Absent the option of adopting Russian children, China will likely become the main source of foreign adoptions for American would-be parents -- until China's rules change. Foreign adoption policy is a complex field (the sum of as many bilateral relations as there are birth countries) but the last few years have seen a clear pattern, one only exacerbated by Moscow's nyet: the global number of international adoptions has plummeted. Russia's example is the most extreme example of the growing trend of source countries restricting the outflow of children adopted by foreigners, in what one might call "genetic nationalism."
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