Waiting Children
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Adoptable children from Latvia's Ministry of Welfare
Children Recently Added:
Girls:
Girl born on August 9, 1998: She has blue-grayish eyes and blond hair. She is interested in singing and fine arts and wants to be adopted. Her school results are average. She is very accurate, takes care of her appearance, and doesn't like restrictions. Sometimes she can have a lack of self control. It is difficult for her to finish what she has started. She is diagnosed as physically healthy. The biological parental rights were terminated in December of 2010. There were dangerous conditions in her biological family and she suffered from physical and emotional violence. She has received counseling.
Girl born on October 3, 1996: She has brown eyes and hair. She does well in school and is friendly and kind hearted. She loves spending free time with her friends, enjoys participating in different activities and likes fashion. She wants to be adopted and have a family. Her medical diagnosis is practically healthy. Her biologial parental rights were terminated in January of 2010.
Boys:
Boy born December 16, 1997: He has gray eyes and light brown hair. He is active and curious and wants to keep himself busy at all times. He is open, helpful, kind hearted, and enjoys nature. He shows his love to those he trusts by making sweet little surprises. He needs positive encouragement and a peaceful environment. He has initiative to do his work and has good contact with other children. He can be impulsive and has difficulty adapting to too many people. He is smart and studies in a special program. He needs help planning his time and managing his school work and social relationships. Medical diagnosis is light mental backwardness with essential behavior and emotional disorders. Juvenile idiopathic arthritis. Needs monitoring of a rheumatologist.
Boy born August 13, 2002: He has gray eyes and brown hair. He is friendly, active, sincere, and sweet. He has learning and concentration difficulties at school. He is in the first grade for the second year because of them. He needs help and special attention while doing his school work. He prefers to be with adults. He loves to play outside and loves singing. He has worked through the negative behavior he observed while in his biological family. His medical diagnosis is light mental backwardness and he has a lazy eye. Parental rights have been terminated.
Sibling Groups:
3 children: older brother born on August 17, 1996, younger brother born on May 23, 2000, and a sister born on January 13, 2004. Older brother has gray eyes and light brown hair. Average school results. He is responsive but lacks patience and diligence. He likes sport like bike riding, handball, and mountain climbing. He also likes the computer. He wants to be adopted and live together with his brother and sister. He and his brother have conflict about who is the best. He is very sensitive and has tics when he is worried (winking of the eyes). He needs emotional support and patience as he has difficulty expressing his opinions. The younger brother has light brown hair and eyes. He has good learning capacities but is not very diligent. He likes bicycles and computer games and enjoys helping others cook. He too wants a family with his siblings. He gets along well with his sister but often argues with his brother. He is warm hearted and docile and likes to be the center of attention. The sister has gray eyes and light brown hair. She has good learning capacities and always particpates in the activities. She likes to play with dolls and enjoys others reading to her. Sometimes she has difficulty concentrating. She wants a family and has a good relationship with both brothers. She wants to be the center of attention, likes to help cooking, and needs a lot of attention and tenderness.
3 children: older sister born October 23, 2000, younger sister born March 23, 2003, and a brother born November 1, 2004 Older sister has blue eyes and blond hair. She is in the 3rd grade and is in a special program because of learning troubles. It is difficult for her to pay attention. School results are very good. She is active and likes to sing and dance, perform, draw, and play computer games. She is helpful and always helps with housework. She has had problems in the past with stealing but the foster family has worked with her and this problem has diminshed. The younger sister has brown eyes and brown hair. She is always happy, sweet, and calm. She is very slow and needs more time to do homework. She studies at the first grade level and can read, write, and do math. She likes to sing, draw, and dance. The brother has brown eyes and is a very sweet, active, happy, and smart boy. He can be stubborn and doesn't like to be corrected. He studies in pre school and is working on his letters and numbers. He enjoys playing with toy cars and likes outside activities. These children have suffered from emotional violence and neglect. They have received counseling.
- Boy, born on 23rd of December 2007:
- boy has blue eyes, blond hair, he is very sweet, not aggressive, has good contact with other children, has quick mood changes, often cries, doesn’t speak, responds to his name, walks with support, crawls, can place the toys in the box;
- boy has born to the 19 years old mother, from her 1st pregnancy, in the 1st delivery, with weight of 3300g, height – 54cm. Mother has mental backwardness, was not under the doctor’s surveillance during the pregnancy. Child has started to sit at the age of 12 months, to crawl – at the age of 1 year and 10 months, to walk with support – at the age of 2 years and 2 months, the first teeth came out when he was 1 year and 4 months old;
- medical diagnosis – mental and physical backwardness. Symptomatic epilepsy;
- further treatment – Depakine suspension (against the cramps), symptomatic therapy;
- from 15th October 2008 until 15th June 2009 boy resided in the foster family, but foster parents were not able to continue their duties because of child’s health problems – boy was too nervous, cried without reason, has lost consciousness for two times (inflexible legs and arms, without breathing, had blue –greyish skin colour). Since 4th of January 2010 boy resides in different foster family, before he was in the orphanage, where he has had one epileptic attack. Since he lives in the actual foster family he has not had any attacks. Foster parents don’t want adopt child, they considers that adoption corresponds to child’s best interests;
- by court judgment mother has been deprived from custody rights in September 2009, paternity has not been stated, in January 2009 mother has given a written agreement to the adoption. Mother abandoned her son, didn’t take care of him neither showed imitative of upbringing him on her own;
- boy doesn’t have other siblings.
- Older brother, born on 7th of April 2007, and younger brother, born on 15th of August 2008:
- older brother is 3 years and 1 month old, he has blue eyes and brown hair, he is active, open, has positive development dynamics and he has made great progress during the last year, child has become emotionally active, happy, not aggressive, communicable, he likes contact with adults and other children, especially with ones he knows, reserved with unknown people, it is necessary to purchase his trust, he reacts on his name, is interested in toys corresponding the age, can concentrate for short period of time, he likes individual attention, understand the indications, wants to participate in all kind of activities, he likes the music very much, he tries to „dance”, to move in the rhythm of music. Boy is ready to cooperate, to be docile, sometimes can be stubborn, but it is possible to make an agreement with him by talking. He has difficulties to fall asleep, but there is an improvement. The language – sounds, syllables, understands everything;
- child was born to the 29 years old mother, from her 5th pregnancy, in her 5th delivery, in the 30th week of pregnancy, with weight 1659g, height – 40cm, head perimeter – 29cm, chest perimeter – 24cm, Apgar’s Score – 5/7. during the pregnancy, mother was not under doctor’s surveillance, there is no closer information on pregnancy and prenatal development of the child. On 8th January boy weighted 13kg and was 80cm tall;
- child has started to walk independently at the age of 1 year and 9 months;
- medical diagnosis – antenatal defect of central nervous system, alcohol fetopathy. Delay of psychomotor and language development. persistent and exogenous bronchial asthma, remission. Hidrocele. Prophylactic anti-syphilis therapy in anamnesis. Premature III;
- further necessary treatment – surveillance of pediatrician, neurologist, allergologist, exercises with speech therapist, remedial gymnastics, water procedures, massages;
- younger brother is 1 year and 10 months old, he has blue eyes, brown hair. Boy is emotionally active, positive, calm, attractive, smiling, is interested in toys corresponding to his age, understand indications, communicable, not aggressive. Language – sounds. Appetite is good, can eat independently, sleeps well;
- child was born to the 31 years old mother, from her 6th pregnancy, in her 6th delivery, with weight 2270g, height – 45cm, head perimeter – 31cm, chest perimeter – 30cm, Apgar’s Score – 9/9. during the pregnancy, mother was not under doctor’s surveillance, there is no closer information on pregnancy and prenatal development of the child. On 15th January boy weighted 8615 and was 75cm tall;
- child has started to sit at the age of 1 year and 3 months, to crawl – at the age of 12 months, to walk independently at the age of 1 year and 6 months, first teeth came out when he was 12 months old;
- medical diagnosis – prenatal defect of central nervous system with muscular dystony syndrome, alcohol fetopathy. Delay of psychomotor development. Persistent bronchial asthma, remission. Allergy on cow milk products. Myopiae congenita. Prophylactic anti-syphilis therapy in anamnesis;
- further necessary treatment – surveillance of pediatrician, neurologist, allergologist, control of oculist, remedial gymnastics, water procedures, massages;
- by court judgment parents have been deprived from custody rights in October 2009, children were neglected, parents have alcohol dependency problems;
- children have one older sister and three older brother, they live in other orphanage, and one older step sister, who live with her mother, the decision of Orphan’s Court on separation of the children in case of adoption has been made;
- because of health problems of the both children, Orphan’s Court has made the decision on separation of the children in case of adoption. The separation would be possible if there would not be possible to find a family willing to adopt both boys. Also the priority will go to those adopters, who live close to each other to help children to keep in touch also after the separate adoption.
- Girl, born on 9th of November 2009:
- blue-greyish eyes, blond hair. She fixes and leads the regard, holds her head, emotional development corresponds to the age, has good appetite, has no digestive problems, has positive development dynamics, even there is light psychomotor development retardation, sometimes she is anxious, has difficulties to fall asleep, emotionally active. Likes individual attention, especially physical contact with an adult, is interested in other children, in toys, she can grasp a toy and hold in her hands, answers to a contact, smile in an adequate way, she is joyful. At the age of 5 months girl weighted 6kg and was 62cm tall, head perimeter – 43cm, chest perimeter – 41cm. the girl’s head is proportionally bigger but hydrocephaly has not been stated;
- child was born to the 18 years old mother, from her 1st pregnancy, in her 1st delivery, in the 28./29. week of gestation with weight of 1320g, height – 37cm, 6/6 points by Apgar’s scale. After the birth, girl was placed in the incubator to receive oxygen feeding. During the pregnancy, mother has not been under the doctor’s surveillance, there is no information on pregnancy and prenatal development of the child;
- medical diagnosis – prematurity, prenatal encephalopathy with psychomotor development retardation, situation after the intra ventricular hemorrhage and bacterial meningitis, anemia;
- further necessary treatment – surveillance of neurologist and oculist, physiotherapy, anemia treatment;
- the maternity and paternity has not been stated, child has been registered as the foundling.
- Boy, born on 6th of July 2008:
- brown eyes, dark brown hair. Child has severe physical development and movement retardation, he is sleeping, he can’t roll, sit, crawl, can’t hold the toy in his hands, language: sounds;
- child was born to the 21 years old mother, from her 2nd pregnancy, in her 2nd delivery, in the 7th months of pregnancy, with weight of 2800g, height – 46cm. During the pregnancy, mother has not been under the doctor’s surveillance, there is no information on pregnancy and prenatal development of the child. The first teeth came out at the age of 11 months;
- medical diagnosis – organic damage of central nervous system because of posttraumatic hemorrhage with syndrome of microcephaly. Secondary hydrocephaly (situation after the shunting). Symptomatic epilepsy, spastic paraparesis. Psychomotor backwardness, visually impaired;
- further necessary treatment – consultation of neurologist, surveillance and control of oculist, anti-cramps therapy, rehabilitation;
- by court judgment the mother has been deprived from custody rights in November 2009, paternity has not been stated. Mother abandoned her son at her boyfriend’s (he might be the child’s father), who is drug addict without any care. Child got sever cerebral trauma and sis not received medical help on time. As the result of his trauma, child became disabled. Mother has visited her son twice in the orphanage, she is also the drug addict;
- boys have one older step-brother, who is in the process of adoption with local adopters. The decision of Orphan’s Court on separation of the children in case of adoption has been made.
- Boy, born on 10th of April 1998:
- blue-greenish eyes, light brown hair. Boy is friendly, but he becomes aggressive during the conflict situations. He is honest, helpful, quick-tempered, quickly takes an offence. Boy needs individual contact to make a good relationship with him, he becomes aggressive if someone is provoking him. He studies in the special boarding school, school results are good, but has no patience of long activities. He likes decorating, computer games, luge in the winter and swimming in the summer;
- child was born from her 2nd pregnancy, in the 1st delivery (at home) with weight of 2490g, height – 47cm;
- medical diagnosis – light mental backwardness with behaviour problems;
- further necessary treatment – consultation of psychiatrist and psychologist, medical therapy (by psychiatrist);
- by court judgment mother has been deprived from custody rights in January 2010, father died in 2005. mother did not take care of her child, was cruel, child has suffered from emotional violence;
- child doesn’t have any siblings.
- Boy, born on 27th of June 2004:
- blue eyes, blond hair. Boy is social, gentle, contacts well with adults and other children, but sometimes he can be nervous, capricious and stubborn, has non-adequate emotions. The cognition process are delayed, interest and concentration capacities are instable, quickly switches from one activity to an other, the regulation of the activity is weak, is necessary to help him;
- child was born to the 41 years old mother from the 4th pregnancy, in the 4th delivery, with weight of 2600g. at the age of 1 year boy the diagnosis “the retardation of motor development” has been stated, but he did not received the necessary treatment, prescribed by neurologist. Boy wears glasses since age of 11 months and since this age he has occlusions for the left eye 4 hours every day. The self service skills are well developed, he understands the spoken language, speaks in full sentences, but has some pronunciation problems. The attention is instable, the interest in toys is primitive;
- medical diagnosis – antenatal organic damage of central nervous system. Microcephaly. not précised mental backwardness. Language development retardation. Hypotrophy. The invalidity has been stated;
- further necessary treatment – control and surveillance of oculist, exercises with speech therapist;
- by court judgment parents have deprived from custody rights in January 2010. Mother is alcohol abused, doesn’t work, visits child regularly in the orphanage. Person who has been registered as child’s father is not his biological (the marriage was not divorced);
- boy has one major stepsister and one major stepbrother, and ne major sister, who doesn’t want to be separated from brother and doesn’t agree to his adoption abroad, but she doest understand that boy has serious health problems and it is not possible for him to live in the biological family as there are no appropriate living conditions.
- Boy, born on 16th August, 1998:
- blue eyes, blond hair. Boy likes animals, swimming and playing, has difficulties to study, but he puts a lot of effort to do it. His behaviour and action correspond to the 6-7 years old child. Boy has been brought up by the men, but he is gentle and sensitive, he is Christian. Boy wants to live in the family and agrees to go abroad, he would like to be adopted in USA or France;
- child was born to the 33 years old mother from her 3rd pregnancy, in the 3rd delivery, with weight of 3140, height – 52cm. during the pregnancy mother has not been under the doctor’s surveillance;
- medical diagnosis – healthy;
- further treatment is not necessary;
- child lives in the foster family since March 2008, foster parents do not want to adopt the child;
- by court judgment parents have been deprived from custody rights in November 2009. parents did not care of the child, they are alcohol abused, boy has suffered from the violence. Parents have not showed interest in his current wellbeing and in his future;
- child has two major brothers, they have not expressed the wish to cake care of the child.
- Girl, born on 14th of March 2002:
- brown eyes, black hair. Girl is good at needlework, drawing, writing, has difficulties in mathematics. She is active and sincere, has to have all the attention. Girl has ocular prosthesis for her left eye. She wants to live in the family;
- medical diagnosis – situation after the congenital heart disease (open arterial duct surgery has been made in May 2003). Multiple congenital anomalies – secondary scoliosis with congenital anomalies of the back vertebras L1-L3. the dystrophy of the left kidney (in form of “L”), Anophthalmia of the left side. Language development retardation. The consequences of hypoxia of central nervous system – psychomotor development retardation. The disability has been stated;
- further medical treatment – nootrpic medicine, eye drops if necessary;
- by court judgment mother has been deprived from custody rights in October 2009, paternity has not been stated. Mother is alcohol abused, doesn’t work, has never visited her child in the orphanage, none of the relatives has never showed interest in her current wellbeing and in her future;
- girl doesn’t have any siblings.
- Four children: the oldest brother, born on 20th of April 1999, sister, born on 15th of June, 2005, middle brother, born on 26th of February 2007, and younger stepbrother, born on 13th of December 2008:
- the oldest brother has blue eyes, dark brown hair. Child is 11 years old, but he studies only in the 2nd grade of the elementary school - while living in the biological family he didn’t study at all, for the moment he is pedagogically neglected. His mother’s tongue is Russian, he has difficulties to speak in Latvian. Boy has good results in mathematics, but he has difficulties with reading and he is shy to ask if he doesn’t know something. Boy is helpful, sweet, social, always ready to help in all kind of works, also he can be very active, loud, aggressive against the younger children. Child has suffered from emotional violence, negligence, has seen their parents abusing alcohol, fighting and arguing. Boy is emotionally very attached to her mother, he has called her several times from the orphanage, but she was always drunk. Sometimes boy was visiting his father’s family but it’s new family didn’t accept him. Boy has good and close relationship with the sister, not with the two younger brothers as they live in other orphanage. Child wants to be adopted abroad with his sister and brothers;
- boy has special needs, he follows the medical treatment – Buronil, Truxal, he has received treatment in the psycho neurological hospital. The specialists have advised to continue the studies following the special program for the students with mental troubles;
- medical diagnosis – F91.2 (social behaviour troubles), F81.3 (mixed learning troubles), F91.1 (non social behaviour troubles), F07.0 (organic personality troubles);
- sister has brown eyes, dark brown hair, she is brave, smiling, attractive, loud, can take care of herself. Girl studies in the nursery school. Child has suffered from emotional violence, negligence, has seen their parents abusing alcohol, fighting and arguing. Girl has good and close relationship with the oldest brother, not with the two younger brothers as they live in other orphanage;
- medical diagnosis – somatically healthy;
- middle brother has brown eyes, light brown hair, he is emotionally labile, sensitive, vulnerable, contacts well with adults, even with the persons he doesn’t know, he has attached to the persons who takes care of him in the orphanage. He has high cognition capacities, is interested in everything, knows colors, shapes, sizes, he is open and smiling, wants to have physical contact, wants to have attention and appreciation of the adult, if he has it, he becomes very happy. Boy is very helpful, he enjoys being helpful. He contacts well with children, he can play and help them. The self-service skills are well developed, has understanding about the day rhythm, entire world, animals, objects, etc.;
- child was born to the 27 years old mother. There is no information about prenatal development. at the moment of the arrival in the orphanage boy was 1 year and 5 months old – he could walk, the motor development was in norm, the speech development was retarded. Child has received the help of speech therapist. The opinion of the speech therapist on 2nd of February 2010 – insufficient language development, expressive speech – small works and sentences. General and fine motoric is normal, coordination is good, boy is active, assiduous, makes eye contact, understands indications. Enjoys playing with blocks, puzzles, pyramids, etc. He knows the arts of the body, difference the objects by color and size. The self service skills are well developed. In contact with other children he is helpful, wants to be a leader, if anything happens in away he doesn’t want, he becomes aggressive, cries. Boy sleeps well;
- medical diagnosis – somatically healthy. Light language development retardation;
- further necessary treatment – exercises with speech therapist, dental treatment;
- younger stepbrother has brown eyes, light brown hair, he can walk independently, he enjoys being outside and observing the nature, musical activities, he listens carefully, can imitate the sounds of animals, etc. he can eat independently. Boy often wants to have all the attention, if he wants something, he does everything to get it. With unknown people he is very serious, observes carefully, but is not afraid;
- child was born to the 28 years old mother from her 5th pregnancy, in the 4th delivery, at home, with weight of 4490g, height – 53cm, 8/9 by Apgar’s score. Four days after giving the birth to the child, mother and child were placed in the hospital, mother abandoned him there, but after 10 days took the baby without saying. After these actions, child was taken from the biological family and placed in the orphanage. During the pregnancy mother was not under doctor’s surveillance. Child has started to sit at the age of 8 months, to crawl – at the age of 9 moths, to walk independently – at the age of 13,5 months, the first teeth came out when he was 6 moths old;
- medical diagnosis – practically healthy;
- by a court judgment, the parents of three oldest children have been deprived from custody rights in December 2009, parents of the youngest brother – in January 2010. Mother is alcohol abused and drug addict, she did not provide the appropriate living conditions for their children. The father of three older children didn’t take care of the children, he has a new family now. In the Court father has announced that he doesn’t live with the mother of the children since 2003 and his son is only the oldest boy, but his new family doesn’t want to take care of him. Parents have never visited children, they have never showed interest in their current wellbeing and in their future;
- three older children has two minor sisters, but they live with their parents, who take care of them, the decision of the orphan’s court on separation of the children in case of adoption has been made.
- Boy, born on 21st of June 1997:
- brown eyes, brown hair. Child is kind hearted, likes singing, has a good sense of rhythm, is interested in computer games, is hyperactive. Boy wants to get all he wants, if he doesn’t succeed he becomes aggressive, he has received the treatment in the psycho neurological hospital. Psychologist has work with the child and considers that the intercountry adoption corresponds to child’s best interests. Boy wants to be adopted abroad, he would like to live in France or in Netherlands;
- child was born with the weight of 2120g, height – 47cm;
- medical diagnosis – bronchial asthma, moderate;
- further necessary treatment – the consultations of the doctors one a year if necessary. Consultations of psychologist;
- from September 2007 till July 2009 boy had a legal guardian – his major sister, but he couldn’t do her duties because of the personal problems of making relationship between them;
- by court judgment the mother has been deprived from custody rights in may 2008, paternity has not been stated. Mother is alcohol abused, didn’t take care of him, didn’t let a boy to ho to school, boy was nervous, suffered from physical violence;
- boy has two brother, who are dead, and two major sisters, who don’t want to take care of the boy.
- Four children: the oldest sister, born on 9th of September 2001, brother, born on 23rd of September 2002, middle sister, born on 28th of December 2003, and youngest sister, born on 11th of March 2008:
- eldest sister has grey eyes, blond hair, she is interested in many different activities, likes to take a part in many events. Girl has good school results, she likes to sing, takes part in sportive activities. The girl is friendlily with other children, respects adults, is teachable. The child was taken from biological family because of emotional abuse. Out-of-family care institution provides the girl with regular consultations of psychologist and individual social rehabilitation plan. The girl needs family-oriented environment;
- child was born from the 5th pregnancy, in her 3rd delivery with weight of 3520g, height – 53cm. The child’s mother was under supervision of doctor during her pregnancy. The child started to sit and to crawl from the age of 7 month;
- medical diagnosis – emotional and behavioral disorder, dyslalia;
- brother has grey eyes, blond hair. His mother tong is Russian, but he perfectly speaks Latvian as well. The boy has average physical development, he likes soccer and to attend individual classes. The boy has difficulties to concentrate the attention and obey the rules, has superficial attitude towards the studies. The child has been taken out from biological family because physical and emotional abuse. Out-of-family care institution provides the boy with regular consultations of psychologist and social rehabilitation according to an individual plan. The boy has affection for adults, particularly expects individual attention;
- child has born to the 23 years old mother, from the 4th pregnancy, in her 2nd delivery with weight of 3350g, height – 52cm. The child started to sit from the age of 8 month, to walk by holding and to speak syllables from the age of 1 year and 1 month.
- medical diagnosis – hyperkinetic syndrome, F90.0 (disorder of activities and attention). Disorder of behavior and speech development. OU Hypermetrophy. Caries;
- middle sister has grey eyes, blond hair. The girl has short term memory, unstable nervous system. Her mother tongue is Russian, but she has learned Latvian language in short period of time. She is very interested in different events, however the interest is unsteady. The child has been taken out from biological family because emotional abuse. Out-of-family care institution provides the girl with regular consultations of psychologist and social rehabilitation according to an individual plan. The girl has affection for adults’;
- the child was born from the 7th pregnancy, in her 5th delivery with weight of 3160g, height – 48cm;
- medical diagnosis – mixed emotional and behavioral disorder, dyslalia. F98.8 (other emotional and behavioral disorder, that usually appear in childhood an adolescence), F80.0 (disorder of speech articulation). OU astigmatism, ambliopy, flatfoot;
- youngest sister has brown eyes, dark brown, curly hair. Child’s psychomotor development corresponds to his age. The girl is joyful, responsive, likes to make eye contact. She likes to engage in conversations with someone or in groups. She shows the interest about any topic during the lessons, likes to be actively involved. Mild disorder of speech development. The girl understands daily conversation very well. Knows different part of the body. If asked she finds the toy she recently played with. The girl comprehends the nature or simple pictures, likes when somebody reds to her. The girl understands more than can express. She has expressive speech: uses the words of 2 – 3 syllables (sometimes the mistakes of word structure and sounds pronunciation can be observed). She asks: “What is this?”. She uses 1 – 2 to sentences in order to describe an action. The speech is accompanied by gestures, replies with “yes, no”, insufficient vocabulary (15 words). Repeats the words that she hears in conversations. The girl is placed in out-of-family care institution since 24th of March, 2010 where all the other children are. Before that the girl was in an other out-of-family care institution. Her mother visited the girl there only twice just after her placement in this out-of-family care institution. However the grandmother visited the girl regularly;
- there are no information on the child’s birth and no data on mother’s pregnancy. There is information on development of the child: the child started to sit from the age of 7,5 month, crawl from 8 month, to walk from 1 year, to speak from 2 years, first teeth from 5 month. The weight – 10,7kg and height – 80cm at the age of 2 years;
- medical diagnosis – somatically healthy;
- further treatment is not needed;
- by court judgment the mother and the father of her sister have been deprived from custody rights in January 2010. The paternity for the brother, the middle sister and the youngest sister is not determined;
- the middle sister has one minor stepsister, one minor stepbrother, one minor brother and one minor sister, who are in parents care. The Orphans court has made the decision to separate the children in a case of adoption.
- Boy, born on 24th of April, 2000 (repeatedly included in the list of adoptable children):
- blue eyes, light brown hair. The boy resides in foster family since 10th of April, 2007. The boy has serious health problems, but he is very nice and sweet. If somebody treats very well to him the boy shows close affection. The boy wants do everything by himself but somebody needs to show an example. He likes cooking and gardening. The boy is very balanced, he likes to do the things on his own, does not like if he disturbed. Then he might become aggressive. The boy always expects love, because he lacks it;
- child has born to the 24 years old mother, from the 2nd pregnancy, in her 2nd delivery with weight of 1350g, height – 40cm. The child started to sit from the age of 1 year and 4 month, crawl from 1 year and 6 month, walk from 2 years and 8 month, speak from 3 years, first tooth from 8 month. The boy is using a hearing aid;
- characterization from the school (22.02.2010.): he studies at 2nd grade at boarding-school for children with hearing problems – after a special program made for children with mental and hearing disorders. The boy can concentrate his attention not longer than for 5 – 10 minutes. He is able to write numbers and letters from the sample. The boy can repeat a few sounds after teacher. He is good at coloring pictures and cutting after template. The boy can not count, can not show the letters with dactyl, do not master sign language. Individual work with pedagogue is needed. The boy likes to play on his own. When he is in the group he becomes loud mostly because he needs to share with the things. The boy shows the anger by screaming, by braking toys, hitting with an arm to the table, sometimes he is aggressive to other children. He tries to calm down by swinging and sucking fingers. The boy is impulsive, is able to concentrate attention to the activity which he is interested in;
- psychologist (26.01.2010.) – the boy poorly cooperates and makes contact. Performs simple tasks after example. Positive development of dynamics is observed. Conclusion – reduced nonverbal cognitive abilities (corresponds to 8 year old child), substantially reduced verbal abilities because of partially-deafness. Suggested to continue special teaching program for the children with disorder of hearing and mental development;
- medical diagnosis – bilateral senso neural hearing deficiency (V grade). Disorder of language and speech development. Celiac disease. Myopia. Mixed disorders of development. There has been stated invalidity for the child;
- further treatment – regular use of hearing aid. Suggested to continue special teaching program for the children with disorder of hearing and mental development. Repeated consultation of psychiatrist is needed. Suggested to continue to use Lucetam (0,4x2 a day – in the morning and at noon for 2 month) Magne B6 (1 pill a day for 1 month). Regular monitoring in the Hearing center, repeated rehabilitation after some time;
- both parents of the boy have been deprived from custody rights by the Court verdict. Parents or any other relatives have never showed an interest about the boy;
- child has 2 brothers and 1 sister who have been adopted to USA July 208. The boy has never met his siblings as he lives in the foster family, but siblings lived in out-of-family care institution. At the beginning the information about the adopters were provided on all 4 children, but as this boy has such health problems, family refused to adopt all the children together by expressing the wish to adopt only the brothers and the sister.
- Girl, born on 18th of January 2006:
- she has blue eyes, brown-grayish hair, On May 11th, 2010 height – 57cm (short), weight – 10kg, perimeter of the head – 44cm, she has disproportional face, the motoric development of the girl corresponds to her age, she is nimble, active, moving. She understands and performs simple instructions, tries to say her name, pronunciation is unstructured. Her language development is delayed, the self service skills do not correspond to her age. The girl only partly understands the language, speaks in 2 languages (Latvian and Russian) by mixing them. Low vocabulary in both languages, speaks unclearly, usually makes sentences consisting from one word, sometimes says short phrases. The girl has good contact with other children. She tries to play with water, does not understand and does not obey when somebody forbids to do it. The girl all the time tries to attract the attention, for example, she shows her wound and wants to be loved. She sleeps satisfactory. She swings her head during the night. She has a good appetite;
- statement of psychologist (31.05.2010.) – makes contact with others carefully. When the girl gets accustomed to somebody she starts playing. The girl responds to verbal directions if she feels interested in it. She is able to repeat after example. Shows an interest about space and toys, however acts cautiously, carefully takes toys, only after a certain moment dares to start playing. The girl tries to draw (lines, rounds), plays simple story games (puts a doll into bed etc.) dimensional thinking does not correspond to the age. She is unable to put together the pyramid, lacks the notion what is “big” and what is “small”;
- the child was born to the 34 years-old-mother in her third pregnancy, in her second delivery, in the caesarian operation, with the weight of 2080g, the height of 46 cm. The mother heavily used alcohol during her pregnancy. Girl has started to sit at the age of 1 year and 3 months, crawl at age of 1 year and 3 months, talk at the age of 1 year and 10 months, the first teeth came out when she was 7 months old, child has received all the prophylactic vaccinations corresponding the age. Her mother is HIV positive, the tests for the girl are negative;
- medical diagnosis – F70.1 (mild mental backwardness, substantial changes of behavior, that needs special attention or treatment), F80.9 (disorder of language and speech development), Z62.2 (treatment in special institution). Delay of phisical development. Duodenopaty. HP (Helicobacter pylori infection) positive;
- further treatment – surveillance of psychiatrist, continue the therapy against HP infection with Amoxicilin 250mg 3 times per day, Metronidazole 125mg 2 times per day, Omeprazole 10mg 2 times per day for 3 days;
- by court judgment the mother has been deprived from custody rights in June 2008, paternity has not been stated. Mother has alcohol dependency problems;
- girl has one older stepbrother, who is father’s care, the decision of Orphan’s court on separation of the children in case of adoption has been made.
- Girl, born on 9th of April, 2007 (repeatedly included in the list of adoptable children):
- she has dark eyes and dark hair, she is very good looking, she has progressed physically and mentally. The girl has become emotionally and physically more active with inconsistent emotional condition, although emotions arte adequate to the situation. The girl is not afraid of strangers and other children in the group. She is playing without deeper insight. The child comprehends and performs short instructions. The concentration skills has progressed. The interest about communication and outside environment is differentiated because of emotional and health condition of the girl. Equilibrium and coordination has improved. Sometimes stereotypical movements are observed. The small muscularity and agility of arms are weak, undeveloped motoric. Girl can not take something using the clasp between thumb and index finger. The girl avoids to touch unknown objects, says unrelated sounds. She walks without assistance however she has difficulties going up the stairs. The girl has a good appetite, she eats from the spoon, drinks from the cup with the assistance of an adult. The girl has sleeping difficulties during the day. She prefers to be on her own;
- girl was born to a 34 years old mother in her 8th pregnancy, in third delivery, with weight of 2100g, height of 46cm, 7/7 points by Apgar's scale. At the age of 3 she weighted – 10,450kg and was 88cm tall;
- medical diagnosis – F72.1 (severe mental backwardness, substantial changes in behavior that needs treatment or constant monitoring). The girl has a speech delay and signs of autism, poliomyelitis, spastic paraparesis in the legs, disembrio genetic stigma: deformation of brainpan at the area of forehead, hemangioma on the body (by the knee joint and left scapula), bronchial asthma, persistent, averagely serious process, remission, OU hyperopic astigmatism, protein-energy under nutrition. Anamnesis: prophylactic anti-syphilis therapy, premature birth (I degree), the invalidity has been determined (until 15.07.2010.);
- further medical treatment – the surveillance of pediatrician, neurologist and oculist, the monitoring of hemangiomas in dynamics, water procedures, massages, physical activities, individual activities with micro speech therapist and psychologist;
- the maternity and the paternity of the girl have not been determined as the mother of the girl entered the maternity section without any identification documents, but actually her personality is known, even the girl is legally registered as a foundling. Mother hasn't showed interest and has never visited them; the location of this woman is unknown, she is vagabonding and abusing alcohol;
- the girl has one brother who has been adopted abroad in 2009.
- Boy, born on 9th of July, 2004:
- he has grey eyes, blond hair. The boy has well developed language, rich imagination. He pronounces the sound correctly but he has poorly developed memory. He gives answers to the questions slowly by thinking before a lot. He likes to do things and to play alone. The boy seldom participates in movement games together with other children. He does not show big interest to toys, construction blocks, cars, Lego and likes to play with them for a long period. The boy draws, colors, uses a lot of black color. The acts very emotionally on reprimand by crying and swinging for long time. The boy has an elevated need for individual attention from the adults. It is impossible to predict the reaction and behavior of the child in certain situations. The boy can endanger his own health and life, for example, he climbs on windowsill and opens the window, stays in front of open window without feeling any fear or other emotions. He throws shoes or other objects everywhere and to everyone, also to other children or adults without controlling himself. He can defecate everywhere, for example, in the bed of other child. The condition where the boy is detached from the reality is often observed. The boy is learning to do personal hygiene. He has a good appetite, he is not choosey. He likes to splash and to wet his clothes while washing. He falls asleep slowly, before that he is swinging, but he sleeps well;
- adopters should take into account that the child still remembers incidents in the family – usage of alcohol, mutual aggressiveness, threats, escape. All these images reflect in the games and language of the boy. The child becomes attached to every adult who shows care and love;
- medical diagnosis – mild shape of psychomotor retardation on the basis of hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, oligophrenia – 1st degree, F92.8 (mixed emotional and behavioral disorder on the basis of organic residual). The boy has mild delay of the psychic development and speech. Physical development is below average;
- further medical treatment – consultations of psychologist, neurologist un psychiatrist;
- by court judgment the parents have been deprived from custody rights in January 2010. the child has been taken out from family because parents were using a lot of alcohol. Meantime the boy was hungry, was sleeping in the shed or cattle-shed and was basically left alone. The boy also has been thrown out through the window. He was physically abused by his father. The boy has received the consultations of psychologist. Mother visited the child 3 times in 2008 and 3 more (1 time in the condition of drunkenness) in 2009. The godfather and aunts visited the boy once but nobody expressed the will to become a his guardian;
- the boy has one adult stepbrother, who drinks alcohol together with parents, he has not expressed the will to become the child’s guardian.
- Boy, born on 21st of November 2002:
- brown eyes, dark hair. Boy is sweet, attentive, curious, adapts well in the collective, friendly, but sometimes he wants to be alone and can be aggressive. The intellectual capacities are weak, but thinking capacities are good, dimensional thinking is well developed, also the sense of colours. Boy likes playing with Lego, puzzles, the fine musculature is well developed. Child studies in the nursery school, in pre-school group for the last year, in 2011 he will start to study at school, but it will be necessary to have consultations of specialists to know if he will need a special program. Boy is regularly consulted by psychiatrist and speech therapist;
- child was born from the 8th pregnancy, in the 3rd delivery, with weight of 2470g, height – 47cm. during the pregnancy mother was not under the doctor’s surveillance. Child has started to sit and the age of 9 moths, to crawl – at the age of 12 months, to walk independently – at the age of 1 year and 2 months, to speak – at the age of 2 years, the first teeth came out when he was 9 months old;
- medical diagnosis – light mental backwardness, essential behaviour troubles what takes treatment and surveillance. The troubles of expressive language development;
- further necessary treatment – surveillance of ORL, control of psychiatrist. Depakine;
- father died in March 2004, by court judgment mother has been deprived from custody rights in March 2005, died in March 2006. Parents were not able to provide the necessary care, living conditions and education for the child;
- child has one major stepsister and one major stepbrother.
- Girl, born on 22nd of May 1999:
- blue eyes, dark hair. Girl is very social, talkative, likes reading, drawing, playing with younger children, she is gifted in singing. During the Christmas 2009 girl participated in the hosting program in USA, she enjoyed it a lot and still contacts with the host family, but it has not expressed the wish to adopt her. Girl wants to be adopted abroad;
- medical diagnosis – practically healthy;
- since June 2006 girl lives in the foster family, foster parents don’t want to adopt her, they considers that the adoption corresponds to child’s best interests;
- by court judgment mother has been deprived from custody rights in November 2009. Parents were not able to provide the necessary care, living conditions and education for the child;
- girl has one major brother and one major sister, who doesn’t agree that the girl could be adopted abroad, but since 2005 she has not showed any interest in her current wellbeing or in her future, she has been also in jail (2005-2009), Orphan’s Court considers that there will be no relationship between both sisters.
- Boy, born on 10th of September 2001:
- blue eyes, dark hair. Boy likes playing on his own, doesn’t want to share with the toys, likes drawing and he draws very beautifully, to play with Lego, puzzles, he can even collate the puzzle of 500 pieces. His behaviour has became unpredictable, he is aggressive, when angry he can punch someone, to throw chairs, etc. there has been situations when he ties his jumper around his neck and tightens it strongly. Boy studies in the special boarding school, his teacher says that his behaviour has became disturbing even for his own, he has difficulties to concentrate longer that 5-10 minutes. During the lessons he can stand up, run around the class, crawl, bit in other students’ legs and laugh about it. Teacher advices to have receive education at home because of these problems. Boy likes writing, he has beautiful handwriting, he can read and retell the read, has speech problems, he can not pronounce the letter “R”, he replaces in with “L”;
- child was born to the 24 years old mother, from the 1st pregnancy, in the 1st delivery, there is no closer information on pregnancy. Child has started to sit and the age of 7 moths, to speak – at the age of 1 year, the first teeth came out when he was 7 months old. His biological father was physically violent to him, at the age of 3 years and 6 months after being physically abused but stopped speaking because of this trauma. He re-started speaking only after the placement in the orphanage (January 2005);
- adopters must take into account that boy has behaviour problems, but it is possible to deal with it by having a strict day regime and strictly defined rules, then it is possible to reach good results. Boy needs individual care and attention, it would good if he could be the only child in the family;
- medical diagnosis – delay of mental and language development, weak stand (he doesn’t want to keep his back straight), wrong occlusion. The disability has been stated;
- further necessary treatment – surveillance psychiatrist, consultation of orthopaedist, dentist. Medical treatment: Depakine, Truxal, Rispolept;
- from July 2007 till May 2010 boy was living in the foster family together with his sister, sister was adopted abroad in January 2010. Foster parents were not able to do their duties because of his health problems, his behaviour has became unpredictable and aggressive, while being angry he has thrown the chair to his foster mother and maltreated other children in the family, it has became dangerous for everyone living in the family. Foster mother has put a lot of effort, energy and love while taking care of him, but boy is absolutely not respecting her, the only person he respects is foster father. Foster mother suffers a lot, but she understands that he is getting worse and this is the only way to protect other members of the family;
- initially boy was adoptable with his sister, on 15th of December 2009 both children started the pre-adoptive care period with foreign adopters. On 22nd of December 2009 the care period for the boy was interrupted, adopters were not able to find contact with him, there were no close relationship forming between adopters and the boy, it was not possible to leave him alone, he was not able to react normally to the unknown situation, he didn’t react at all to the reproaches and interdictions, he did not obey. Adopters understand that child has special needs and that they are not able to deal with it. Boy was happy to return in the foster family, he didn’t mention his sister, there was no close relationship between both children;
- parents have been deprived from custody rights in October 2008. Mother was alcohol abused, parents were not able to provide the necessary care, living conditions, education and food for the child. Father was physically violent, boy has suffered from severe physical and emotional violence. Parents have not showed interest in him, in his wellbeing and in his future. None of the relatives has expressed the wish to take care of the child;
- child has one younger stepbrother, who is in the process of adoption with local adopters, one stepbrother, who has been adopted in 2009 in Latvia and one sister, who has been adopted abroad in 2010. the decision of Orphan’s Court on separation of the children in case of adoption has been made.
- Boy, born on 19th of October 2001:
- blue-greyish eyes, blond hair. Boy likes participating in the activities and to play with other children, he is friendly with children and adults, sometimes stubborn, but open for the talk, he always listens. Boy is physically well developed and strong, he likes sports, he does swimming in the swimming pool. Child studies in the school following the special program, he is not always assiduous, but he can follow on and have good results. Boy needs individual attention and waits for his family; he is very sensitive, he has spent all his life in the orphanage and has went trough the negligence of his biological family, it has cut down his trust to have and live in the family. Boy has periodical hyperkinetic behaviour troubles. His intellectual development doesn’t correspond to his age – his thinking is concrete, his opinions and conclusions are simple and primitive; he understands theoretically how to behave in the different situations, but he is not always able to understand why. Boy can easily accept the unknown person, doesn’t understand the concept of family, his idea about it has been formed from what the other children have said and it is not always corresponding to the real situation;
- child was born to the 30 years old mother from the 2nd pregnancy, in the 2nd delivery, with weight of 3780g, height – 57cm. during the pregnancy mother has received the medical treatment in the psycho-neurological hospital for several times. Child has started to sit and the age of 9 moths, to walk independently – at the age of 1 year and 1 month, the first teeth came out when he was 7 months old. Until the age of 1 year the boy was under the doctor’s surveillance because of the diagnosis “prenatal post hypoxic encephalopathy”;
- medical diagnosis – F70 (light mental backwardness), enuresis nocturna;
- adopters must take into account that during the Christmas 2009 boy has been visited by the woman from Germany, there were good relationship between them. The psychologist was working with child to understand if boy is emotionally attached to her, psychologist found out that boy would like to live in the Germany as well as in any other country outside of Latvia, he thinks that there is a better life abroad. Boy accents for several times that all he wants is to live in the family;
- by court judgment mother has been deprived from custody rights in August 2009, paternity has not been stated, mother abandoned him just after the delivery. The sister of the mother visited child in the orphanage, but there were no close relationship between them. None of the relatives has showed interest in him, in his wellbeing and in his future;
- child has one major brother, they don’t keep in touch.
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