I think it's because of all the press over the woman in Tennessee? Kentucky? who adopted a Russian boy and then put him on a plane back to Russia - alone because she said he had "problems". Bound to bring up all the adopted Russian stories..... Maybe it didn't make the news in DR, but they plastered it all over the place in Russia and USA.
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I know a bit about this business in Russia.
Adoptions in Russia are for the most part just another flesh-peddling scheme for many nefarious individuals. Many of these 'orphans" come from abused, dysfunctional families and many of these poor discarded children are born with all manner of undiagnosed issues-fetal alcohol syndrome, learning disorders, behavior management issues-you name it. It runs the gamut.
Very common to see young, pregnant, poor Russians females drinking, smoking and injecting drugs while still out on the streets turning tricks.
And the average Russian/Eastern European orphanage will give a comparable developing nation a run for it's money in terms of squalor and neglect.
The farther east one travels in Europe, the cheaper life is.
that's just how it is. And these orphanages do not have the resources to even diagnose these issues much less treat them. I'm in no way advocating these children being left in the streets, but many foreign parents desperate to adopt a child get taken in by the desperate straits these children are in and don't really understand what they're in for when you take in a child with such problems as I've described above.