the kids adopted by Americans must by Russian law have been offered unsuccessfully to Russian families for over a year
they (Russians) list their little faces in the regional newspapers, like ads for pets
in one Russian winter when supplies slowed down to the Far East the kids in my son’s “baby house” were kept alive by sugar water and shared food brought in by desperately poor orphanage workers. That is why he weighed 25 pounds when we adopted him at age 5.
any child over age 5 with a handicap (physical or mental) is consigned to what they call “imbecile asylums”. I remember being so moved by a medical missionary group in Irkustk desparately trying to find a home for a 4 year old girl who was born missing 3 limbs, of normal intelligence, who was condemned to be sent to a mental institution
By age 10 or 11 many of the orphanage kids able to run away do so, and end up selling themselves on the streets, dying early from drugs and diseases like AIDS. I have seen them.
This is Russia’s great shame. A 3/4 milion population of permanent underclass unwanted children warehoused in a variety of institutions. How long do you think it will take pootie to dedicate the funding to set up a foster system capable of replacing these grim human warehouses?
Almost ditto. My youngest daughter weighed 18 pounds at age 3.5 yrs. She wore a size 18 months. From Rostov On Don in 1997.