Ex-German Chancellor Schroeder, Wife Adopt Russian Boy
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Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and his wife Doris have adopted yet another Russian kid, a popular German daily reported Thursday. Two years after the Schroeders adopted a little girl, Viktoria, then 3, from a Russian orphanage, they decided she needed a little brother and brought another little Russian into their family, BILD reports.
Born like Viktoria in St. Petersburg, the baby has not even turned 12 months yet. Doris and Gerhard Schroeder already have a daughter, Klara, who is 15. Viktoria, lovingly called Dascha in the family, is already 5 years of age. The Schroeders keep a cat called Schnurri and a dog named Holly.
Doris Schroeder-Koepf takes keen interest in the fate of poor children. Since September 2003 she’s been a supporter of the joint German-Russian children’s charity group, operating in St. Petersburg. She also assists a children’s hospital in Tirana, Albania.
Some 870,000 Russian children live in orphanages. Most of them are so-called “social orphans” whose parents have been stripped of parental rights, either over ill treatment of their children or alcoholism. Many of those children spend their entire childhood in orphanages and take to drinking and drugs themselves or become criminals.
Gerhard Schroeder, international adoptions
Charity News Online
Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and his wife Doris have adopted yet another Russian kid, a popular German daily reported Thursday. Two years after the Schroeders adopted a little girl, Viktoria, then 3, from a Russian orphanage, they decided she needed a little brother and brought another little Russian into their family, BILD reports.
Born like Viktoria in St. Petersburg, the baby has not even turned 12 months yet. Doris and Gerhard Schroeder already have a daughter, Klara, who is 15. Viktoria, lovingly called Dascha in the family, is already 5 years of age. The Schroeders keep a cat called Schnurri and a dog named Holly.
Doris Schroeder-Koepf takes keen interest in the fate of poor children. Since September 2003 she’s been a supporter of the joint German-Russian children’s charity group, operating in St. Petersburg. She also assists a children’s hospital in Tirana, Albania.
Some 870,000 Russian children live in orphanages. Most of them are so-called “social orphans” whose parents have been stripped of parental rights, either over ill treatment of their children or alcoholism. Many of those children spend their entire childhood in orphanages and take to drinking and drugs themselves or become criminals.
Gerhard Schroeder, international adoptions
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