[little jeremiah]

I agree.

And Russia banned Americans from adopting children/babies because of homos getting their hands on them, with the result we would expect.

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

I thought Russia stopped the adoption process because of some kind of diplomatic thing in retaliation for sanctioning some of their guys.

We adopted our youngest in Russia in 1997. That was 15 years before adoptions were ended, so granted, I was out of the loop. Grueling process, took two years. No child was in an orphanage for a happy reason, and there is a stigma attached to children in orphanages, or there was then. We were asked in court if we minded that our daughter didn't come from a "good family". We were kind of taken aback and our answer was that it wasn't the fault of the child if she didn't come from a respectable family.