Moscow Children's Home #19
![Many of the residents at Children's Home #19 are the sons and daughters of migrant workers.](https://gdb.rferl.org/641bff15-20ba-4374-9288-3f24cfacfc95_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Many of the residents at Children's Home #19 are the sons and daughters of migrant workers.
![Leon, who is five, is the son of an African mother and a Russian father.](https://gdb.rferl.org/fd8ac25e-ecc0-42eb-8f77-9e26d9639171_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Leon, who is five, is the son of an African mother and a Russian father.
![Children of mixed ethnic backgrounds are harder to place with adoptive families, according to the home's director.](https://gdb.rferl.org/376a18e5-17e4-4f9c-99ba-efcd8b84731f_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Children of mixed ethnic backgrounds are harder to place with adoptive families, according to the home's director.
![Some of the children were abandoned when one or both parents returned to their country of origin.](https://gdb.rferl.org/95298999-b604-44fe-af2d-d19709429434_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Some of the children were abandoned when one or both parents returned to their country of origin.
![11-year-old Misha was taken into care after his father, an Azeri, was convicted of a crime and deported from Russia.](https://gdb.rferl.org/7225d06b-8a8d-4bcf-8d18-1d99f6aa2601_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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11-year-old Misha was taken into care after his father, an Azeri, was convicted of a crime and deported from Russia.
![Children pray before dinner.](https://gdb.rferl.org/547523eb-150b-44f2-b38c-6511baf81759_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Children pray before dinner.
![Akram, 16, is planning to record a rap album. He says he's proud to be from the children's home.](https://gdb.rferl.org/650139fe-9303-46a9-90ca-1fa5ab9796df_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Akram, 16, is planning to record a rap album. He says he's proud to be from the children's home.
![The home has placed 350 children in foster care or adoptive families in the past 15 years.](https://gdb.rferl.org/d751c4e1-a22e-4291-96a4-fe083ad022b2_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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The home has placed 350 children in foster care or adoptive families in the past 15 years.
![But a new law has abolished Russia's foster system, meaning the children can only wait for adoptive parents.](https://gdb.rferl.org/a62dde67-c4a7-460d-8739-75bd6ad4de0f_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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But a new law has abolished Russia's foster system, meaning the children can only wait for adoptive parents.