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Since the late 1980s, as many as 7,000 Chinese-born girls (and a few boys!) have been adopted annually and now live in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Europe. They are officially orphans, victims of a rigorous birth control policy limiting most families to one child.
Due to the generally younger ages of Chinese adoptees, adoptive parents have taken an unprecedentedly proactive role in this process. This article relies on in-depth interviews with adopted children and adoptive parents from seven Western families who reunited with Chinese birth parents.
With China’s Hidden Children, Johnson reveals the complex web of love, secrecy, and pain woven in the coerced decision to give one’s child up for adoption and the profound negative impact China’s birth-planning campaigns have on Chinese families.
In examining the history of Chinese adoption, two aspects of adoption must be considered: black letter law and custom. The strength of each, and the dynamic between them, creates the differences between the role of adoption in imperial China and its role in the modem People's Republic of China.
23 Οκτ 2023 · After years of a paused China adoption process due to COVID-19 shutdowns, Amanda and Justin Mohr were one of the first Holt families to travel to China to complete their adoption in August 2023 — finally uniting with their daughter, Paige.
6 Αυγ 2018 · Using qualitative data provided by a social worker, eleven girls aged between five and twelve, and their parents, this article explores the role and changing significance of narratives as familial...
From the early stages of the adoption process to bringing the child back home, this collection of personal stories reveals why parents who have adopted children from China feel - despite the challenge
