To make matters worse, she barely recognizes the boy she fell in love with in his band persona, and the prospect of spending so much time with him has her questioning her ability to do her job.Īs Jack and Kerrigan work to turn the band around, they struggle to overcome the secrets that have kept them apart. After returning home, the last thing she expected was that her new job was to manage his failing band. Kerrigan Dodd has spent the past four years living in Europe, trying to forget that Jackson, the only man she’s ever loved, walked out of her life six years earlier.
When she suddenly shows up as his band’s new manager, he realizes that, despite his best efforts, his feelings for her haven’t changed a bit. When he was ready to declare his love to her, she rejected him, sending him back into a tailspin of bad behavior.įour years later, he’s focused on his struggling band, the women who want him, and still trying to forget the one who didn’t. Coupled with the emergence of a neoliberal adoption market, the focus on adoptive invisibility may help explain the significant numbers of abuse and death cases of Eastern European adoptees at the hands of their US parents as compared to other adoptee populations.Jackson Harris fell in love with his best friend’s sister, but at her brother’s request, he stepped out of her life to clean up his act. While the myth of a shared racial identity confers immense and immediate privilege onto Eastern European adoptees even before their arrival in the United States, it also enables parents to ignore their children's national differences as well as the neoliberal transformations in the former USSR that have shaped the conditions for their children's relinquishment and displacement from their birth countries, languages, and cultures through transnational adoption.
The authors' belief that they share a preexisting racial identity with children from Eastern Europe expands to the global plane the US notion that "whiteness" accords racial and economic privilege to all those of European descent in the United States. In the memoirs under examination, parents eschew the traditional humanitarian narrative of adoption and portray themselves as consumers who have the right to select "white" children from an international adoption market in order to form families whose members look as though they could be biologically related. This analysis of the most influential works speculatively highlights underexamined connections between the US media focus on adoption failures and the centrality of race in adoption from Eastern Europe. This essay explores the recent surge in US parental memories of adoption from Russia and Ukraine. This article identifies patterns and makes recommendations for practice, with the goal of reducing risk of harm to children placed internationally. The remaining agencies include well-regarded organizations, and several directors contributed their perspectives. Most placements involved agencies founded within 15 years before the child fatality, and several subsequently closed, three amid scandals unrelated to the deaths. In four situations, parents either were not charged or were found not guilty. Mothers frequently pled guilty to various charges, typically less serious than murder. Parents were traditional couples under severe parenting stress who usually had other children, often including additional preschoolers and/or homeschoolers. Most of the children who died had multiple injuries characteristic of battered child syndrome. The article concludes that many of the child deaths involved recently placed boys, frequently age 3 or younger, most with special needs or challenging behaviours, and often placed along with siblings. It first reviews relevant literature, then profiles demographic and policy trends, followed by analysis of risk factors derived from public media reports related to the children, families, and placing agencies in 19 known cases of death of Russian children in U.S. This article addresses the ultimate risk in child placement, fatality, in the context of international adoption.
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