Paying bribes in Armenian Adoptions - customery practice in fact part of Hopscotch Adoptions contract #RobinSizemore

YEREVAN (Azatutyun.am)—The director of Armenia’s main maternity hospital and two other officials were arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of forcing young women to abandon their babies who were subsequently adopted by foreigners paying bribes.

The Investigative Committee made the arrests as part of a criminal investigation launched by another law-enforcement agency, the National Security Service (NSS), earlier this year.

In a November 14 statement, the NSS claimed to have found evidence of three dozen Armenian children have been illegally adopted by Italian nationals. In particular, it said, in 2016-2018 several officials used threats, blackmail and lies to convince over a dozen pregnant (and presumably unmarried) women to abandon their expected children.

According to the statement, immediately after their birth the children were taken to state-run orphanages whose senior employees later arranged their adoption by foreigners through forgery of their medical records and other violations of adoption rules set by the state. The NSS said that members of the crime ring made sure that Armenian citizens could not adopt the babies.

The arrested suspects are Razmik Abrahamyan, the director of the Republican Maternity Hospital, his deputy Arshak Jerjeryan and Liana Karapetyan, the director of a Yerevan orphanage. The Investigative Committee said that they colluded with two other individuals for personal gain but did not give any details.

All three suspects were interrogated later on Wednesday. It was not clear whether any of them admitted involvement in the alleged child trafficking.

A spokeswoman for the Yerevan-based hospital, Vartuhi Simonyan, declined to comment on its long-serving director’s arrest. At the same time Simonyan categorically denied the medical institution’s involvement in child adoptions in Armenia.

Abrahamyan, 76, was already charged in April this year with giving a bribe to then Deputy Health Minister Arsen Davtyan. Unlike Davtyan, who was reportedly caught red-handed in his office, the veteran doctor was not arrested at the time.

According to government data, a total of 54 Armenian children were adopted by foreign nationals, most of them Italians and Americans, from 2016-2018.

The integrity of foreign adoptions in Armenia has long been in serious doubt. A 2011 news report by RFE/RL’s Armenian service suggested that U.S. adoption agencies continue to make hefty informal payments to Armenian officials dealing with adoptions. It cited a sample contract signed by one such agency with Americans wishing to adopt Armenian or Georgian children.

The contract, offered to a potential client in the United States in 2007, explained that almost $5,000 of more than $30,000 charged by the agency for every adoption would be spent on “gifts to foreign service providers and government functionaries performing ministerial tasks as an offer of thanks for prompt service.” It claimed that such gifts are “customary” in Armenia and Georgia and do not violate U.S. law.

“Gifts and gratuities” were also a separate spending category in a sample agreement that was offered by another American adoption agency.

Robin Sizemore can claim "ignorance" of the facts but she knows very well about bribes in Armenia and WHY  her contract with North Carolina Adoptions was terminated.  Hell even her clients are giving key information about this when questions by Armenian authorities.  Its not just about "italiass" adopting as Robin would like people to believe......

http://asbarez.com/189612/three-arrested-in-illegal-foreign-adoption-scheme-in-armenia/

ROBIN SIZEMORE YOU SHAMEFUL WOMAN 

Vanessa Kachadurian Armenian victory-Mediation Report from Vanessa Kachadurian

FLY group supports vulnerable and orphan children of Armenia, no more orphanages children with families

95% of all children in Armenian orphanages have 1 parent, many are in orphanages while their parents go to Russia for work. Some have special needs and the parents cannot afford them / or there is a social stigma that we will be getting rid of. No more children in Armenia will be raised by orphanages, Michael Sarian executive of Prime Hospitals keeps his promises in Armenia and will make it happen. NO MORE ORPHANAGES, no more ADOPTION OF ARMENIAN CHILDREN TO FOREIGNERS


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Ethiopia bans all international adoptions

Americans want to BUY another person's child but not put that $40,000 into building clinics, schools, and training centers for the people of Ethiopia to dig their way out of poverty and corruption.  Americans are the most selfish of people on the planet.  

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-adoption-ban/ethiopia-adoption-ban-may-curb-trafficking-but-poorest-families-need-support-idUSKBN1F427L

NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A ban on the adoption of Ethiopian children by foreigners could curb child abuse and trafficking, but more support is needed for vulnerable families within the impoverished country, experts said on Monday.

Ethiopia is one the biggest source countries for international adoptions by U.S. nationals, with about 20 percent of all adopted children coming from the east African nation, according to the U.S. State Department.

Hollywood celebrities Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are among those who have adopted children from Ethiopia.

Child rights groups cite cases of“child harvesting” where adoption agencies unethically recruit minors for adoption by fraudulently altering paperwork to cast children with families as orphans whose parents had died or abandoned them.

In many instances, parents who cannot afford to look after their children consent to foreign adoption under the mistaken impression that it is like boarding school and they would maintain contact with their children, only to find out later that this is not the case.

Amid concerns that overseas adoptions fuel a trade in children from poor families and put them at risk of abuse, or being trafficked into slave-like conditions, parliament passed legislation on Jan. 10 banning inter-country adoption.

“Ethiopia has negative experiences with foreign adoptions, particularly in regard to child laundering, child harvesting, and children taken from families primarily due to poverty,” said David Smolin from the Center for Children, Law and Ethics at Samford University in the United States.

“Ethiopia’s ban on foreign adoptions is a reasonable response to past problems and to the need to focus efforts on assisting vulnerable children within Ethiopia.”

While many Ethiopian children have thrived due to inter-country adoption, there have been cases where they have faced abuse, and even death, at the hands of adoptive families.

In 2013, a couple in the U.S. were convicted of killing an adopted 13-year-old Ethiopian girl. The crime sparked debate about foreign adoption in a nation where families are forced to give children up due to a lack of money to care for them.

But under international law, poverty should not be a grounds for international adoption, and efforts instead should be made in assisting families to stay together, say experts.

The revised law encourages local adoption, family reunification and reintegration to enable children to grow up within the country, said the state-run Ethiopian News Agency.

Adoption experts emphasized that Ethiopia will need to follow-up the ban with increased efforts to assist vulnerable families within the country, and provide them with the resources to adequately care for their children.

“The most important thing is for the children involved to have permanency, in families,” said Adam Pertman, president of the U.S.-based National Center on Adoption and Permanency and author of“Adoption Nation”.

“The first choice is within their own family of origin, their own community and their own country,” he added.

Reporting by Nita Bhalla @nitabhalla, Editing by Ros Russell. Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women's rights, trafficking, property rights, climate change and resilience. Visit news.trust.org

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Hague Video What is international Adoption?

Carolina Adoption Services the oldest Armenian adoption program in the USA

https://www.carolinaadoption.org/international-adoption-programs/armenia-adoption/

Armenian Adoption statistics at a glance

https://travel.state.gov/content/adoptionsabroad/en/country-information/learn-about-a-country/armenia.html

European Human Rights Court rules that Russia is to pay loss to would be adoptive parents

Its highly unlikely that the EU courts can determine who or what would be adoptive parent suffered a loss. The article cites American would be adoptive parents as suffering the most., how does EU have jurisdiction in USA or Russia.  What Russia chooses to do with their children is their business and it's not the concern of American Adoption Service Providers who suffered financial loss over Russia closing down their program effectively 2013.  Americans have a sense of entitlement over Russia's children while 1 in 5 American children lives below poverty.  Notice this is EU courts and not the US State Department or US courts.  Why is that?  

Europe's human rights court ruled on Tuesday that Russia must pay damages and legal costs to Americans who were barred from adopting Russian children.

Russia, which immediately denounced the decision by the European Court of Human Rights, now has three months to appeal.

The panel of seven judges, including one Russian, ruled unanimously that Russia's application of a 2013 law that banned Americans from adopting Russian children was discriminatory.

The case was brought by 45 Americans who had been in the final stages of the adoption process. Many of the children they planned to adopt had serious health issues.

The human rights court said it awarded 3,000 euros ($3,180) in damages plus $600 (565 euros) in legal costs to each pair of prospective parents, according to a news release.

Konstantin Dolgov, the Russian foreign ministry's envoy for human rights, told the Interfax news agency on Tuesday that the ruling ignored "numerous arguments of the Russian side, substantiated by concrete evidence" of adopted Russian children being abused in American families.

Dolgov also refuted earlier reports that Russia might scrap the ban after Donald Trump is sworn in as U.S. president.

More than 200 U.S. families were in the midst of trying to adopt children from Russia when the ban was rushed through Russia's parliament and signed by President Vladimir Putin in December 2012 in retaliation for a U.S. law that sanctioned Russians said to have violated human rights.

The ban also reflected Russian resentment over the 60,000 Russian children adopted by Americans in the past two decades, about 20 of whom died from abuse, neglect or other causes while in the care of their adoptive parents.

By the Russians' count, the ban halted the pending adoptions of 259 children.

The court ruled that banning only American adoptions was disproportionate and discriminatory. It noted that prospective parents had visited children they wanted to adopt in orphanages and bonded with them before the ban abruptly cut short the process.

Russia's government "failed to show that there had been compelling reasons to justify such a retroactive and indiscriminate blanket ban on all prospective U.S. parents," the court said.  

Read more here: http://www.fresnobee.com/news/business/article126944889.html#storylink=cpy

International Adoptions Have Declined Dramatically

In 2004, the number of international adoptions was breaking records around the world. In the US, at least 23,000 children were adopted from overseas, a historic number. Since then, however, the rate of adoptions between countries has nosedived, primarily due to a tightening of regulations. Some countries were accused of illegal adoption activities as early as the 1980s, prompting them to implement stricter control over the practice. That has now brought about a dramatic 72 percent fall in US adoptions from 2004 to 2014, according to the website priceonomics

https://www.statista.com/chart/5489/international-adoptions-have-declined-dramatically/

Armenian Orphans have rights - Armenian Orphans to receive assistance for establishing business

http://armenpress.am/eng/news/835880/orphans-to-receive-assistance-for-establishing-business.html

Armenian Orphans have a future IN ARMENIA, they will not be sold to live overseas but to stay in their motherland.  Bravo, no more money for silly toys, candy, etc., money to improve their education investing in businesses, schools, books, libraries.  NO MORE ORPHANS. 

Armenian Adoption Adventure- Adoption of Special Needs Armenian Children $35,000 price tag

Another adoption, another ultra religious couple willing to save a child with many needs.  This Savannah fat house wife, advertised her fund raising.  Not only did she raise the money, but she mentions that Armenia is one of the most expensive (does she think the country sets the price)  not only that she hasn't obeyed the terms of her contract by keeping information about her adoption, the country, and agency "quiet" - so much for transparency. 
The money......

Rest assured the family may know something about raising a special needs child, since Ms. Orta teaches Special Education.  This Family has already traveled to Armenia (Gyumri) to register "Evan" (his fake name) in mid July, they will probably get a court date to travel back begining of November 2015.   Meanwhile this Orta family is busy raising funds for the adoption and travel expenses.

Here is where Orka the whale meets "Evan"

Notice how she hides his face AFTER she has plastered his photo 

not only online but in the Savannah Newspaper.  

Photo of "Evan" (fake name) on Orka the whale's website

Robin sure finds these fat ass evangelicals that want to save the world. 

IS ARMENIA EUROPE?  No Robin it's not its Caucaus area of Asia Minor 

 mother's calling: Savannah family nears end of journey to adopt special-needs child

Posted: May 9, 2015 - 10:49pm  |  Updated: May 10, 2015 - 7:54am

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Ian Maule/ Savannah Morning News- Christie Orta says a family prayer with her daughter, Laura, 8, and husband ,Raymundo, before having dinner at their home in Pooler on Thursday, May 7th, 2015. The Orta's are in the process of adopting a Armenian boy to add to their family.

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By Katie Martin

The first time Christie Orta saw a picture of Evan, a little boy with big brown eyes and dark hair, she sensed an instant connection.
“The moment I saw that sweet picture — in that moment, I knew,” she said of finding Evan on Reece’s Rainbow, an adoption advocacy website.
Since 2013, Christie and her husband, Raymundo, have been on a mission to adopt 3-year-old Evan, an. Armenian boy with Down syndrome, and although the journey has been a long and often stressful one, Christie said she believes it’s her calling
“I truly believe that’s who God put in our path, and if it takes us a little bit longer and we have to work a little bit harder to raise the funds, then that’s what we need to do,” she said.
Christie, who’s a special education teacher, was inspired to adopt a special-needs child after teaching students who were adopted under similar circumstances. The Ortas tried to foster to adopt within the United States through the Department of Family and Children’s Services, but after their plan fell through, Christie began online research and found Reece’s Rainbow.
The organization began in Atlanta in 2004 as an outreach program for families with babies with Down syndrome. In 2006, the program expanded to promote international adoption of children with Down syndrome.
“Reece’s Rainbow is an amazing advocacy resource for children, adoptive families, potential adoptive families and those who have hearts for children and want to help out,” she said of the program, which offers various grants and programs for people to make donations.
A lot of those donations, Christie said, come from families like hers that are in the process of adopting a child.
“That is one of the beautiful things about Reece’s Rainbow. Even though a lot of the families are in the process of adoption and are working hard to fundraise for themselves, they still donate and cheer on the adoption of others.”
Through fundraisers, raffles, parties and grants the Ortas have raised $21,000 of the $35,000 they need to bring Evan home: $16,000 from fundraisers and $5,000 from a Show Hope grant, a nonprofit organization founded by singer Steven Curtis Chapman.

The process of faith
Armenia’s adoption process is one of the most expensive and longest programs available, and the total cost is more than Christie makes in a year. (and more than Armenians make in a lifetime) 
“I was concerned about the money and how we were going to do it... Christie was so excited and I was more realistic,” Raymundo said.
“... At first I wasn’t going for it, but she was very passionate about it, so after we talked I knew that’s what she was meant to do. ... But for Christie, from the very first time she saw the picture she was attached.”
Through the ups and downs of fundraising and the adoption process, faith has played a major role for the family.
“Faith is a huge part of it. If this is something God has put into our path, then he’ll lead us to make it happen,” she said. “He was like this shining star of a baby, and I couldn’t figure out why someone hadn’t committed to him, so I was in a rush to get him. And we’ve met some families through Facebook who had actually pulled (Evan’s) file before committing to other children, so now I know that he was meant for us.”
Christie said it’s easy to romanticize what they’re doing, but, in reality, since Evan isn’t walking, he will need complete care much like an infant. But that’s an adjustment that she, Raymundo and their biological daughter, Laura, 8, are prepared for.
Laura admits she’s a little worried about getting a brother, but she’s more than ready to take on the role of big sister. She hopes to be able to help teach Evan to walk, talk and has already called the top bunk on the bunk beds she hopes to get once he arrives.
She’s got big plans for the rest of the bedroom, too, which she hopes to paint baby blue and fill with lots of boy stuff, like dinosaurs.
“I’ve never had a baby brother before, and now I can play with him... And I want to teach him to be like us two,” Laura said, grinning at her dad.
“We don’t like cheese, peanut butter or blue cheese... And I’m not changing any diapers — (mom and dad) can do that.”
Laura’s anxiety and excitement are mutual feelings in the Orta household as they wait for an email to let them know Evan is ready to meet them. Their first visit to Armenia, which they hope to take in June, will last a week and they plan to make the trip as a family.
After they return home, it will take four to six months to finalize the process and then the Ortas will bring their new son home after a monthlong trip back to Armenia. Christie hopes the new family of four will be together and settled in by Christmas, which, to her, would be the best present of all.
“I’ve already bought him a stocking at the day after Christmas sale. ... It’ll be a new normal once we get him home,” she said.
“We’re just anxious to have him home.”

HOW TO HELP
A tax deductible donation to the Ortas can be made online at reecesrainbow.org/76395/sponsororta. Donations can also be made to the Christie Orta Adoption Fund at any Wells Fargo Bank branch.

ON THE WEB
To follow the Ortas’ adoption journey, go to their blog at evan4theortas.weebly.com

This Holtsville, NY - Sag Harbor resident continues

to troll my websites.   He still feels he owes the person who purchased his daughter from 

a poor woman in Armenia, in the days of open adoptions- where if he had any connections could have

negotiated his own adoption.  Even after Robin's firing from Carolina Adoption Services he remains a 

loyal minion to the false savior of children. Reduced to saving overpriced severely disabled children of Armenia

and of those other obscure countries where Robin's nonsense flies under the radar.  He is a short midget lawyer who plays

in a rock band and praises Robin for adoption of muslims kids from Morocco to fake christian clients via Kefala ceremony.  What this manipulated midget doesn't understand is the damage one time BFF Jeannie Sobie has done and Bennet Kelley Yes a few remaining loyalists pseudo Armenians remain, but the old Yahoo group .......keeps it's distance after your true colors came out -       Hope the reunion was a success.  

As international adoptions drop to under 5,000 a year to the USA from a high of 22,000 (2005)  what obscure country is next ? 

Armenian Government will support the Children of Armenia Fund (COAF)

http://armenpress.am/eng/news/811472/government-will-support-the-fund-%E2%80%9Cchildren-of-armenia%E2%80%9D.html

Dr. Garo Armen started the COAF as a dream behind "it takes a village"  indeed, COAF has worked miracles in Armenia with the children and entire families.
With projects to build schools, clinics and homes the COAF projects get the parents working which is the catalyst for children being in orphanages (98% are social orphans- and have parents) 
The parents work building and receive a wage - they then can provide for their families without having to be fed, clothed and educated by an orphanage. 

What kind of future is there for Armenia with it's generations being raised by orphanages? They will become educated and take judo lessons, art lessons and music lessons at the many centers that are being built by Children of Armenia Fund. 
NOW in cooperation with the Government of Armenia.

 

 

 

 

Armenian Adoption Adventure- Armenia works to reduce number of children in orphanage for preferred foster homes

http://armenianow.com/society/55722/armenia_foster_families_program_orphanages_special_schools

 July 2, 2014

After years of resistance, the Armenian government has decided to take the advice of international organizations and introduce a foster family system that would make it possible to reduce the number of children attending the country’s orphanages and special schools.

“We should do everything for children to grow up in a family environment. Of course, it is most desirable that they grow within their biological family, but if it is not possible, then they should grow with foster parents, or, at least, in an environment with conditions close to family conditions,” said Minister of Labor and Social Affairs of Armenia Artem Sargsyan during July 1 public hearings dealing with children’s issues. (The hearings were initiated by the Child Protection Network and the Child Pact international organization.)

The minister said that foster families will help take the burden off orphanages and special schools by 50-60 percent and for the staff of these institutions not to become unemployed, the orphanages and special schools will be turned into social centers, as today’s 20 daycare and three social care facilities do not satisfy the corresponding needs of Armenia’s 915 communities.

At present, there are six state-run orphanages in Armenia attended by a total of 730 children. And although the number of healthy children in orphanages has been on the decline in recent years, their number at specialized children’s care centers, such as special schools, daycare or rehabilitation centers, continues to grow.

During their visits last year representatives of the Ombudsman’s Office found out that 30 percent of children at special schools are children without any special needs and their parents take them to orphanages because of social problems.

According to World Vision Armenia data, the parents of 70 percent of 350 children at five special schools of in Yerevan would take their children to general public schools if they got social support.

For reforms in the system USAID will provide $5 million to Armenia in the next five years so that the government makes no additional expenses.

Moreover, a study by the United Nations Children’s Fund shows that the government today spends $4,000 a year per child at an orphanage or a special institution, while in case of children’s living in foster families the spending would average $3,000 and the government would be able to save up to $1.8 million annually.

“Commonly child services need to be centered to the child, to the family, and it should be spread in Armenia and when having conversation with Armenian Diaspora one should seek co-financing for the state to realize the child protection policy,” Henriette Ahrens, representative of UNICEF Armenia, said during the hearing.

UNICEF Armenia Office representative Anna Harutyunyan added that paying primary attention to financing and conditions, representatives of the sphere pay only secondary attention to the child’s right to live in a family.

“The best place for children is their family, no matter what food or conditions they get there. Children want their mother, their family, we should make it the core of our operations.”

Harutyunyan said that two schools for children with special needs would be closed in Sisian and Goris this summer and from September the children of these schools will start attending public schools.

A foster family pilot program was launched in Armenia in 2008 when 24 children were placed in 23 families. Maga Ter-Hovhannisyan, an employee of the Children’s Support Foundation Center of the Fund for Armenian Relief, the organization that implements the program, considers the process to be a success, as many of the children continue to have contacts with their foster families even after they turn 18.

 

Adoption of Armenian children by non-Armenians Armenian Adoption

This blog has gotten many inquiries from Armenians and non-Armenians about adopting children in Armenia by non-Armenians (odars).  The short answer to that question is "Yes" it does happen and will happen.  The long answer is the willingness of non-Armenians to pay a lot of money to an Adoption/Abduction Service Provider and willingness to accept the fact it's not popular among Armenians. 

 

There are currently 3 American Adoption Service providers that operate in Armenia.  Of the 3 only 1 is willing to be truthful about non Armenians adopting only special needs children.  That agency is the one with the longest program in Armenia and it is called Carolina Adoption Services which was the ex employer of Robin Sizemore the Executive Director now of Hopscotch Adoptions.  An ex employee of Hopscotch Adoptions,  Jeanne Sobie heads up the Armenian program at Carolina Adoption Services.
It's no secret that Robin Sizemore attempted to sue me over 5 years ago, trying to intimidate me into silence about the truth.  However that pitiful lawsuit didn't make it passed a mediation or even close to a summary judgment after the mediation report brought up several issues about Robin Sizemore's dismissal from Carolina Adoption Agency.  It can be viewed here and has 1,400 views on it. http://www.slideshare.net/VanessaKachadurian/hopscotchmediation2?qid=42c507b9-3f82-4a52-8c55-5b315d579403&v=qf1&b=&from_search=1
Dispite the fact Robin Sizemore's flaky attorney Bennet Kelley actually filed charges to try and suppress it.  After he shamelessly put out fake press releases that he had won a significant victory of some sort.  What victory that is I am not sure?  Maybe Bennet and Robin got "Liar of the Year" award for spinning Robin's background into some sort of "child savior"

Local Armenians in Armenia are given first choice to adopt, however many cannot afford the huge fees that foreign providers pump into the Armenian economy by way of in country "contractors" so if a local person wants to adopt a child it is roughly $800.00.  A lot of money to people in Armenia - so naturally many Americans will have the opportunity to adopt.  Hopscotch Adoptions has a large following of non Armenians who have adopted.  No applications are turned down for this program or discouraged by Hopscotch Adoptions.  Carolina Adoption Services has even discouraged some Armenians from adopting because of the difficulty finding healthy children.  Carolina Adoption Services does a great job in setting expectations to applicants. 
Hopscotch Adoptions has accepted applications from people who were newly married (a couple in Washington State) after 4 years of waiting and 1 child falling through the system and being returned back to her biological father this couple did finally succeed.

Another Hispanic woman from New Mexico named Regina Soto, got caught in the Russian Adoption BAN and switched to Hopscotch Adoptions barely 1 year ago.  She has just returned home with her new Armenian baby girl. 

Robin Sizemore attempted to have this picture removed.
The country of Armenia, Ministry of Social Affairs would like to know
what are you trying to hide? 

NOTE: Google Blogger contacted this blog and stated that someone had filed a fake copyright

on the above photo, they as precaution removed the photo.  It has been put back up pending

proof of "copyrights" to a child.  Armenia if you are reading, this is the kind of slight of hand

tactics used by Robin Sizemore who works real hard to clean up her image and that of the

adoption industry in general.  If and when, Ms. Robin Sizemore can prove copyrights to this little girl

we will remove the photo but not until that proof is provided.  Remember she has no jurisdiction in Armenia or anywhere else for that matter.  Eduard Amalyan continues to not pay taxes in Armenia.  While our military has no retirement, families struggle and move to Russia to find jobs.  

NOTE: REGINA SANTO CLAIMS TO OWN THE CHILD AND THE DOG IN HER COMPLAINT

I GUESS SHE IS CLUELESS ABOUT HOW HER MONEY WAS USED TO PURCHASE SOMEONE ELSE'S CHILD AND GAIN RELINQUISHMENT RIGHTS.   Some Armenians are so poor that they will take money and

sell their kids to overweight Mexican Slobs like Regina that want a BAYBEE so bad they are willing to look the

other way.  Here is a message to you Regina from the family of your new purchase: You will NEVER own that little girl she is the daughter of a poor family in Armenia who had no money, so you brought your money to Armenia and purchased a BAYBEE.  Make her into a self centered American slob like you.

 

 

Robin has discouraged many Armenians from Adopting in Armenia. Some have waited over 3 years for a child/baby and have seen countless odars like Regina Soto, Beth Shepherd, MariBeth Driver, and Shelly Pritchert be fast tracked to adoption of Armenian children.  So with caution to those of you waiting to adopt, don't think for one minute your Armenian heritage or ethnicity matters to Robin Sizemore.  In Fact, Robin Sizemore is very much into feeling powerful about who can adopt and believes she has the right to decide who adopts Armenian Children.   Robin cares less about the economic situations that forced the majority of the women to relinquish their children and believes those children are better off with her paying clients. Here is a post on Regina Soto's facebook page shortly after arriving back from Armenia from Robin declaring "Thanks God she has you as her mother"

 

Really Robin?  It's not your place to decide such things, just shut up and collect the $35,000+ in fees and disperse among the "contractors" in Armenia.  Make Eduard Amalyan more wealthy so he can spread the wealth in Armenia.  That little girl has a mother and father in Armenia, but now will never see their daughter again because you decided it's in their best interest to be purchased by your clients.

Robin knows how to work the emotions of clients waiting for a child, even calling the child "your child" before the court date or blaming the country every time something goes wrong or worst yet the US State Department for being anti - adoption. 

 

 

To Fellow Armenians that feel discouraged each time Robin treads on your culture, you have a choice.  1) Continue to support her business and wait in line  2)  Drop your application as many Armenians have and switch countries   3)  Consider adopting Armenian children out of foster care in California's LA county  4)  Adopt via surrogacy program in Armenia (relatively new) 

 

ARTICLES ON ARMENIAN ADOPTIONS AND ROBIN SIZEMORE

 

 



Armenian Adoption Adventure, Sponsor a Child in Armenia via World Vision

http://www.worldvision.org/our-impact/country-profiles/armenia

 

World Vision has great projects in Armenia, they work on developing the environment the children live in - clean water, sustainable crops and developing jobs for their parents.  For the single mothers they have camps for them and educational events on health and child care.  I personally have seen it first hand and am very impressed.  World Vision works in over 50 countries and you can donate online and sponsora  particular child or Life Line Christian Stories has a program that has in store cards for sponsoring a child. 

Armenian Adoption US State Deparment another "ALERT"

One can only guess why the Armenian Adoption Authority had to release another "ADOPTION ALERT" for Armenia.   She is up to her old tricks giving misinformation, and her former friend that now works for her former employer is blabbing all of the secrets and lies. 
So read and heed and remember if any adoption agency claims to "having staff" in country refers to "having an office" in Armenia its all a LIE.  July 2014 Hague is going to require that the in country facilitator that also IDENTIIFIES the child be Hague accrediated to the SAME standard as the ASP they provide services for.  No more can the ASP (Adoption Service Provider) turn their head and claim ignorance.  

Reminder: Adoption Processing in Armenia

May 12, 2014

 

This Adoption Alert is a follow up to the Alert of March 13, 2014

 

The U.S. Embassy in Yerevan has received reports that prospective adoptive parents are being given misleading information about the adoption process in Armenia.  Specifically, there may be misleading information as to who is authorized to provide adoption services and which children are eligible for intercountry adoption.  

 

Please note that Armenian law does not authorize professional facilitators, adoption agencies, or attorneys to provide adoption services in Armenia; it allows prospective adoptive parents and adoption service providers to grant a power of attorney to an individual to handle most aspects of the adoption process on their behalf.  These individuals can only provide limited legal services and complete the process in Armenia through direct contact with the Ministry of Justice.

 

Contact information for the adoption authority and the U.S. Embassy in Armenia is listed below:

 

ARMENIA’S ADOPTION AUTHORITY:

The Ministry of Justice

41A Halabyan Street

Yerevan, Armenia

Tel: 374-10-319-093

Internet: www.gov.am

Email: stepanyan.argam@gmail.com

 

The Department of State will provide updated information on adoption.state.gov as it becomes available.  If you have any questions about this notice, please contact the Office of Children’s Issues at 1-888-407-4747 within the United States, or 202-501-4444 from outside the United States.  Email inquiries may be directed to AdoptionUSCA@state.gov.