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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ukraine now and 20 years ago isn't equivalent to the US in the 50s vs now. Let's say 90% of women that were low income and gave birth and now in a better place would not want to have your daughter show up. The 10% that might no longer live in Ukraine/Russia. They got out.[/quote]

There are still similar attitudes about adoption.  [b]Why do you think there are so few in country adoptions?[/b][/quote]

I'm the one who volunteered in orphanages in that region.  This is true: adoption is viewed differently there.  If there is anybody at all who cares about a pregnant woman, they will discourage her from placing her child up for adoption and do whatever they can to help her (unless the baby is deformed or disabled: there was and still is a higher degree of acceptance--even encouragement--to place these types of children in orphanages, which is part of the reason there are so few in-country adoptions and also part of the reason for the high proportion of US parents raising adopted children whose disabilities or FAS came as a surprise).

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