No Longer a Children Donor

Found some hard numbers on 2008 Ukrainian adoptions. According to Yuri Pavlenko, the Ukrainians are having success at encouraging domestic adoptions over foreign adoptions. So far in 2008, for the first time, there have been more domestic than foreign adoptions.

	Domestic	Foreign	Total
1st half of 2007	821	893	1,714
1st half of 2008	1,010	642	1,652

The government also reports that 834 children have been placed into foster care so far in 2008.

2.5 thousand children adopted by new families
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