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to be brought up in a healthy family. Life in a family is better than in an orphanage on all counts. But living in a family of sadists or being sent back to an orphanage after you have become accustomed to living in a family is much worse.The Russian and the American delegations seem to agree on that issue. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs Michael Kirby, head of the US delegation, said: "We agree we want to do the best for the children."
But the question is how to help adoptive families become real families.
The main opponents of international adoption say that Russian children must be adopted by Russian families. That is a good principle, but there are very many children in Russia who are either orphans or who do not live with their biological parents, which is one major argument in favor of international adoption.
Yelena Mizulina, chair of the parliamentary committee on the family, women and children, said there are 697,000
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