Reports of the recent case of a 7-year-old...

"It is a monstrous deed on the part of his adoptive parents, to take the kid and virtually throw him on an airplane in the opposite direction... It is not only immoral, but also against the law," Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told ABC News.

But there was one very significant detail that Medvedev failed to mention.

The kid, who before he left for a new life in the U.S. went by the perfectly good Russian name of Artyom, was renamed Justin by his new family in Tennessee.

As anyone who has been to school in an English-language speaking country will tell you, the vast majority of Justins are wusses who are inevitably the first to get stomped on when the bell goes for home time.

“On a rating of one to 10, with 10 the highest, I would say the name Justin is an eight on the wuss scale,” David Burghardt, a U.S. expat in Moscow told RIA.

Culture shock can be a tough thing for even well-adjusted adults to deal with, let alone a pre-teen child

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