Russia bans US adoptions; DUmmy blames white people, of course

[BannedFromDU]

undeterred (32,439 posts)

Russia bans adoption of orphans by U.S. couples
Source: Los Angeles Times

By Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times December 28, 2012, 4:13 p.m.

MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law banning the adoption of Russian orphans by U.S. families, the Kremlin announced Friday. The measure was widely seen as a retaliation for the Sergei Magnitsky Act passed by Congress and signed by President Obama this month, which imposed sanctions on Russian officials involved in the death of an imprisoned lawyer in 2009 after he blew the whistle on a multimillion-dollar tax refund scam allegedly orchestrated by tax inspectors and police officers.

An adoption agreement signed and ratified by the two countries in June will be annulled after Jan. 1, Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the television news network Russia-24.

Over the last two decades, Americans have adopted more than 60,000 Russian children. About 1,500 such adoption cases are in Russian courts, 52 of them in the final approval stage. The Kremlin's envoy for children's rights, Pavel Astakhov, told radio station Echo of Moscow that these children will not go to the United States but will be among the first to be adopted by Russian families.

Along with the controversial law, Putin also signed a decree providing financial perks, privileges and other measures to encourage adoptions in Russia, which have never run higher than 7,000 annually in recent years. There are more than 600,000 orphans in Russia.

Political tit-for-tat? Nahhhh - just ask a DUmmy who's to blame, and they take a deep breath:

valerief (34,267 posts)
13. Traditionally in the U.S. haven't most available adoptees been black? Racist America, home of

the NRA Congress and where the U.S. serving-the-wealthy-only corporate media gives its current President less respect than someone who stole your parking space, doesn't care about black orphans, IMHO.

     Wow - Racist? check. NRA? check. Corporate media? check. The trifecta of irrelevance is complete. All that's missing is a WalMart and a NASCAR reference.

[thundley4]

valerief (34,267 posts)
13. Traditionally in the U.S. haven't most available adoptees been black? Racist America, home of

the NRA Congress and where the U.S. serving-the-wealthy-only corporate media gives its current President less respect than someone who stole your parking space, doesn't care about black orphans, IMHO.

The liberals in charge have made adoptions so hard to achieve in the US it's ridiculous.  Then, there is the fear of having the adopted child reclaimed by one or the other of the birth parents, and the liberal courts usually side with the birth parents.  Why put up with the hassle and take the risk of losing the child back to one of the birth parents?

[formerlurker]

The liberals in charge have made adoptions so hard to achieve in the US it's ridiculous.  Then, there is the fear of having the adopted child reclaimed by one or the other of the birth parents, and the liberal courts usually side with the birth parents.  Why put up with the hassle and take the risk of losing the child back to one of the birth parents?

My husband and I looked into adoption (China - was half way into process when I finally got pregnant) many years ago and you nailed it right here.   

[formerlurker]

Russia has done this several times over the years haven't they?  

All it takes is this and it's ban???   what ban??  you see a ban?

God bless the parents who have adopted from Russia.   A most corrupt system from A to Z.

[andhe78]

The liberals in charge have made adoptions so hard to achieve in the US it's ridiculous.  Then, there is the fear of having the adopted child reclaimed by one or the other of the birth parents, and the liberal courts usually side with the birth parents.  Why put up with the hassle and take the risk of losing the child back to one of the birth parents?

This is it exactly, my wife was adopted as a very young child and some of the stories she tells about these types of incidents are heartbreaking.

[ChuckJ]

valerief (34,267 posts)
13. Traditionally in the U.S. haven't most available adoptees been black? Racist America, home of

the NRA Congress and where the U.S. serving-the-wealthy-only corporate media gives its current President less respect than someone who stole your parking space, doesn't care about black orphans, IMHO

Strange. I seem to recall seeing a show or reading an article not too long back in which some black people and black 'leaders' were complaining about white couples adopting black orphans. They (meaning the black folks) were against it.

[jukin]

I do not know if black babies are more available for adoption but I do know that most abortions are black babies.

[thundley4]

I do not know if black babies are more available for adoption but I do know that most abortions are black babies.

Sh, stop that.  The left doesn't want them to know that their pro abortion stance is in reality a racist belief in white people having more of a right to life.

[Celtic Rose]

Russia has done this several times over the years haven't they?  

All it takes is this and it's ban???   what ban??  you see a ban?

God bless the parents who have adopted from Russia.   A most corrupt system from A to Z.

I knew a couple that adopted from Russia a number of years ago.  At that time, only children with certain defects were able to be adopted internationally, so they had doctors forging all sorts of paperwork to allow them to leave the country with their children. 

[thundley4]

I knew a couple that adopted from Russia a number of years ago.  At that time, only children with certain defects were able to be adopted internationally, so they had doctors forging all sorts of paperwork to allow them to leave the country with their children. 

They talked about this on Fox News recently.  It seems that there are still lots of children that Russians won't adopt because of some perceived inferiority in their genetic make-up.  If the birth parents are poor and miserable, then the children aren't wanted.