5 Stories from Europe You May Have Missed

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5. Russians have a very strange approach to children and childhood.

When I was in college I was in a seminar with a woman who had lived in Moscow while setting up adoption channels fro Russian children to come to the US for adoption, a legit program. She said that children were normally consigned to communal living institutions where doctors and medical staff raised them while their parents lived in apartments and worked. Thes kids only saw their parents if they came to visit. All the clothing came from a closet that everyone used, They had nothing of their own, not toys or personal items. The facilities were sparce, including appliances for laundry and kitchens, etc.. This was in the 1990s. She gave us a presentation of her work and the photos of the places she visited were stunning in how stark everything looked.

The thought of the vast network of human trafficking hadn't really occurred to me until shortly afterward when discussing the topic relative to the Balkan war of them time with my friend from along the Aegean Sea. I have been suspicious of many organizations who move children about the planet. Slavery is evil whether it's within a family or trafficked humans from elsewhere.