Doomer's been banned? I hope it's not permanent! He always struck me as basically a good guy.

On the other hand, I think I can guess why Doomer's topic (about people giving away their adopted children to strangers as though they were unwanted kittens!) was deleted. It only took me a few minutes to find the Reuters news story that he was referring to, and indeed it's full of VERY disturbing details -- however, these horrible cases represent a tiny fraction of the total number of foreign children adopted by Americans each year, and it's far from clear that America is significantly worse than other countries when it comes to the abuse of adopted children. So I can see why out moderator(s) might have considered the thread to be a potential magnet for trolls and flames.

By the way, you can Google for "Nicole and Calvin Eason" if you want to read the story; it's quite awful, with "flawed" kids from Russia, China, Guatemala, Liberia, and other countries being passed from home to home like secondhand furniture. And I found myself wondering how the reporters managed to restrain themselves from beating these scumbag "adoptive parents" to death with a shovel.