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There is an article on ABCnews.com about problems with International Adoption. The main focus of this story is a couple adopting from Belarus, but I think that everybody that is adopting internationally should look at it.
Here is the link, but I have no idea how long it will remain good.
[url]http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=953017&page=1[/url]
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Ah! I am so disappointed when people say that Belarus is a "lovely" country, like this couple from the ABC article. The orphanage they visited was in Minsk, the capital of the country-- yes, it's a beautiful city... but if you travel five miles outside the city you get a clearer picture of how the rest of the country lives. The orphanages in and around Minsk are notoriously better equipped than those further away. I wish they would send foreigners to cities like Bobrysk, or Gomel, where in one city more than three orphanages are overflowing with "undesirables": children who are mentally or physically scarred because of the Chernobyl disaster. Or to the little villages dotting the countryside, where water (not to mention hot water) is a luxery, and a toilet is a shed out back.Lovely...
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