You know things are bad when the Russians are warning the US, of all people, not to go toward socialism out of fear over the economy. That is crazy. I'm not old, but I do remember having a Russian pen pal in fourth grade, and we were told that some of our letters would probably be crossed out with black pen and sensored, so if some of our questions weren't answered, that was why. I remember sending them pencils because they didn't have pencils with erasers and that kind of pencil was a real treasure.
I remember it was just before my dad's birthday when the Soviet Union began to fall apart. It was funny, because my mom had bought my dad a biography, and I think it was the biography of Mikhail Gorbachev. And here was the end of the Soviet Union, all of a sudden, after real fears of nuclear war and bunkers and things, that was it! And suddenly at the Olympics, they managed to keep their superstar program together for one more go, and after that, it was athletes from all these "new" nations, like Georgia, and all the "stans". And history was forever changed.
Things were hard and remain hard for Russia and friends. Very hard. There are four times as many abortions there as there are here in the US. Children adopted from orphanages there often have RAD (Reactive Attachment Disorder) and are difficult to help or live with, no matter how much one wants to help and provide a normal life. They are not. having. fun.
The fact that Putin is warning us away from a system that didn't work is noteworthy. I'm glad it was in the Wall Street Journal, but it should have honestly been front page news!
In any case, read it and weep. I can't believe Putin is possibly smarter than most of our US government officials.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123317069332125243.html
Thursday, February 19, 2009
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When you said Russia had four times as many abortions as the US, at first I thought you meant rate. Then I "realized" you must mean total abortions, because 4 times the rate in the US would mean more abortions than live births, so apparently Russia has a bigger population than the US . . . but that didn't seem right either.
ReplyDeleteSo I visited the article, and let my jaw drop. 13 abortions per 10 births? That's insane! People in the US who are pro-choice are generally agog to learn that 1/7th of all pregnancies end in abortion. This situation in Russia should be very scary to them especially. This could be the US.
I wonder how many of these Russian women believe they had a choice?
Oh, and "MotherBear" is Ethele. I changed my alias for my new blog :-)
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