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God bless you. Lots of times Russian adoption wasn’t to actually people who could and wanted to be parents to a child in need. The russians stopped it because of the abuse and trafficking in kids it brought about and not just here.

That may be - it was frightfully expensive at the time for us as a married couple. We had to go through some kind of FBI check - not the whole thing, but I remember some paperwork involving them, fingerprinting, etc. We had a homestudy and references from friends, etc., they even interviewed our other two children to make sure they were in agreement.

I know that at the time we understood that once the children reached the age of 16, they were no longer allowed to live in the orphanages and were dismissed with $10.00. Not a lot of choices at 16 with $10 in your pocket in Mother Russia.

Many didn't survive through their mid twenties.

I have an acquaintance, Alex Krutov, who survived his mother throwing him in a dumpster when he was three days old, and the whole orphanage life, and started a jobs/life skills training for graduates of the orphanages. He wrote a book entitled, "Infinitely More". It's on Amazon.