"I'm wondering, if their children are taught to report their parents then they must be aware about the consequences of doing so, and know that they'll be taken away from the mother and given to strangers... Aren't they afraid of this? Or do they all have the attachment disorder?"
As I see it, Russians since 1991 are trying to undo the ravages of seventy years of communism. They have re-embraced Christianity and churches appear across the countryside like mushrooms after a rain. The great cathedrals destroyed by the Bolsheviks and the non-Russian Stalin have all been rebuilt. Church weddings and baptisms are the norm (I have not been to Russia; closest I got was Central Asia where they still spoke Russian).
And there is still that anomie, a sense of not being connected to a greater purpose; alcoholism & abortions still afflict millions with shorter life spans.
The large military parades in Red Square seem to be back; did I see both Russian and Soviet flags in the ranks? It gives people something to identify with and the Lenin mausoleum is till occupied.
I wish Russians well and I wish America and Russia could be friends but the drive for spheres of influence are still there.