Russia’s International Adoption Policies: Realities of the Soviet Happy Childhood Myth
Journal: Digital Commons - IWU (Illinois Wesleyan University)
Year: 2012

Russia’s International Adoption Policies: Realities of the Soviet Happy Childhood Myth, focuses on dispelling the Soviet myth of happy childhood through revealing the numerous groups of children who were systematically left out of this upbringing. The paper focuses in particular on the plight of orphans in the USSR and continues to follow their childhood experience through investigating the intercountry adoption policies between the U.S. and Russia. My research aims to dispel the laws and regula