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HennyPenny ago

There must be a good reason why Romania in 2005 and then Russia in 2013 put the brakes on intercountry adoptions particularly to the US. In Russia in 2009 there were 1586 children adopted by US citizens and in 2015, none. Romania now requires that the adopting US citizen be of Romanian descent and same sex parents can not jointly adopt. In the 1990s untold thousands of Romanian children were placed abroad with no detailed record keeping. Look at this article about US pedophiles in Romania at that time: "American Kurt Treptow was also jailed in Iasi for the same reason. His case was made worse by the fact that the US ambassador to Romania at the time Michael Guest who had already caused deep disgust to Romanians when appointed as brought his male lover to live with him in Bucharest plied thankfully without success for Treptow’s release from jail in Iasi.http://poundpuplegacy.org/node/41930, http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/35929: Kurt Treptow, a Rhodes scholar like Rhodes scholar wannabe Bill Clinton.