A Great Adoption Story

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What makes a civilization throw away children?

I just read this from Dr. Mohler's blog:

Here is evidence of cultural disaster: Russians, whose lives are shorter and poorer than they were under communism, have more abortions than births to avoid the costs of raising children, Bloomberg.com reported Tuesday quoting the country's highest-ranking obstetrician. About 1.6 million women had an abortion last year, a fifth of them under the age of 18, and about 1.5 million gave birth, said Vladimir Kulakov, vice president of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. "Many more" abortions weren't reported. [See Moscow News]

In 1991, the International Herald Tribune reported: "An entrenched 'abortion culture' in Russia and Eastern Europe has outlived the collapse of communism by more than a decade." More from the article: The most startling statistics come from Russia, where abortion is used more than anywhere else in Europe -- measured both in absolute terms and per capita. According to the World Health Organization, Russian women in 1990 registered 1,971 abortions for every 1,000 live births -- or roughly two abortions for every childbirth. A decade later, the ratio stubbornly remains at 1,696 abortions per 1,000 births.

And it reminded me of this from Dr. Moore:

Russia'’s orphans & the Father of the fatherless
By Russell D. Moore Aug 22, 2005

Somewhere in the Kremlin right now, officials are weighing whether to cut off the adoption of Russian children to Americans and other foreigners. As I type this, two former Russian orphans, my sons Benjamin and Timothy, are running around my chair singing songs.

The Russian orphanage where my wife and I found our sons, then Maxim and Sergei, was the most horrifying place I have ever been. Its sights and smells and sounds come back to me every day. But, even more so, before my mind's eye every day are the faces of the children we couldn't adopt. Until now, my hope has been that Christians from America, Canada, Germany, France or somewhere may have adopted them, to raise them in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. If the anti-adoption Russians get their way, I fear that these children will be sentenced to institutions, never to find families. read the full article here

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What makes a civilization throw away children?


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