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American adoptive mothers
get their Russian kids
Associated Press, by Jim Heintz
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Posted By:Fiesta del sol, 2/10/2013 9:18:37 AM
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| After weeks of anxiety plodding through the opaque Russian legal system, two U.S. women have custody of their adopted Russian children and are preparing to take them home to start a new life together. Jeana Bonner of South Jordan, Utah, and Rebecca Preece from Nampa, Idaho, told The Associated Press on Saturday about the expenses, the confusion and emotional swings they’ve gone through since arriving in Moscow in mid-January, expecting to quickly leave with their children, both of whom have Down syndrome.
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Comments:
Some joyous news.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
MDConservative, 2/10/2013 10:04:41 AM (No. 9168512)
I´m going to be cold here. This Russian baby business is like the Cubans opening their jails and asylums for the Mariel boatlift in 1980. I´ve seen too many just in my area suffering with fetal alcohol syndrome and other afflictions. And the accompanying demands for "services" in the schools and elsewhere,where the kids become severe problems. If loving adults want to take these kids away from their homelands and into their homes, please don´t stick America with the medical and social bill.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
devnull, 2/10/2013 10:16:19 AM (No. 9168525)
Link is broken. This one works http://news.yahoo.com/american-adoptive-mothers-russian-kids-131326189.html. To go through all of that; to adopt special needs children and to rescue them from a system that has a less-than-stellar reputation for how it cares for children with these kinds of problems, wow. I know there are many children looking for their forever home in America, but the future of special needs kids in other countries is far more bleak. God bless these Moms, their Husbands, and their families.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
coldoc, 2/10/2013 10:36:34 AM (No. 9168564)
We have a shortage of down syndrome kids, so now we have to import them?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Talk2, 2/10/2013 11:08:05 AM (No. 9168612)
There aren´t enough adoptive kids in this country?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jalo1951, 2/10/2013 11:12:19 AM (No. 9168618)
Believe it or not we do have a "shortage" of Downs children. I was talking with one of our special education teachers who informed me that 90% of Downs babies are aborted. We currently only have one Downs child in our program. The rest have other conditions. I understand #1 concern and #2 heart. I don´t know what the answer is. I just hope things work out for those new families.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
jlw509, 2/10/2013 12:26:21 PM (No. 9168740)
#3, I thought most people realized that the Down´s Syndrome kids in this country have been systematically located, targeted, and killed. There are few survivors of this intentional massacre.
Down´s Syndrome does not call into question these children´s humanity, but our own.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
columba, 2/10/2013 3:47:20 PM (No. 9169017)
Are not there any FATHERS involved?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Heraclitus, 2/10/2013 5:54:41 PM (No. 9169180)
Russia has a negative birth rate. This means that it´s a dying civilization. Culturally, spiritually, morally, the Commies wrecked Russia in 1917.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
volksford, 2/10/2013 6:40:07 PM (No. 9169228)
Got news for you # 8, we are headed in the same direction !
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
msjena, 2/10/2013 11:24:20 PM (No. 9169483)
Wow--I am shocked at some of the posts here! These children were abandoned and face a horrible life, even leaving aside their handicap. If there are people here who want to adopt them, what is wrong with that? How many Downs syndrome children are enough, by the way? Should we put a quota on them? Or maybe we should fund abortions for people who find out their babies have Downs syndrome. That would solve the problem, wouldn´t it?
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The details of a stimulus grant awarded to Indiana University to study condom use have now been released on a government website. The study, titled "Barriers to Correct Condom Use," is now completed, according to the website, and the university received $423,500 of stimulus funds to perform the study. The stimulus project yielded a total of 0.00 jobs created, according to the federal government. "No jobs created/retained," the form says under "Description of Jobs Created."
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SANFORD - Trayvon Martin´s parents have settled a wrongful death claim for an amount believed to be more than $1 million against the homeowners association of the Sanford subdivision where their teenage son was killed. Their attorney, Benjamin Crump, filed that paperwork at the Seminole County Courthouse, a portion of which was made public today. In the five pages of the settlement that were available for public review, the settlement amount had been marked out. Lower in the agreement, the parties specified that they would keep that amount confidential. When asked during an earlier interview whether the amount was
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Beyonce, Jay-Z celebrate 5th
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Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba this week. The couple, who married on April 4, 2008, took in the sights of Old Havana, visited a school, dined on a rooftop terrace and strolled the fan-filled streets in their island best.(snip).The power couple declined to answer journalists´ questions about their visit to the island nation, but some outlets are reporting that the moguls are there as tourists, though that would be illegal because of the half-century embargo the U.S. has on the Communist country. However, the Miami Herald said Washington has issued special licenses for
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Obama Budget to Cap Retirement
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Tony Lee
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/5/2013 9:40:39 PM
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The budget President Barack Obama will submit on April 10 will contain a proposal that would prohibit individuals from accumulating more than $3 million in Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and tax-preferred retirement accounts. According to a White House statement, the Obama administration believes the current rules allow some wealthy individuals "to accumulate many millions of dollars in these accounts, substantially more than is needed to fund reasonable levels of retirement saving." "The budget would limit an individual’s total balance across tax-preferred accounts to an amount sufficient to finance an annuity of not more than $205,000 per
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