A Russian Orphan Fights to Stop Ban on Adoptions

By ⋅ December 26, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment
Alex D'Jamoos at Mount Kilimanjaro. (Photo: Eric Michael Johnson)

Alex D'Jamoos at Mount Kilimanjaro. (Photo: Eric Michael Johnson)

More than 60,000 Russian children have been adopted in the United States in the past 20 years.

Alexander D’Jamoos is one of them.

He spent the first 15 years of his life in a Russian orphanage for children with disabilities.

Then he was adopted by an American family and moved from Russia to Texas.

D’Jamoos has written a letter to President Putin asking him not to sign the law banning Americans from adopting Russian children.

Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Alexander D’Jamoos.


Discussion

6 comments for “A Russian Orphan Fights to Stop Ban on Adoptions”

  • fshaynes

    Inspiring, both from what Alexander has achieved, and by his adoptive family. Thank you.

  • http://www.facebook.com/kathleen.ayres Kathleen Ayres

    Alexander is amazing and so full of compassion and life. He speaks English so well, and he is doing the right thing with regard to this ban. I only pray that Putin has enough heart to decline this proposal to ban adoptions by Parliament and do something right for these orphan youth. Thank you for this story and thank you to Alexander’s adoptive family. 

  • gilmored

    Alexander is not only inspiring, but incredibly generous. He could be forgiven for focusing only on himself and enjoying – at last - the well-deserved successes of his life, but the fact that he thinks so much about others points to a remarkable life ahead. The US is very lucky to have him.  

  • http://www.facebook.com/DJRRYAN1 Dave Ryan

    The US is very fortunate to have someone like Alexander. As Alexander said in the interview … the people of Russia will not understand how preventing orphans in Russia from hopes of a better life hurts the US. Our collective future is better with more people like Alexander.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1116452815 Kristen Jafek Gough

    I found Alexander’s comments inspiring. When he talked about crawling his way to the top of Kilimanjaro to raise awareness about adoptions of disabled children from Russia, you could hear the passion in his voice. I agree wholehearted with Dave Ryan

  • nicr737

    An international orphans trading business is preventing orphans in Russia from hopes of a better life in their own country. Orphanages staff are preventing russians to take orphans to families, hoping to sell them to agencies from US or EU.