So no more childeren are going to be adopted by American families. Theres a ton of politics, reasoning and chaotic discourse over this but plain and simple...Russia wants to keep its childeren and will do so.
The interesting aspect that I have noticed in regards to this controversy however is the criticism that the "adoption reform" movement is placing upon the adoptive parents of the international adoption programs. The criticism is often, "they shouldn't be adopting one child but donate that money to the orphanage"
Have they ever seen the lives these kids live in orphanages? The answer is NO. Why?
The answer is simple. International adoption doesn't sell any self published books or get any hits on American "adoption reform" blogs thus. the issue doesn't matter to "adoption reform" bio-moms and sullen hearted adoptees within the movement.
There is no fundraising, no activism and no thought about actual kids. There is however a healthy amount of blame shifted from the "adoption reform movement" toward any parent that actually wants to parent these children.
This however is a very good thing.
On average, 11,000 Russian children were adopted and brought into the USA via international adoption per year. The want of the future adoptive parent will now have to focus to domestic adoption and other sources of international adoption that have been woefully neglected.
Adoption carries on without the need for self published books or self directed internal dialogs.....kids need families and families need kids. This fact is what saddens me the most about the "adoption reform movement" (Can it even be called a movement anymore?) These ladies just cant believe that the world still spins after they tell their "narrative". The world...does not care. We wake up and hug our kids and adopt and get careers and our kids grow up and have kids or adopt....all the while no one asks them for permission or their thoughts on the matter. Its the self absorption that saddens me most.
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