Ghostkeeper: I’m familiar with the cultural destruction that occurred for the children “adopted” in this country, as well as sent to schools (mostly run by religious zealots) to destroy their language and culture..
While orphan status is terrible in much of the world, notably in several countries in eastern Europe, what cultural history will these American adopters grant these kids, and why CAN’T they adopt in the U.S.? Yes, I’m familiar with the “difficulties” associated with legal adoption in the U.S., but most of those rules are to protect the kids.
Which, if we care so much for orphans, why do we keep maintaining “foreign policy” that creates so many?
robert: sorry if it was unclear. I know what happened to the tribal folks here in North America losing their kids to the “schools” that was first comment.
My second comment related to our making orphans in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other places where we CHOSE to start wars against whole populations to “get” a few hundred “bad guys” (at most). I was NOT meaning to imply we were making orphans in Russia. People forget how many orphans we created in Nicaragua, and Panama, for that matter.
pam Miner over 11 years ago
Russia doesn’t want it’s people treated right, so now he is making sure these helpless orphans lives are miserable too. I guess.
Dtroutma over 11 years ago
Ghostkeeper: I’m familiar with the cultural destruction that occurred for the children “adopted” in this country, as well as sent to schools (mostly run by religious zealots) to destroy their language and culture..
While orphan status is terrible in much of the world, notably in several countries in eastern Europe, what cultural history will these American adopters grant these kids, and why CAN’T they adopt in the U.S.? Yes, I’m familiar with the “difficulties” associated with legal adoption in the U.S., but most of those rules are to protect the kids.
Which, if we care so much for orphans, why do we keep maintaining “foreign policy” that creates so many?
Dtroutma over 11 years ago
robert: sorry if it was unclear. I know what happened to the tribal folks here in North America losing their kids to the “schools” that was first comment.
My second comment related to our making orphans in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other places where we CHOSE to start wars against whole populations to “get” a few hundred “bad guys” (at most). I was NOT meaning to imply we were making orphans in Russia. People forget how many orphans we created in Nicaragua, and Panama, for that matter.