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Originally Posted by deepimpact2
I just truly wonder if it really is a matter of them not WANTING to adopt those children. From what I have learned, many of these countries are so interested in getting lots of American money into their system, that they won't ALLOW people in these countries to adopt. Instead they set up adoptions with American families.
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I heard a recent report on NPR about this issue. There is a big issue in Russia that people will not take in other people's children. They won't even do it for members of their own family. The 300 children adopted last year were due to a huge campaign to encourage adoption within the country since they are concerned that their population is aging, and they are sending a large proportion of their young to America as unwanted orphans. There has been a lot of backlash against American adoptions over the past few years with Russia calling for the US to guarantee that the US will uphold their adoption laws which the US has refused to do.