Who Are the Experts?

In more in depth research of my topic, at this point I am leaning towards the problems and difficulties for adoptive parents associated with international adoption. There are many people who have a lot to say about international adoption with recent international happenings. These people also include adoptive parents who have first hand experience when it comes to dealing with the agencies and the emotional struggles that are involved.
The first source I have chosen to use is Interventions for Internationally Adopted Children and Families: A Review of the Literature written by Janet A. Welsh, Andres G. Viana, Stephen A. Petrill, and Matthew D. Mathias. This article comes from the Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal which publishes articles that deal with children and teenagers and their families. I believe this to be a source of quality because it focuses on all children and teenagers - not just adoptees. Therefore, they have credible information to compare their research and findings about adoptees to.
The second source I have chosen to use, Strengthen Supports for International Adoption, comes from Kathleen L. Whitten who is a visiting lecturer at Georgia State University and is the author of Labor of the Heart: A parent's Gide to Decisions and Emotions in Adoption." I believe this source to be credible because her information is trusted by a university and she has a published book focused on dealings with adoption.

Russian Children Living with a Loving Family? Absurd!

I have been somewhat shocked at the information I have learned after reading A Russian Orphanage Offers Love and Care, but Few Ways Out from the New York Times written by Clifford J. Levy. I know somebody who adopted their daughter from Russia over ten years ago, and although I was quite a bit younger then and not quite as in tune to the details I am now, I remember them talking about their adoption experience. They said that their daughter, who was under one when they adopted her, had always been kept in a crib. The adoption agency told them that she may never walk. Once they actually brought her home and gave her individualized attention, she started walking and fastly progressing.
So, although I had an idea that the orphanages in Russia were not the most ideal, I had no idea that, according to Boris L. Altshuler, chairmain of Right of the Child, an advocacy group in Moscow, that "the system wants these children to remain orphans." It is so sad to me that these children, who deserve loving families and individualized attention, are not able to obtain this valued experience because of, basically, the economy. The orphanges in Russia create jobs and income for people and therefore, the country. The orphanges may take good care of these young children, but they don't get to grow up there forever, only until they reach a certain age where they must move on to their next orphanage or foster home.
The responsibility, it seems, not only needs to be addressed of the government or system, but the people themselves. It is horrible to think that this all stems from, among others, poor family life involving drug and alcohol abuse. Can we, as people, not be responsible enough to even keep our own children?