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Sorry to bore you, but try typing "Chinese women" and "Chinese babies" into Google too. See what I mean? You could define countries as failed states where so many women are trying to get out and where so many babies are sold abroad. (You don't think you can just turn up and take them off for free do you? Have a look at the adoption Web sites. Some of those babies are being adopted by pedophiles. But I digress.)

Dear Lord in Heaven.

Do you know if they are talking about Russian babies as well?

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HORRIBLE...evil is beyond understanding at times.

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Both Russia and China require that prospective adoptive parents submit dossiers including exhaustive home studies (performed by social workers licensed by the state of residence of the adopter), Potential adoptive parents also must submit to criminal background checks (FBI and state and local, including a review of their driving records). Russia also requires that prospective adoptive parents (American) be evaluated by a psychologist.

China severely restricts single parent adoptions. All adopters from China must sign a statement affirming that they are NOT homosexual.

Americans who are divorced must provide a study for the Russian judge as to why they do not have custody of their natural children, if they do not.

So certainly a crafty pedophile could (and at least one notorious one has) "gamed" his/her way through the system but it would not be a cakewalk. However, providing foster care in America, adopting from social welfare in America, or simply signing up for child sex tours abroad... is so much easier. That is where I would look for the pedophiles.

I think the author of this study really hasn't got a clue about American "pedophiles" adopting from Russia and China and just threw that comment out there. However, within Russia and throughout eastern Europe there are many (many)children in orphanages who are used for personal perversion by the orphanage staffs and others. Some (many) Americans have managed to adopt and save some of them.