Putin signs bill banning Americans from adopting Russian children

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[executivehpfan]

How incredibly fucked up. I hope those families are able to complete the process and bring home their babies before the legislation takes effect.

I've been in a cloud of school and work for the past few months, so I may be missing something here, but...did anything predicate this particular move by Putin?

[lakomka87]

well he's always been an asshole?
anyway, what this article doesn't mention, is that this law is supposed to be the 'punishment' for the Magnitsky bill

[pleasure_past]

Oh wow. After reading the article in the OP my heart went out to the people whose adoptions are being interrupted by this, but I was almost willing to assume pure motives from Putin (for once), given that earlier this year an American actually sent her adopted Russian child back and last year an American abused her adopted Russian child to get onto TV. But, um, it was probably foolish of me to ever consider giving Putin the benefit of the doubt on anything.

[lakomka87]

these are individual cases (there had been more of them before actually, but not lately), there needs to be a better screening process, but most of the russian children adopted by american parents end up living wonderful lives. but what saddens me the most, is that healthcare here is fucked and the reason a big portion of children given up for adoption is poor health (even minor heart problems), a lot of the adopted children end up receiving medical attention in america that isn't provided to them in russia.

[idemandjustice]

Yeah, I was also assuming there were decent reasons behind this decision. Damn.

[tamingheadfauna]

I just hope that the families who had pending petitions at the time the law was passed are somehow grandfathered in.