welcome back to all the parts of a discussing international adoption of a elisabet bartha lab buchalter director of the child advocacy program at harvard law school ms bartha lab before the break. the investigation that was done by a reuters news agency a couple of months ago into this whole real homing phenomenon and. i think. when you look at this issue the issue of international adoption and countries who recently moved to ban or restrict american adoption those issues are very very much politicized but. in the u.s. media those cases of abuse or neglect that they hands of american families are usually treated as as isolated cases but that's reuters investigation. seems to point to the fact that the problem is far more systematic than previously thought well you used the word systematic actually the number of really honed internationally adopted children was infinitesimal compared to the number of international adoptions in the last couple of decades an aide to senator landrieu who introduced the bill i just talked about that's been introduced in our congress can't calculated that num