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What Will Really Happen to Adoption in China, Post-Quake?

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The Chinese government says it is drafting plans for adoptions of quake orphans, and phones at local Civil Affairs Bureaus are ringing off the hook. One Western newspaper even estimated that there are more Chinese calling about adopting than there are orphans. It remains to be seen what will happen. Do Chinese parents calling about adoption today still see it as offering to foster children, or do they truly understand adoption as making a child a permanent part of your family tree? Perhaps they do. Perhaps the restrictions on bearing children have left more people wanting to love more children … Continue reading →

Responses to the Closing of Countries to Outside Adoption

In a perfect world, parents would be able—emotionally, socially, economically, and in every other way—to raise their children. However, would-be adoptive parents of today should realize that, while steps toward this ideal are being taken, the world is unlikely to run out of need anytime soon. Perhaps the closing of easier and better-known avenues to adoption will spur reforms to make adoption from state foster care systems in the U.S. easier. Perhaps it will spur development of programs to assist people who adopt sibling groups, older children, and children who have suffered abuse. Perhaps it will encourage the adoption of … Continue reading →