Russia is showing a way how orphans should be taken care of! State Orphanage system provides safe environment for children. It is easy to monitor and check. Besides basic care Russian orphanages provide excellent secondary education and allow children to develop their hobbies. I have personally visited a few of Russian orphanages and was very impressed. In what countries in the West have you seen music lessons at schools, without speaking about artistic curriculum in orphanages? In the USA the government has cut down all artistic subjects from school curriculum and hardly provides edequate secondary education in public schools where about 70% of high school children use drugs (speak from personal experience of living in the USA for 21 years and for this reason homeschooling our children for 7 years), over 45% high school children in the USA never finish schools. Where do they go? - To the streets to join crime and drugs. I THINK IT IS HIGH TIME FOR THE UNISEF TO COME TO THE USA TO MONITOR CHILDREN'S EDUCATION AT SCHOOLS and ALMOST TOTAL DRUG ADICTION among the youth. Multitudes of school children in the USA have no purpose in life and any idea about healthy spiritual environment, since American spiritually sick society, hooked on consumption-having FUN-waging wars for profit, killing and destroying other countries, does not allow American children to see the light in the tunnel. The insinuation of the atmosphere of fear in the US makes children passive or FUN loving. I personally know a Russian woman who was raised in a Russian orphanage after WWII. The orphanage provided her with excellent education, care, spiritual comfort. It allowed her to develop relations with teachers and children. She has been a successful professional and now a mother and grandmother.

Russia had a great foundation for successfully running state orphanages. Russia has one of the best public schools and higher education in the world (I speak from my personal experience from living in Russian and having our both children in a Russian high school now). Foster care system in the USA, when children are placed with different families through their childhood, proved to be disastrous for children: orphans have been sexually and physically abused. Frequent changing families does not allow disadvantaged children to develop a sense of family and a sense of what care and love are. Russia had one great feature which allows this great country to go forward, may they be small steps, but forward. This feature is the ability to sarcastically look at their own mistakes and disadvantages, criticize themselves and try to become better. Try to find any Russian who is self content - an impossible task. Though the most Americans or Westeners I've met wear their selfcontet on their sleeves. I believe that Russia shows the West not only the way with running orphanages, but shows the way in every in every aspect of life.