has been the subject of a number of articles and an editorial in the New
York Times over Christmas week of
2012. The Duma, the Russian parliament, passed legislation prohibiting adoption
of Russian children to the U.S., and President Vladimir Putin signed the bill.
The Times and other U.S. sources attributed
the ban to Russian reprisal against the Magnitsky Act, a U.S. attempt to
censure Russians for human rights violations. The Duma attributed it to the
fact that 19 Russian-born children have died in adoptive homes in the U.S. Curiously, however, the bill was named for Dima
Yakovlev, whose tragic death in a hot car was one of the few that were clearly
accidental rather than the result of systematic maltreatment. Like the Times,