Archive for April 9th, 2010

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consumer culture: don’t like your adopted kid? send him to russia

Russia’s foreign minister is calling for a freeze on child adoptions involving the United States after a Tennessee woman who adopted an eight-year-old boy helped put him on a flight back to Russia by himself, with a note saying she didn’t want to take care of him anymore.

You return your impulse buys to Wal-Mart when your credit runs dry, return your puppy to the pound if you decide you’d rather not deal with it… Why not imported children?

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