Seriously. I do not care, either and I'll adopt a child someday. This is just Russia reaching down its own pants to try to convince itself it isn't insignifigant anymore.

Minnesota, you said the exact same thing I was going to say. Don't know how you feel about the whole "marriage should be between a man and a woman so they can "procreate" thing but it galls me every time I hear it because of the number of children already "procreated" and no longer in the care of by their birth parents.

Parents who adopt are the only hope these children have of getting a family. Lay off the kids, Putin!!

What about our own children folks? "America first" has many meanings and putting our own children is right at the top of the list don't you think? "Adopt our own" I did and damned glad of it!

This is a ridiculous and extremely childish move by the Russian government. They are using these children as pawns to score political points and the only ones they are really hurting are their own children. Russian orphanages are pretty abysmal places and to deny these kids the chance to grow up in a happy, loving home because of some political hurt feelings is patently absurd. Putin should be ashamed of himself for supporting such a childish move.

"Russian President Vladimir Putin signaled on Thursday that he would sign a controversial bill banning Americans from adopting Russian children, a defiant move against the United States that has angered some who argue that it victimizes children to make a political point."

Some of these feudal mentality maniacs don't do anything useful for anybody except themselves and their people!

He can sign the law; let us all make copies of it; and use it for toilet papers.

Russia is the single biggest source of adopted children in the United States...

Parents who are considering adoption...get over yourselves and adopt children that were born in the USA!

Good. There is no reason we should not be adopting within our own country. If we need to tweak the adoption laws, then put pressure on our elected officials. I have no idea why this is not being driven home by the pro-life groups as well as the pro-choice groups. Be patriotic and adopt an American if you are looking to adopt.

scales67, "get over yourselves"? Really? How about YOU get over yourself and not judge parents who are taking measures to give a child, ANY child, the chance to have a better life and loving family.

The American adoption process is so costly and lengthy that people opt to adopt abroad. You'll need a minimum of 100k to get a kid here.

I think the problem is that the U.S. is not guaranteeing that the Russian children will be properly looked after and there is no justice for those children who have been neglected and/or abused by their adoptive parents.

For those looking down their noses with the, "what about all the US kids" comments: I'm guessing none of you have actually adopted a child; probably have never even explored it as an option. W/ US adoptions, the bio parents can swoop in, ask for custody, and they will likely get it, or, at best, force the prospective adoptive parents into a long and expensive court battle. Our foster kids, at the very least, have foster parents. It's not ideal, but when compared with the Russian orponage system, it's heaven. Unless you've adopted a child or been to Russia, please do a little research and get informed before you go around message boards whining about the "US kids".

Domestic adoptions are more challenging than foreign adoptions, both with adoption process (including the rights of the biological parents) and the process of assimilating them into one's family. All of the 125,000 children in the U.S. foster care system available for adoption need forever families. They need to be saved too, but in a different way than the estimated 40 million orphans internationally. First, there's just more of them. And for many, adoption could be the difference between life or death, freedom or slavery. Regarding Domestic adoptions, it's a lot harder to get them to go through. The US system is designed to keep kids with their biological parents if at all possible. Failing that they prefer to place them with a relative. The kid has to come from a VERY messed up family before they allow an unrelated foster parent to adopt. I have a friend who is a foster parent and I see what she goes through. She adopted a 16 year old girl to give her some stability. She's trying now to adopt a little boy that she's had since he was born. He's a fetal alcohol baby, weighed 2 pounds at birth, has numerous health problems, the birth parents are HORRIBLE, and 2 years after filing the papers for adoption it STILL has not gone through. My friend is the only mother this boy has ever known for his entire life. If the state doesn't approve the adoption, he could be ripped from this home and there is nothing that his foster parents can do to stop it. They are risking such severe heartbreak to adopt this child - a child that they have raised for 3 years may not be legally theirs for another year, or 2 or 3 or 4.... and anything could happen in the meantime.... SO that is why some people opt for international adoption.

It's not like shopping for a new washing machine that's "Made in America"

Adoption is adding a child to your family. Some people want to have that done as quickly as possible, with as few complications as necessary, with children as young as possible who do not already have bad memories of their birth families abusing them and going to foster homes, given back to their birth families, and back to foster homes again and again before the state finally deems their parents to be unfit and allows for them to be adopted.

I have a feeling that those judging a families decision to adopt internationally have not actually gone through the adoption process here in the United States.

Oh great. Now all we can get are Chinese kids.

allie,

The largest part of the 100,000 children are there because the kids are older, the parents were involved in the drug trade (lose custody of kids for this), or have mental or developmental issues. Often some of them get adopted without an agency disclosing the issues. Some still get adopted, it is just a lot harder to get them adopted.

And just so a few people become more informed out there, drug abuse is increasing the number of kids with developmental issues.

It takes real special people to adopt these kids, especially if the issues are known.

Keep the used car salesmen too.

Idiots: They are not punishing the U.S. government, or even any major sector of the U.S. population. They are punishing their own children, and that is just plain stupid.

Adopting a child domestically is not as easy as it sounds. Potential parents are waiting, sometimes for years. Background checks have to be done on adoptive parents, recommendation letters from employers, relatives, people who know the parent and are willing to vouch for their character, and even after all of that many times the parents are not approved. Added to that, almost all adoptions in the US now are 'open', meaning that the biological parent can show up years later and still have a right to see their child.

I'm an international adoptee myself, though I didn't find that out until I was an adult, and looking through my file with USCIS gave me some insight into what my parents went through to adopt me.

According to my immigration file, my parents tried to adopt domestically for years. Dad was a Vietnam and Korean war veteran, Mom was a war bride he brought home from the Korean war, he worked for a private contractor who sold missile guidance systems to the government and Mom was a stay-at-home housewife. They were denied the opportunity to adopt domestically, and although the paperwork never said why, I suspect it may have had something to do with not having any extended family support system (money was certainly not the issue) and had plenty of character recommendations from coworkers and friends--but no extended family because his Dad didn't like the fact that he married a Korean when he'd been over there fighting a war against them, so Dad got disowned and as a result we never had extended family.

I was what the UN terms 'stateless'--an abandoned infant left on the doorstep of an international orphanage with no birth certificate/documentation. Because the country in which that orphanage was is not one that had signed the UN Resolution on the Reduction of Statelessness back in the 60's, I wasn't granted citizenship in that country--I legally had no home country, no name, no birth parents, and therefore no rights anywhere because I officially didn't exist. Added to that, I was female in a country which deems girls as 'worthless'. Stateless infants, particularly girls, usually wind up in slave-labor type situations or bought and sold as child sex slaves.

Dad and Mom picked me out of the orphanage. Because I was a 'worthless female' the red tape was surprisingly easy to get through--they paid the orphanage to pick a name and an arbitrary birthdate for me and then paid the government of that country money to issue me a passport, then applied with INS for permission to bring me into the country to adopt. There was virtually no chance that a birth parent would be able to track me down and pop into Dad and Mom's life. Dad and Mom could start life over with a clean slate, no ties to the past, just a future ahead. I think that was probably one of things that factored into their decision to adopt internationally.

The issue here is multifold--part of it is anger at US couples who adopt Russian children who subsequently die--like the one Max mentioned where the adoptive parent left their Russian adoptee in a hot car for hours and the child died.

And then there was a case where a US couple adopted a 7 year old special-needs boy, got him home, discovered they simply couldn't handle him, and without informing local Social Services or the American side of the adoption agency, they put him by himself on a plane back to Russia with a note saying they didn't want him anymore. There was outrage in Russia at this--with our highly-touted Transportation Security Agency checking people at airports, how did they miss this 7-year-old mentally-disabled child getting on a plane alone? And how did passengers and flight crew on the plane miss noticing this child was not traveling with an adult?

But some of that anger is also a feeling that the pot is calling the kettle black. With international organizations like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International castigating the US over our human rights violations--most notably Guantanamo Bay and unreported deaths in deportation camps, although there are other issues--their viewpoint is that we really don't have much of a right to be calling other countries out on their human rights violations. You know the old saying, "People who live in glass houses should not throw bricks..."

Irregardless of the political issues, however, I do feel Russia is using this adoption issue as a political bargaining chip, and it is wrong. The decision to adopt is a very personal one, because you're making a huge financial, emotional, mental, and physical commitment to raising this child you don't know. The only one who can make that decision is you and whoever will be helping you raise that child, and the choice of child should be up to you to decide--not to a government entity who will never meet you, the child you're trying to adopt, and knows nothing about your reasons for wanting this one specific child out of every other child in the world.

There many thousands of children in the U.S. looking for a foster home. It doesn't cost money to do that, in fact you can receive government for doing so. Let's cut to the chase and say what the real deal is. It's people fighting for newborn children, and not wanting any kid who is over two years old.

Wow, DB Akron, way to perpetuate the stereotype of American children in the foster care system! I adopted my daughter as a single parent in 1991. She had just turned two years old. While it's true that many children in the US foster care system are drug exposed, as my daughter was, those are issues that can be overcome. Despite a learning disability, my daughter has flourished. She is now a junior at a state university near our home. Last quarter, despite a very heavy class load and working part-time, she received a 3.60 GPA and made the Honor's List.

It's also a stereotype that adopting domestically is very expensive. That certainly wasn't the case with the adoption of my daughter. Plus, I received a monthly adoption stipend from the state until she was 18, which really helped with daycare costs because I worked full-time.

We all scream about the high crime in the US. While those of you who choose international adoption do so, you might also want to consider how our children in the US feel after they've languished in foster and group homes all of their young lives, only to be given a small stipend and a list of the nearest homeless shelters when they reach their 18th or 21st birthdays. Without some intervention, these children are not likely to become the pillars of society.

The year I adopted my daughter, there were 1,000 children available for adoption - in one county alone. Of those 1,000 children, 63 were adopted. And, the numbers continue to rise every year. Our children in America need us and we are failing them.

The American adoption process is so costly and lengthy that people opt to adopt abroad. You'll need a minimum of 100k to get a kid here.

It costs a freaking fortune to adopt a child from ANYWHERE! You name it, China, Russia, the U.S - you're going to shell out tens of thousands of dollars.

And most Asian countries are NOW SEVERELY restricting the number of baby girls for adoption, especially China, because the MALE to FEMALE sex ratio over there are now so skewed!

My brother and his wife looked into adoption after trying for four years to have a child. You know what? They found it was a lot CHEAPER to try IVF! They attempted twice, and succeeded on their second try, and STILL, even two attempts found it was cheaper than adoption. The success rates for IVF are now high if you find a reputable team of doctors. They have a beautiful three year old girl now! She's a great cousin to my own eight year old son (who my wife and I conceived naturally).

To those who are coming down on not adopting at home. I agree with you, but consider.

The process for adopting a US child is so difficult, it is driving parents to adopt overseas. Good intentions of making sure adopted kids have caring parents has turned into making it unbelievably difficult for good parents to adopt kids. I've seen a friend try to adopt a kid and it took 3 years. Meanwhile some less patient parent is looking for a kid from another country.

Don't be ridiculous enough to blame them either. We have a system and it needs to work. Part of the reason it is so hard to adopt a US kid is thanks to us. Want more US kids adopted? Stop taking it out on parents who WANT to adopt US kids!

Those of you who say adopt US, probably never even tried! It is very hard, there are no children available, and the ones that are available are completely damaged and older than 9 years of age. If you are lucky to get wind of an infant, then good luck getting the birth parents to sign off. There are so many scams in the the US where the birthmother tries to just get desperate couples, who only want a baby to fund there pregnancy, then they keep the child once it is born. The cost too in the US is about $60,000 if you qualify. It is also a wait of about 4 years plus.

The laws in each state vary as well, so, for example, in FL, there is no limit on expenses you pay for the birth mother, and she can change her mind at any time, you can be out over $10k and no baby, another state you can have child legal in your home and the birth mother can change her mind up to a month and you have to give that baby back...talk about pulling newborn out of your arms!

Also, when you live in one state and find a child or baby in another state, the costs go up in regards to compliance with homestudy, state laws and other expenses.

The US also, has so many abortions there is not a good chance to get an infant in less than 2-4 years, there are just none out there. Like I said, the ones in state custody are taken away, and the birth parents for some reason fight for those kids they don't really want or take care of. It is crazy.

So you people that say adopt US, go try it before you make statement that makes it sound so easy. This country's laws and costs drive people to go to foreign countries to adopt.

I wonder what President Obama is thinking since he has "more flexibility" since winning the November election?

Looks like a game of gotcha to me.

All adoptions tend to be expensive, and yes, IVF may very well be cheaper than adoption. The VOLUNTARY adoption of my grandsons cost me well over $6,000. There was no agency helping, no stipends or free medical care. One GAL received a $1500 fee for doing absolutley NOTHING in the case. The judge gets to tell you what fee you must pay. $6000 is cheap compared to most adoptions, but why should we have to pay much of anything to rescue a child?

It doesn't matter if you adopt from US foster care or internationally, even as babies most of these kids have been neglected and traumatized. The lack of a strong attachment as an infant (plus any drug exposure) may mean you end up with a child that's quite difficult to raise. Sometimes they NEVER come to trust adults and love their adoptive family. Some will be abused as are kids living with their bios. It happens. No one can guarantee adopted kids will never be abused.

Putin is an egomaniac and this will harm many of their orphans. It will come back to haunt him.

While I understand why people choose international adoptions, I urge people to adopt in the US if possible. Some states try to make sure kids get adopted, some make it darn near impossible. But as long as the US makes it so difficult for some people to adopt here, please rescue a child SOMEwhere else if you can. They are ALL God's children.

Where are we gonna get our fetal alcohol syndrome babies from now?

Is this really news worthy????

I propose a law banning Putin!

I'm sure the Russian children will happy that they won't be coming to the United States after all (NOT!).

Why are Americans even adopting from Russia when there are so many American children waiting for loving parents? I don't quite understand. Someone suggested they want that pure aryan race for a child. Blue eyes, light hair and all. That would make them the very same types as Putin wouldn't it? And who is pure anything anymore anyways. Didn't the people mapping DNA show us that no one is pure anything anymore? God has always preferred a colorful variety.

AnaBanana:

Like so many people have stated earlier in this comment thread, it is just rediculous to adopt in the US. Case in point, my adopted female cousin was already a product of the system by the time that she was taken in by my aunt's family. No matter what my aunt did, the poor girl was just too emotionally damaged and ended up just like her druggie biological mother (who was such an unfit parent that CPS had to take my cousin away from her).

Fast forward into adulthood and my cousin has already popped out her 1st child, which was taken away from her by CPS for a number of reasons. Then my cousin randomly hooks up with some loser who she's never met before (or seen since) at a party and gets pregnant again. Finally showing some self-awareness, she decides that it would be best to give her 2nd child up to a loving family since she is an obviously unfit parent. Through the help of my aunt, she gets put into touch with a wonderful married couple who the US adoption system refused because they were "too old". Regardless of the husband being a successful lawyer and the wife being a housewife, the system rejected them for being middle aged. It was only by working outside the system that they even had a chance of adoption in the US. (They had even tried adopting outside of the US, but got extorted for over $100,000 between various countries and still never were able to adopted anyone.)

My cousin gives birth to her 2nd child, but then flees the hospital with the child since she wanted the governmental income for supporting a child. After a couple of years, she finally has another moment of self awareness and contacts the middle aged couple about adopting her child. To her shock, the couple was even willing to let her remain in her child's life as a distant aunt figure. Yet when it came time for the legality of it all, the US court system tried to make it all implode. It took 3 years worth of constant court dates and waiting periods before the adoption finished going through. The judges constantly tried to talk my worthless druggie cousin into keeping the child, even though it clearly wasn't in the child's best interests. Then they forced her to have the biological father tracked down by a private investigator since he also had to sign away his parental rights. During the whole process, it was clear to everyone involved that this was a contest of wills between my extended "family" and the Ohio adoption courts.

In the end, the nearly impossible was achieved and the child was officially adopted. However this entire process took a rediculous amount of time and money. What kind of sane adoption system is this? Is it really a surprise that people would look outside of the US for adoption since they don't want to have to deal with this kind of insanity?

Good for you Mr. Putin keep your fetal alcohol syndrome, druggie momas babies, that have been turned into psycotic bundles by neglect in and out of your orphanages.

Boo hoo hoo to all these poor American women that can't have children of their own. So what. Maybe it's God's will? Who cares? suck it up and either adopt a deserving American child or just deal with it. No one ever said that everybody is entitled to become a mother.

For those wondering why American parents (or even single people) who want to adopt just don't seek out one of the hundreds-of-thousands of children here waiting for a home, one of the reasons is because laws make it so difficult and expensive to adopt. Such high standards are placed on prospective parents, with the slightest "failing" serving as a reason to say no from authorities (deemed, as "necessary," of course, by the authorities to "ensure" that children are placed in a "suitable" home), that it can take years and oodles of cash and even after that many are still told "no." I have friends who went through that bureaucratic nightmare. For years (and both had good jobs, and the mom was willing to take off from work, with a wonderful home, and they are great people), they went through all the hoops, thinking they had everything covered until the authorities found another reason to tell them no. When they got that one "fixed" (and there was nothing to fix), they'd find another one. The last straw was when they were told they could not adopt because the adult sibling of the wife, who lived at the far end of the country, smoked. Yup, that's right. Because she had an adult brother who lived 2,000 miles away but smoked, she and her husband were determined to be "unsuitable" - again. Finally, after years of this, they had had it. They went the international route. Within three months they had a daughter from South Korea. No, they weren't just looking for a perfectly healthy, white infant. That were willing to adopt a child of any age, even with disabilities. But in America, they were constantly told "no," that they weren't "suitable" enough.

In this country, any crack wh*re or druggie lech can conceive children and even get to keep them, raising them in the most horrendous of environments because it's a "constitutional right." It takes only the most extreme situation to have CPS remove children and quite often by then it's too late. The law recognizes "birth" parents as having predominant "rights," including the right to have and raise children in the most deplorable conditions. But when a childless couple tries to adopt, so many hurdles are put in their way ("for the sake of the children," the authorities say) that so few children are placed in healthy, vibrant homes. So, it's off to another country, like my friends did, and after that they adopted two more, one from Zimbabwe and the other from Romania. They are a wonderful family; the oldest is heading off to college on a scholarship. Meanwhile, across town, in the trailer park, Cracked-Up Cathy is "living" with her three children, all filthy and doing poorly in school (no surprise there) as Mommy is planning to hit the bars with her latest live-in boyfriend, Methed-Up Marvin, while leaving the kids home alone, reminding the oldest (who's maybe 11) to make sure she gets up in the morning and get his/her siblings somehow ready for and off to school because Mommy will be "too tired" to get up. And that's legal.

None of you have the right to tell parents they can only adopt American babies and not foreign ones.

None of you.

Keep your politics, your personal beliefs, and your religion out of my home.

@Chris from Yucaipa

You are so right. These very bigoted people think they can tell others where and who they can adopt. Seems like they want everyone to forget the Russian toddler chained and in its feces...All to adopt an american "child" typically 15 to 21 years old. Why don't they adopt a teenager, or these adults?

For all of you who say it is too hard to adopt in the US or too expensive should not be adopting in the first place. Our country has standards for these "parents" and the review process takes time since there are alot of folks who want these ABANDONED children. Adoptive parents have to show they can AFFORD that child, can provide a stable social environment, can provide a moral i.e. law abidding environment, etc...

Foster parents dont have to go through as many qualifiers as adoptive parents must go through. If those parents really want children but cannot afford the adoptive route then they should be foster parents.

BTW Jennifer: Not ALL children in the US have foster parents at least. The older children live in group homes and orphanages since no one in the US feels those children are worthy. See ALOT of those Adoptive parents who get these kids from overseas are very SELFISH people because they only want the little kids and all of the children say over the age of 6 or 7 have a hell of time being adopted because they are considered "damaged" and they actually have opinions and have memories of not such happy times.

IMO these folks who adopt overseas because the red tape is too much over here are no different then the illegals who also choose not to deal with the red tape either!!!!

All these 'adopt American first' people need to research things a little bit. Good luck adopting an American child (white, black or otherwise). They $ it costs, hoops you jump through - and then in the end the mom can always take the child back from you a year later. Only a nut would try and adopt an American child!

I adopted two American boys (ages 10 and a half and 11 when I adopted them) as a single father and had very little trouble adopting them. I think the problem comes when we want to adopt babies because they are not 'scarred' by their experiences... My two boys both came from pretty disastrous backgrounds, so that is probably why I had not problems adopting them. Also, I adopted them through social services, which cost me almost no money, though the process was a little lengthy They both made progress when I adopted them, though the older one now is really struggling.

That said, I think that people can adopt in the United States, it just takes a little more 'courage' to adopt kids you know will not be the perfect vessels for what we want them to be...

Re: Russian children vs. American children. I have friends who adopted Russian children... Since many come from backgrounds very similar to those in our foster care system (especially the fetal alcohol syndrome issue, since alcohol is one of the biggest problems in Russia), do not expect the kids to be much better than those you would adopt in the US. My friends had to do with all sorts of development issues when their 2 year old grew up to be school age, and they didn't even know he had these problems. They paid a lot more money than I did to adopt him and they had the same problems in the end.

I am not sure what I would recommend, but I agree that using these kids as pawns for international politics is very narrowminded...

Good for Putin. Let them keep their little communists in their own country. They made these children, let them take care of them. The problem with thee Russian kids is that there is something wrong with them and Russia doesn't want them because they are of no use to them, so they let USA adopt them and them the taxpayers have to take of their problems. These kids all have issues, mental retardation, mental illness, etc... There are many kids here in the US that need homes, be it adoption are foster homes. The problem here is that the adoption laws need to change. First, the cost should not be what it is, because these parents are taking someone else's child and will take on the financial responsibility for that child for 18 years. The one giving up the child should pay for it and the cost should be very little or yet the if the gov't wants to spend money on something worthwhile then it should help with the cost to see to it that these children are placed in loving homes. Another huge problem is that when these children are adopted, the biological parents come back a few years later claiming they want their child back, which is wrong, and it costs lots of money to fight it in court with the adoptive parents losing most of the time. It used to be in this country that once a child was adopted it was a done deal, but not anymore, so parents are afraid to adopt here because of the fact they could lose the child a few years down the road, so by adopting a child from another country even though it is handicapped, is a better option and gives them peace knowing someone can't come and take it from them. Change the laws in this country and people would gladly adopt the children here. People can also go through churches to adopt which is a lot less costly. So, people wanting to give up their child should bring it to a church instead of an adoption agency and get good adoptive parents there too. Russia needs to keep their children in their country and take care of their own, don't make babies and then expect Americans to take care of them because something is wrong with them. It is kind of pathetic that a country gets rid of their children because they don't want to take of their handicap and the taxpayers here should not have to pay to take care of handicap children from another country when we have so many of our own children here who need taking care of.

As long as they don't ban russian brides..Those girls are hot.

Chris from Yucaipa,

I dont think I have agreed with you on any issues but I think hell just froze over because I agree with you 100%. Seeing all these people on their soap boxes this morning is driving me nuts. Not sure why everyone these days thinks they should be able to tell everyone how they are supposed to live their lives. Wish people would start minding their own business.

I'm reading some of these comments and I am laughing. So many people want women to not have abortions, but then claim "it's too hard" or "too expensive" to adopt American kids. So you don't get an infant? Who cares? What happened to raising children to become adults regardless of age? A poster above me said ,"Those of you who say adopt US, probably never even tried! It is very hard, there are no children available, and the ones that are available are completely damaged and older than 9 years of age. If you are lucky to get wind of an infant, then good luck getting the birth parents to sign off. There are so many scams in the the US where the birthmother tries to just get desperate couples, who only want a baby to fund there pregnancy, then they keep the child once it is born. The cost too in the US is about $60,000 if you qualify. It is also a wait of about 4 years plus." Why not a 9 year old? 9 years old is still a (wait for it) CHILD! Damaged? Man, kids aren't effing groceries. They aren't damaged. A little love and patience goes a long way. If you can't have kids, I would guess you probably wouldn't care unless you so miss those early infant stages. Then I would tell you that you're selfish! I equal adopting a 9 year old to marrying a single mother with a child of the same age. What's the difference?

Kanic, e.g. approximately 75% of Black children are currently born to unwed mothers ... so you're going to make those fathers pay for support or to provide for the cost of adoption! You'll be hunted to extinction as a racist if you try to hold them fathers accountable as you suggest. And as for little communists ... latest polls show over 50% of Democrats perfer Socialism to Democracy so we are moving toward a far more insidious form of government when our "most powerful man /(narcisist) in the world" and the Democrats get their way. Oh and those "churches" providing adoption services better be offering to pay for abortions and the kill-pill or Obama will put 'em out of business ... just sayin'

Damn, there goes my alternative to adopting a black kid if I want to raise a future sports star ( and retiring young). Oh well, on to plan "B".

OK EVERYONE, step back, take a deep breath, take another, and another. There now, let's think. WE the U.S. cannot solve the worlds problems. As well, we shouldn't keep trying. Look at how well we have done since the Viet Nam war. NOT GOOD, HAVE WE? The Middle East, is going to be the way it has since the beginning, it always will be. STOP telling every one else what to do, CLEAN up OUR own house FIRST!!! We look like such fools to the world now, not the good people we once were anymore. Just a bunch of greedy a$$hats running this country anymore.

Yes, but Russian children are so much better looking than American children.

This is just one more example of leaders putting their pride over their people. Until the people say enough, it will continue to happen! Children, the elderly, the already in-firmed, mentally ill and already destitute, should not be pawns to any government, for any reason. It's ridiculous.

Here is the first test: lets see what Obama has as a solution? For those that are supporters; lets see the action that is accomplished here. this is a test to see whether or not anything will be done at all. Once russia sees that what they thouhgt of his leadership is confirmed, then we are all doomed. Once again let me express my thanks for voting him in.....lemmings!

I guess we can still bring Russian women over to marry though. Scales67 you have the right idea. That's the only way it should be.

I think it's far worse that we adopt more Russian children than American ones than it is for Russia to act like a bratty little child like it always has.

That Americans would rather adopt Russian children because they're at least white instead of non-white American children is appalling, and if anyone should be enacting laws banning Americans from adopting Russian children, it should be us.

I just wanted to defend US adoption a little here because it seems to be getting a bad rap. I'm sorry that some of you had negative experiences, but there are many success stories, too. We adopted two infants in the U.S. and did not have a long wait time. We have many friends that have also adopted successfully in the U.S. (as well as friends who have adopted internationally including Russia) and, fortunately, none of them experienced a failed adoption either. Our friends have adopted in all manners - through foster to adopt, through adoption agencies and through adoption attorneys (which was our method).

There is no one right way to adopt. Each family must make the decision of what works for them. We heard all of the U.S. adoption stories and how expensive and impossible it is and it scared us. We started out international, but after 2.5 years of waiting for China and realizing it would be many more years with the current adoption wait in that country, we researched U.S. adoption more and talked to parents who had adopted in the U.S. and were able to see most cases are not like the horror stories we had heard. We withdrew from China and started the process to adopt domestically.

Adoption from any country is not an easy process and anyone that hasn't done so should not judge those that have. Being fingerprinted (by the police for domestic and at homeland security for international), being interviewed by social workers, taking classes, etc. just for the chance to be a parent is humbling.

As far as costs go, that varies wildly. The legal costs for both of our adoptions combined was less than the estimated costs from adopting from China.

Sorry this is so long, it's just very close to my heart.....

Frankly i'm glad, there's enough russian scumbag commies in this country already.

The railroads and laundries seem to be doing fine so there's no need for chineses commie orphans either.

However i'm all in favor of russian porn....."ooooooohhh baby leek my pussay! oooh ooh!"

As much as I am in support of adopting U.S. kids there is a reason to adopt Russian kids. The worst in America is still pretty good compared to the average in Russia. It's a terrible place there.

Better marry the ones that are young. All that hidden male DNA starts to show up in the late 30s on these "women" Ruff Ruff, they turn into real dogs.

Why would amerikanski want to adopt russian children, why dont you adopt your own. Ours are white and yours are well that is your own doing.Amerikanski think their money can buy them anything why not poor little russian children too. The US State Department is upset not about the adopting , but about the NGO's. let Amerika talk straight and not around in circles.

Maybe russia could now start to adopt your unwanted children and bring them to live in Mother Russia. no you would not like that idea now would you. We could tutn them into good little bolshiveks and then send them back to Amerika after they turn 21.

It does NOT cost 100k plus to adopt a child here in the U.S.!!! I did it for less than 10k. That was a rarity I know but still nowhere near 100k. If you do some research and pick the right attorney, it will be much easier,faster and cheaper. If you think you can waltz on down to an adoption agency and walk out with a child,well, that's not going to happen but you can get it done easier than most people think.

Oh, leave it to an ex-KGB aperachik to take it out on the suffering children. He doesn't give a rat's a$$ about Russia's over 700,000 orphans, nor the epidemic of alcoholism in his country that put so many of them in institutional care.

Hey, as long as they don't shut down the mail order Russian bride service....

If you give these chairs, they don't do much useful except sick things!

Look at the photo! He looks like a mafia boss!

I could care less. I'm tired of all these self-centered white folks going overseas to get a white child. It needs to stop. Let Russia deal with their own people. Americans need to wake up and mind our own business. We don't need any more muslims here either. When are we going to start deported the unwanted chinese that are here too.

Seewhat I mean188

I could care less. I'm tired of all these self-centered white folks going overseas to get a white child. It needs to stop. Let Russia deal with their own people. Americans need to wake up and mind our own business. We don't need any more muslims here either. When are we going to start deported the unwanted chinese that are here too.

Talk about a racist hypocrite. Americans need to mind their own business? How about you minding your own and not telling me where I have to adopt a child from?

To retaliate in kind, we would need to hold hostage kids here from 46 Russian families. I'm sure everyone would just be outraged. But Russia MUST be required to compensate all these families for all their adoption expenses...at the very least! (30 to $50,000 each) I bet Putin would not be such a "tough guy" if we took it out of HIS own bank accounts!

I think Putin just proved the U.S.'s point, they don't care about human rights and they'll hold the innocent hostage to prove it.

I do agree that U.S. families should try to adopt within our own borders. Adoption in the U.S. is not going to cost every family $100K as someone ignorantly suggested. I am friends with a couple that adopted their child at birth and it was around the $40K mark with the cost of travel and staying in a hotel in Vegas for 3 weeks. Conversely, I also know a couple that adopted out of China and it ran them about $65K for an adoption that was originally set to be $25k. The Chinese government keep tacking on $10k every 2 weeks for some fee or another and you can't back out due to what has already been invested both emotionally and monetarily. Every adoption situation is going to be different, you just roll the dice and hope for the best.

Children are so often the pawns in the games that adults like to play.

We're killing over 100 babies/fetuses AN HOUR and we are pointing fingers for human rights violations! Total hypocrites!!! And the rationale I read in these comments says it is better to kill the baby/fetus than deal with unwanted children ... HEY, IT IS BETTER TO STOP IRRESPONSIBLE SEX!!! Oh, sorry, have I violated someone's freedom or choice or rights ... or some political party's plank?

Russia was on TV a couple of weeks ago saying the population in Russia is on the decline .... Do the math ! You my not like, it but the guy got balls.... not like US.

I agree that Putin is just hurting his own country's children. However, from his prospective he's doing a 'good' thing nationally.

People seem to not understand the demographics of Russia and the situation that Putin is facing in the country. Russia has a decreasing population (negative growth), and a horrid life expectancy. (the last one mostly due to drinking) Russia is also a country where it has a fairly homogeneous population that doesn't play well with others. IE you better be Russian or you're a second class citizen. The population problem is so bad he literally introduced a holiday for Russians to go out and breed. He also tried to stem the drinking problem by introducing a limit on the amount of alcohol people could buy in a day. The last one didn't go over very well and he had to back off the limit. (Imagine that Russians will overthrow their government if they threaten their Vodka)

So he actually does care about the country both from the alcohol prospective and the birth rate prospective. Nationally this move is shrewd for him and we just gave him an excuse. Does it still doom kids to a crap existance? Yes, but when they grow up they will be Putin's tax cows and not ones in the US.

Kiss my ass Chris, I don't care where you adopt from but it wont be from over there.

Chris-I guess you are getting tired of inbreding within your trailer park with your cousins? It would be good to mix a little different blood in there with that. All that comes out of your communities are a bunch of backwards ass redneck inbreds that end up like that Lanza kid. All that DNA can't keep mixing. Your kids will be born with 3 feet and 29 toes. So before you hook up with Becky-Sue, think about what you are doing to your own race. Whites are the minoritiy in this country-face it. I have. Thats what you get. They shouldve stayed in their own country

Catherine,

You couldn't be more right. My cousin adopted two children from Ukraine and I saw them yesterday. They are now 13 and 10. Both girls are beautiful, intelligent, and THRIVING. I hate to think what might have happened to them if it were not for this adoption...God Help us all.

Idiotic, maniac and a self centered one!

No, Outin is a political partisan and will do whatever he sees fit to get what he wants.

Yes by all means, please make more room for central americans and and africans...

Oh, no kidding! Don't want those Central Americans or Africans in this country. No way. The 'great melting pot' shouldn't include any color in it.

Hey SDN in case you haven't noticed the melting pot thing is a failure.

We don't need muslims over here. This land was stolen from the Natives. South-Americans have a right to be here more than you! I'm sure you are proud of your ancestors that raped and robbed and stole from people that thought you were theyre friends. Gives you a warm feeling in your heart of stone I'm sure.

...This land was stolen from the Natives. South-Americans have a right to be here more than you! I'm sure you are proud of your ancestors that raped and robbed and stole from people that thought you were theyre friends. Gives you a warm feeling in your heart of stone I'm sure.

See...188, no one has more right to be here than me. My ancestors came, saw and conquered the "people" that inhabited this land, swept them to the side and civilized it. I'm here supporting what they built by working, paying taxes, raising able, stable and educated children who also deserve to be here more than some mud, third worlder who should have gone extinct defending "their" land. Proud of my ancestors? Damn right I'm proud of my ancestors, you should be too, because without them you still living in a fu**ing cave picking ticks off your kids. By the way: I'm sure your ancestors have done just as much raping, robbing and stealing as anyone else's.

especially the Russian bride service, who pull their two years and bolt.

Ramay - you are right. Next Chinese will conquer you , sweep you to the side and civilize the land.

Hey sselrat, it won't be the Chinese, not physically anyway. It's our own government replacing we original Americans with the third worlders I mentioned earlier. Most of us don't/won't recognize the genocide for what it is and therefore won't stand against it; and if things don't change, you're sort of right, in that we'll be swept aside, but the land will "decivilze" and fall into chaos.

Ramay-TOUCHE! Nicely done.

If you want to be technical... The "natives" were immigrants from Russia crossing the land bridge.

your all wrong ..if you were born here your a native american...now where's my @!$%#in casino!!!

malith, if you want to be truly accurate the Solutreans arrived in what would become the eastern U.S. about 20,000 years ago from Western Europe. I don't think the Asians that crossed the Bering land bridge made it down this low until several thousand years later.

Deport all the Asians and inbred white southern trash back to their own part of the world. We don't need or want you here.

Suffer the little children....while these fools spar over politics...disgusting.

Shut up Meg! Just kidding. I think I might be watching too much Family Guy. Putin is an idiot though. It's pretty childish and pathetic to use children as a weapon for any reason.

the children Fitz. they suffer. Russia has HORRID conditions for those children.

I wish Putin was an idiot.

Unfortunately, he knows exactly what he is doing.

If the world is outraged about innocent orphans hurt by politics, Putin can take that little blow to his reputation just fine. He has 6 years ahead of him and no worthy opponents on the horizon.

Obama, on the other hand, only has 4 years and the opposition is lining up. He really does not need this crap splatter onto him.

Obama can't run in 4 years?

(In case you can't tell that's not a true question, it's a puzzled statement that you forget about the 22nd ammendement)

No doubt if there was a republican in the whitehouse we would be invading Russia while paying for it with a magic credit card.

Jon

that's really dumb

NO, tom mc, it is dead on. Deomcrats are accused of tax and spend which is far superior to republicans that just spend.

Who said anything about American children being more worthy than others?? Who said I was even American? You're not only righteous but presumptuous as well. If you read the full comment you can see I asked "who is he punishing?" The assumption is, the children of Russia. I didn't say they deserved it.

Sterilize these dirt bag drunk women. Less babies the better

@seewhat I mean188, why don't we sterilize the dirt bag drunk men! Stop blaming the women, it actually takes the man to have sex with the woman to make that baby. Maybe you need sex education classes. A man is just as responsible for preventing pregnancy as a woman is.

The kids are the only ones who suffer. What I hate is both governments continue to fuel the hate between each other and manipulate their population to feel the same way. Even though we would have more in common with the average Russian then any of the politicians in charge of both countries.

No the crack babies are in the U.S. That's why people adopt from Russia!

Mr Binkie -- I know parents who've adopted from Russia. They have the same issues as the US. Drinking and street drugs leads to the kids being dumped, removed or orphaned. Some involve parental mental illness. Adoption can be a crap shoot as far as predicting the kid's future development. Birthing your own kid isn't much better.

If you birth or adopt a kid expecting no difficulties, you are delusional.

If these babies were born to well to do up-standing parents then they wouldn't be up for adoption. These are the social rejects.

The ghettos and poverty are more wide spread in Russia than they are here. The difference between the two is the opportunity that exists for poor people in the US. We (I'm a perfect example) can work our way out if we decide too. In addition, it is just too damn difficult to even adopt a crack baby in the US. If you're going to get a "project" you might as well get one at a lower cost that has greater needs. Regardless, this is just a pissing contest for Putin.

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to
breathe free;
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the
homeless,
Tempest-tossed to me
I lift my lamp beside the golden
door!

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs
astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed sunset gates shall
stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame is the imprisoned
lightning,
And her name, Mother of Exiles.
From her beacon-hand glows
world-wide welcome;
Her mild eyes command the air-bridged harbor
That twin
cities frame.
"Keep, Ancient Lands, your storied pomp!"
Cries she with
silent lips.

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to
breathe free;
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the
homeless,
Tempest-tossed to me
I lift my lamp beside the golden
door!

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to
breathe free;
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the
homeless,
Tempest-tossed to me
I lift my lamp beside the golden
door!

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs
astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed sunset gates shall
stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame is the imprisoned
lightning,
And her name, Mother of Exiles.
From her beacon-hand glows
world-wide welcome;
Her mild eyes command the air-bridged harbor
That twin
cities frame.
"Keep, Ancient Lands, your storied pomp!"
Cries she with
silent lips.

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to
breathe free;
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the
homeless,
Tempest-tossed to me
I lift my lamp beside the golden
door!

'MERICA

Try it... or even look into it. I know two couples who adopted in the US - one took 9 years and $135K. The other had to give the child back to the drug addict biological mother. I also know people who have adopted internationally... great kids (who ALSO needed loving homes), less money and less time. If you don't think that's a big deal, try talking to a 38 year old woman who just learned she cannot have a child - then tell her and her husband to wait 9 years and fork over the price of a small house, OR go elsewhere to find a just-as-worthy and wonderful child.

I agree with you Alien. I know for a fact that it is not as hard as some would have it seem to adopt an American orphan.

It's been like a fad, 'let's go overseas and adopt-a-pet'. Those who choose to go overseas to adopt should be subjected to a criminal and mental health investigations, shake some skeletons out of those closets.

And what's with the actresses going over and acquiring little Black babies? Thumbs up to Sandra Bullock for opting to adopt one from Louisiana.

Greedy? You P.O.S.

This is the only way many of these families can even have children. Get your facts straight before you attack people.

Silverrob has never adopted any children at all.

I tried adopting here in the US. It did NOT happen. I adopted a beautiful, healthy, adorable, blessed little girl from Mexico. She is now 11 years old. So as plsthink90 said, "don't cast stones".

Jesse, you are an idiot!

Jessie and terry you both rock-Elvis you are excused to leave the building.

As with other similar comments, adopting a child from the United States is not easy. When my wife and I adopted internationally sixteen years ago, one of the major factors that we we concerned about was that the biological parent(s) could change their minds and take our baby back. We were not going to risk that. I imagine it would be like the death of a child. We felt safe that the likelyhood that a biological parent overseas was going to knock on our door one day wanting their baby was very low. The other almost as important factor was that the need for homes for these international children was so great. At that time in China, death was a very real possibility for these unwanted children. My heart goes out to American children who need adopting.

Thank you for your comment Mike. This headline made me so sad but what you pointed out is true - if the shoe was on the other foot there would be the exact same outcry. Why anyone, in any country, would go through the lengthy and expensive process of adoption only to neglect the child is beyond me. I feel just awful for the parents who were already in the process of their adoptions, which will now likely not occur.

Thank you for your common sense!

The case of the child left in the car was an ACCIDENT! Happens all the time, it just so happens this poor man who has to live with the guilt everyday of his life, had adopted a child from Russia.

Mike,

Over 95 percent of Russian adoptions are great successes. The media always focuses on the very few bad ones. Finally, they FORGET to mention that the guy who left his son in the car DID go to prison on other charges, and his wife filed for divorce. So NO, he did not get away free!

Yep, that is the same arrogant self righteous crap I was talking about. You go buddy, that is why the world hates our uppity asses so much.

Maybe some of those "arrogant righteous women" HAD to put their children in daycare because the children's "arrogant righteous" daddies decided they didn't feel like having responsibilities and took off, leaving those "arrogant righteous women" no choice but to work to feed their children.

@spudson, you need to talk to someone about your bitterness!...Woman have HAD to go out and work, if you don't have a clue on this, we are past the days of a *one job* family. If there is two people, there must be two jobs to survive. I'm sure there's lots of woman out there that would LOVE to stay home with their children...but they can't.

Clearly using one example of an adopted child being neglected is just an excuse as most adopted here I'm sure are well treated and have a much better life than they would have had. I think they should pass laws that if the biological parent voluntarily gives up a child for adoption they can never dispute it or sue to regain parental rights. With that threat eliminated maybe there'd be more adoptions of our own abandoned kids.

Who cares... there are plenty of children in this and other countries that deserve a good home.

I'm thinking that ya'll kinda missed spud's sarcasm. Reread the comment without blinders.

Romney lost, get over it.

Wow, you actually found a way to blame Obama for this one. I'm not even angry I'm impressed. With some further investigation you can find Obama is responsible for the Russian Communist Revolution.

How many US children have you adopted, TruthComesHere?

royalstar- it's not about Romney losing, it's about promises being kept and fulfilled. Voters voted, now we await results...

LOL...Point is Mr. Obama is so eager to get noticed by ALL world leaders he does things that actually hurt us instead of helping us. First lesson he SHOULD learn is Russia is really not our friend. Romney was NOT my choice nor do I care that he lost. What I care about is the direction our country is headed under Mr. Obama and the massive debt we continue to grow. Taxing the rich will not solve that by itself.

ummm misla - I have not adopted any nor do I care to. The point you missed is that WE have plenty of children here to adopt why bring Russian kids here ahead of them?

Nobama and Romney were two puppets. Quit pretending this stuff matters people, because it doesn't. Its a puppet show to keep you fighting amongst yourselves and keep you distracted. Nobody ever looks for the puppeteer, they all throw rotten vegetables at the puppet. Why not blame the guy pulling the strings for a awful show? If Romney would've won it would've been the same thing war, spend, tax, crony capitalism etc. pretty much what we got now except the Re-puke-licans would be cheering on Romney who would be doing the same stuff Nobama is doing now which the Dummy-crats love.

Geez Truth,

You really messed up on this one. As far as working to get our children adopted, what have you done? You seem to forget that most of OUR adoptable children are 15 to 21 years old. Why dont you work to get the 18 to 21 year olds JOBS instead of looking for rich parents? You should take one of these messed up teenagers for a weekend, then you would see the "TRUTH" !!

MTman - It is NOT my job to fix unemployment that is pretty much stuck around 8% THAT is what Mr. Obama is supposed to be doing. Unfortunately he has a taxation plan not a job creation plan. Nor is it my job to work to get these kids adopted. There are plenty more children that are not teenagers I am sure that need to be adopted. If these kids are "messed up" as you say then why is that? Because of the breakdown of family values perhaps? Yeah, that pretty much sums up a lot of problems in this country. As far as employing them and others, there are a few ways to get jobs in this country that YOU and others can do and that is Buy American from American "owned" companies. But look in your driveway or your neighbors to see just part of the problem. Supporting U.S. companies is the best way to get our economy back on track. The argument that foreign companies employ thousands pales in comparison to the multiple thousands that American companies employ. Those jobs also include higher paying corporate positions instead of just factory work. The plus side of that is also that their profits stay here helping our GDP and GNP which also helps our economy. I am not wanting to go over the cliff but I also am not willing to let the Democrats continue to spend at will. Sooner or later someone will have to pay for that. Spending money you don't have will eventually cause a bigger collapse than controlling our spending. If you want to look at a few examples I think California would be a great place to start. Not only have a couple of their cities gone bankrupt but the state itself is near that threshold as well because they spend more than they take in. Have a Happy New Year.

Bolsehvik, KGB, Secret Police, gangsters, mafia .... what was once a proud country seems to now be run a a delusional man that the world views as a comic book character. Staging events to make himself look strong and then jailing a couple of girls for criticizing him. Stopping adoptions so Russian orphans cannot leave the country. Yikes. One day the russian citizens will revolt and "kick him out" or worse so he can then bathe in his mobster gained profits. Where is God in Russia????? And just in case "Put In" is listening if the U.S. is so bad I encourage you to resign from the United Nations and all other U.S. supported organizations. Maybe the girl band will hire you as you truly are representative of their name.

we have friends that tried also. It is so hard to do in this Country.

Yes it is extremly difficult, time consuming and expensive to adopt in this country. A coworker gave up after three years of paperwork and red tape and adopted from overseas within a year. We personally had no interest in adopting from the US knowing the hassle that it would be and adopted from overseas in just over a years time. No regrets at all doing it that way. A child is a child no matter the country of their birth.

So let's force American women to keep having MORE children by further restricting their access to affordable basic reproductive heathcare and all methods of preventing unintended pregnancies as well as those from "legitimate rape". Great solution, eh? Damn "conservative thinking" again.

Shut up 2nd...........that's not what this is about, so take your political bs elsewhere.

But yes, we've looked into US adoptions and we could do the job (our only natural child is great), but the process and cost is prohibitive.

US kids are forced into military all the time, ie. they get employment in the war machine, which only promisses them that for three square meals a day and a tent over their heads they may get killed on the job. I know of kids that keep telling that military is their only option in life. How sad.

Smooth. Not true ......Our military is entirely voluntary. You are free to pursue whatever you wish.....You still have to sign that line ..... They do have a choice.

PValdes - you are free to believe, whatever you believe. Theoretically you are correct. In practice ??? US kids have the options to be "sports stars" or a soldiers, and 99.9% "voluntarily pick" the soldier's job because they all love their country so much that for a small fee they are ready to go and kill or br killed, legaly.

I actually picked software developer....I don't see that on your list.

Viewer_Ready...you are SO right, on both of your comments!

and it doesn't take someone to *adopt* before they have knowledge of this subject! You are correct, WE have plenty of children to adopt, right here, right now, with probably lot less hassles ????

And for Putin, I've ALWAYS thought he was creepy, cold and heartless...guess I was correct

Viewer-Ready, You are the same kind of person that protests abortion but doesn't adopt the unwanted babies - all mouth and no heart. One of the biggest reasons people don't want to adopt US orphans is that they are not orphans. These kids have relatives: mothers, fathers, grandparents, aunts, and uncles that don't want them when they are sick, angry little creatures with multitudes of problems; however, as soon as the difficult years have passed and the children become settled into the new family and cute because they are now quiet and happy (non-violent and potty trained) their relatives get a few minutes of visitation and the crack mom gets free legal assistance to go all the way toward getting the baby back. Who would want to go through that? It's a heartbreaking scenario for the adoptive parents and the child. The laws are unreasonable and do not look after the children and the people who step up to the plate. If your laws don't protect those people, they eventually go elsewhere.

Many of the adoptable kids in the USA are 15 years or older. Essentially they are already young women and men. Many people who want to adopt, want to raise a child. What's wrong with that?

Well these drunk women got knocked up somehow in Russia. So where are their babies daddys? I'm sure they have mothers and aunts so on and so forth. Thats bull. A women can't get pregnant by themselves.

I have adopted none.

I have raised three children on my own.

I have friends who spent fortunes trying to adopt from China and other places.

The fact remains that there are children in the US who can be adopted all the time.

So, what is your point?

and how many have YOU adopted? if you have, does this make you more knowledgable?

I've saw where you have wrote this same comment on other peoples comments....what IS your point?...I'm quite curious

None of these people spouting out judgments have adopted any children of their own. Therefore, they have no personal experience with adoption. And their "friends" having adopted doesn't count as personal experience.

What Viewer Ready misses is that less than 1 percent of all adoptable US kids are 12 or under! (About 1,000 of 125,000 ) Most are over 15 years old up to 21 years old. If Viewer Ready or any one else is really so concerned about these teenagers and adults, why dont THEY adopt them! Or just try fostering one for a weekend. After they set fire to the house, rape your other kids, and wreck the car...then Viewer Ready and others will understand why they are still available for adoption!

This may be a hidden blessing for children within our own country that need to be adopted. Why import when we have an abundance of these resources MADE right here IN THE USA! On another note! If these well qualified elected officials (hmmm!) don't get their act together, Americans wont be afford to able to adopt a child anyway.

So true!

The kids of russia need to be adopted awhole lot more than the kids of the U.S.

To Hell with Russia! Its about time we started to have concern over the kids right here in America.