[flying Elvis]

Pravda must be in the pay of the Russian brides websites. I don't know whether it's urban legends or not, but I've heard some horror stories about those blushing Russian brides.

[goldstategop]

There's something about marrying a girl who wants a ticket to a better life. Or should we be cynical that love comes down to one's bottom line?? ;-)

[Twinkie]

A woman doctor who is also a friend had a husband who actually got on the net for hours every night until he
found himself a Russian "bride", deserted his wife &
children, took the doctor for everything he could wring
out of her and now lives with the Russian woman. I agree,
WHAT FOR?? The doctor is very attractive, makes great
money, but when a man gets addicted to looking at
retouched photos of "exotic" women on the prowl, he takes
what he can get out of the little wife and cuts and runs.
Or so it appears.

[July 4th]

I don't think this article necessarily means mail-order brides, just Russian women in general. I went to school with a few who were already here - they didn't have to find their ticket to the US. But their cultural affinities were pretty close to what this article talks about. They were all hard-working, didn't spend every night out partying or at the bars, they dressed well, and were exceedingly polite. Definitely not in it just for some guy's cash.

[Centurion2000]

. I don't know whether it's urban legends or not, but I've heard some horror stories about those blushing Russian brides.

After 5 years

Divorce rate for American man to american woman marriages : 50+%

Divorce rate for American man to Russian Women : 20%

I'll take those odds in a heartbeat.

[free2freep]

I've heard some horror stories about those blushing Russian brides.

Anything substantiated or documented?

[SevenDaysInMay]

I have met several PhDs and other professionals who have wonderfully eye magnet Russkia wives. Averaging ~15 y. younger, each wife is either an M.D. or PhD, blonde or lava aurburn, at least 5'7", athletic, cultured, affectionate

AND FRUGAL.

These guys are veterans of American divroce court. They met the ladies through work and travel, and dazzle the girlkis with honor and sober good ol' American courting - even after the wedding.

I had a crush on on young married economist from Moscow who was so polished that she could pass herself off as a farm girl from Ohio, fluent in French and Spanish as well. She was a competent mother and devoted wife.

I have dated far too many incompetent mothers and undevoted ex-wives who caved in or got lazy foregoing earning an education with which they could be independent if needed, without being bitter toward their man or purported less than a man, aka <$5,000 takehome/month.

Education enriches one's lives; there are millions of well educated, eligible Euro-women of child bearing age throughout the former CCCP/Eastern Block who have an edge when it comes to "old fashioned" family home life. Many even don't hate America, like those ClintonDNC-Politburo comfort women on our East and Left Coast do. The corruption of the soccer mom generation had driven and is still driving men who want one wife who wants her husband for better or worse - and the daughters of CCCP have lived through the worst.

IMHO, I can speak for some unmarried and temporarily married men.

We want a woman who understands that we want a woman who shall remain all woman all the time for their husbands and mother to their children for the rest of their lives.

What 21st Century American man would not want a dirty blonde 5'10" pediatrician with a civil engineering PhD, Black belts, full-figured figure skater, KGB arms and demolition training, with a sexy New Europe accent in her fluent 19th Century Oxford class English lilt who eagerly prepares for ~4 children and is happy signing a pre-nup while taking out a $1,000,000 life ins. policy on her life? Returning to the simple life requires a woman who can do more than blow out the candle.

[fortunecookie]

Some of them are clearly scams, with 'rich' American men lining up to pay for what are essentially mob owned hookers. Often one of these 'ladies' has dozens of suitors paying to meet her, they never do, and they generally are led to believe they are her one and only. Others are desperate to meet and marry a nice guy and escape the poverty and post communism era. I don't know how one knows for sure, but I'm guessing there must be red flags.