Somebody needs to ask Russia what they do with they orphaned kids at age 16. Answer: They give them a few bucks, put their backpacks on them and gently shove them out the door of the orphanage into the streets where over 40% of them end up in drugs and prostitution. Its horrible.
My brother in law and his wife have adopted 3 kids most recently a 14 year old as they just couldn’t bear the thought that this sweet,studious, smart kid would end up on the streets.
In fact by law they keep children until age 18 and provide them property to live in after leaving orphanges just to make them victims of crooked realtors most of the time. Often with assistance from corrupted orphanages’s stuff due to a complete lack of social interaction skills on side of these children.
Russian orphanage system is absolute flawed, a real dustbin, producing drug-addicts, gangsters and prostitutes.
Adoption, both domestic (which is extremely rare) or foreign often a single chance for kids to get socialized.
I find all of this nationalistic crap on how bad Americans in treating their adopted kids an extreme hypocrisy.
16? Depending on the orphanage the kids may run away or just disappear much younger.
We saw 10 yr olds standing outside our son’s orphanage smoking. We saw a girl of about 13 meeting her foreign “john” in the lobby of our hotel.
Our adoption facilitator “rescued” a 12 yr old she saw at the hotel and took her to a children’s home- no telling if she stayed
Some Russian orphanages pimp out the kids, westerners aren’t welcome to visit them. In Russia we met people adopting a kid from an orphanage in a region so polluted with radiation, they brought the kid to meet them, they wouldnt let them go to the orphanage
We met another couple who found out after medical consult that their darling baby girl referral had a potentally fatal kidney condition and decided to adopt her anyway and get her back to the US and surgery asap, and to stay in Russia with her and get her on meds and a special diet for the 2 months it was going to take for the adoption
I remember reading some some medical missionaries in Irkutsk desperately trying to find parents for a girl missing 3 limbs (congential) because she was to be sent to an imbecile asylum, the only facility for kids with any special needs
Watch this documentary if you have a strong stomach - the Children of Leningradsky
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2qf5q_the-children-of-leningradsky-1-of-2_people
Ya know, thats why hypocrites like this grandstanding anti-US, anti adoption Russian guy PISS ME OFF
But on the other hand, we met MANY kind very caring and concerned Russians who waanted to get the kids families and GET THEM OUT of a system and a society where they will never succeeed
fwiw
We lucked out. Our 2 adopted Russkis are now 14, they have issues but not unmanageable and thank GOD neither is RAD! They are dear good people