Quote Originally Posted by Throbert McGee View Post
In other words, children who may be especially difficult to place for adoption inside Russia. One of my Russian friends used the phrase «собака на сене» to describe it: "We don't really want these kids, but YOU can't have them, either."

I completely understand why the Russian public was outraged by the Dima Yakovlev case, but that doesn't justify this new law.
The common run of people base their judgments not on statistics but on what they see and hear via media. If some observable examples are negative and emotionally colored then the public opinion quickly gets negative. Hence, in accordance with the law of Hume’s induction* people jump to conclusions and tend to spread theses negative cases on all cases regardless of the existing statistics. It’s as simple as that. So, the comparison with “dogs in the monger” may be a little bit far-fetched, since people tend to subconsciously think the fate of Russian children in the USA is far from a bed of roses.

Frankly, I’m not going to justify the “raw emotions” and vindictiveness of Russian politicians and personally do think the “retaliation” law is pretty stupid , yet still I wonder why do you need children from other countries when you have lots of orphans in the USA? I asked himself the question ‘how many orphans are in America?’ and got that the figure is probably more than 100,000.
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So, I don’t understand the urge to go to Russia and other countries and adopt children there if you have plenty of your own kids ready to be adopted. I may miss something simple and important, though.
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