Rbachman

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Feedback on proposal

I am happy you are choosing Russia to work on. I am currently working on an article on Russian youth, and I have lots of sources I could point you to once you get to a key set of ideas.

I feel the orphanage topic is a bit outside of the youth studies field, but there is a great deal available for you to work with. If you are interested in youth and adoption, you could also pursue the question of youth transitioning out of state programs for orphans and "foster kids."

I would recommend that you look at the Global Issues in Context database at the library online to see what you can find out. There is a great deal written about youth political involvement, alcoholism, education, the emergent middle class, and migration. I'm sure there are other topics as well. I look forward to seeing how this develops!Prof.Vandegrift (talk) 21:21, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

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Interesting Topic

Hi Rachel! I think your topic is very interesting. I do not know if you already have Wikipedia articles in mind to edit, but I quickly searched for information on Russian orphanages (mainly because I am unfamiliar with the topic, but here is an article that says it needs additional citations and is outdated: Moscow Orphanage. --MKassmeier (talk) 23:43, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

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Hi Rachel. Welcome to Wikipedia! I'm an online ambassador for your Global Youth Studies course at Drake. If you have any questions, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, chat with us on IRC, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question.

Thank you for introducing yourself on my talk page. I think your interest in Russian orphanages was timely in light of the recent Dima Yakovlev Law. Wikipedia has very few articles that address Russian youth. An article on children and adolescents in Russia or the like would be welcome. Alternatively, while the foster care article is fairly developed, the deinstitutionalisation (orphanages and children's institutions) article could use expanding. Gobōnobō ^{+ c} 19:28, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Russian orphans

Hi Rachel. On your topic declaration, you mentioned how the Orphans in the Soviet Union article goes up to 1991 and that you wanted to continue after that looking specifically at Russian orphans. Were you planning on creating a new article for Russian orphans? There is a similarly-titled article at Romanian orphans. Gobōnobō ^{+ c} 19:26, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

Feedback

Rachel,

I cannot say how excited I was for you when you said you were researching this topic in class yesterday! Okay, I'M SUPER EXCITED. I have a few friends who have had trouble with the adoption system in Russia-- mostly because their children ended having undocumented mental disabilities and illnesses, especially older children. I'm not sure how much you already know about this topic, but I read a fantastic piece in Time Magazine a few years back about it that I would recommend. Here it is!

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Best of luck

AbbeyMaynard (talk) 21:30, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

Classmate Feedback

Hi Rachel! I think your topic of Russian adoption is very interesting. This has been a highly publicized area in the past few years. I remember a particular case where a woman sent her adopted child back to Russia because he was misbehaving, although now I can't find a link to the article. It might be interesting to address how they acclimate to American society differently depending on when they move here. Do you plan to look at mostly babies being adopted or will you look specifically at teenagers? Good luck with your research this semester! - Laura
Plumbla (talk) 22:20, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

Feedback on 3.27 sources

Hi Rbachman! I looked at your source bibliography. They all look promising to find the statistics you hope to include. Start thinking about what statistics exist in these articles and how you can present them in a notable, neutral fashion. I encourage you to keep looking for articles, as well as ties to larger questions about youth transitioning out of institutional and foster care as linked to Russia. The time has come to choose an article to edit. What are you thinking of choosing?Prof.Vandegrift (talk) 21:07, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

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I've moved the draft to User:Rbachman/Orphans in Russia, where you can continue to work on it. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 03:58, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

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