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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Fetal Alcohol Effect are enormous problems in Russia. You can't always detect them at birth. We know a local doctor who adopted a baby that one of his patients had and the child was later diagnosed with FAE. In the meantime, he was kicked out of the school where my husband taught and came close to it in a school where I taught. He was a bizarre, disturbed child but it didn't show up until he was about 5. Anyway, Russians are well aware that many of their babies are born with this and who would blame them for being scared to adopt? Not to mention that so many Russian are desperately poor...
Our social worker is black. He said he doesn't have any black families who want to adopt and he wishes he did. I know there are some out there because there were at least 3 black couples in our IMPACT group but they were from out of town so I have no idea how their search has gone.
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