{"id":380100,"date":"2018-10-08T05:43:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T04:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/putin-adores-huge-traditional-families\/"},"modified":"2018-10-08T05:43:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T04:43:22","slug":"putin-adores-huge-traditional-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/putin-adores-huge-traditional-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin Adores Huge, Traditional Families"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Putin loves taking photos with big loud families. Maybe because,\u00a0in his eyes, they are the main heralds of Russia he envisions: a\u00a0flourishing, colorful\u00a0country built upon traditional family values.<\/p>\n

Parents who raise seven or more children\u00a0(biological or adopted) qualify for an illustrious Order of Parental, which includes a dinner and meeting with the president himself.<\/p>\n

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At this year\u2019s ceremony, Putin made clear that he understands and appreciates the incredible sacrifice and work\u00a0involved in creating large, happy families. He stated:
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\u201cYou have chosen (I am speaking to the parents first of all) a happy, noble, but also a very difficult path of great responsibility and worry that demands all of your efforts, patience and strength.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Wired<\/em>\u00a0ran\u00a0an article<\/a>\u00a0featuring the photos the Russian president with the winners of the Order of Parental glory, portraying the whole thing in mocking and negative tones. \u201cMenacing Russian children\u201d and \u201cFlat, stiff, staring, vaguely hangry\u201d are just some of the flattering\u00a0expressions\u00a0used to describe the people portrayed in the photos.<\/p>\n

But let\u00a0Western media\u00a0label these photos as \u201ccreepy\u201d as they wish; we find Putin\u2019s personal interest in traditional families\u2013and the families themselves\u2013downright charming. So here they are:<\/p>\n

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Raising birthrates and making Russia family friendly has certainly been on Putin\u2019s top priorities list. Not only is the country facing severe demographic decline, but the anti-family policies of the Soviet Union (such as legalization of abortion),\u00a0as well as the onslaught of Western propaganda\u00a0in the 1990s, have taken a dramatic toll on Russia\u2019s traditional, conservative family order.<\/p>\n

In an attempt to\u00a0reverse the…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Putin loves taking photos with big loud families. Maybe because,\u00a0in his eyes, they are the main heralds of Russia he envisions: a\u00a0flourishing, colorful\u00a0country built upon traditional family values. Parents who raise seven or more children\u00a0(biological or adopted) qualify for an illustrious Order of Parental, which includes a dinner and meeting with the president himself. At […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-380100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}