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China’s Pink Pagoda child rescue organization and founder Jim Garrow draw criticism
From the Guelph Mercury: For the past 10 years, Garrow has run an organization he calls Pink Pagoda. He says he works with 142 people in China to rescue baby girls whose parents might otherwise abandon or kill them. When his team hears about unwanted babies, they collect them from their parents and deliver them [...]
Chinese adoptee finds birthparents
From the Beijing Review: As an adopted child, Haley had always wondered about her past and her biological family and who had brought her into this world. Haley’s American parents have been supportive in her wishes of finding her biological parents and those thoughts soon turned into action. She returned to China for a 15th [...]
Chinese woman adopts more than 80 children with special needs
From China Daily: Rao Meixiang, a countrywoman in Yincheng town of Dexing, East China’s Jiangxi province, has adopted more than 80 abandoned babies with serious disabilities from local civil affairs department in the past 15 years. They live on limited government allowance, farming and collecting scrap. Access the full article here.
China: Adoption laws to change after death of Chinese adoptee in Tennessee
From WSMV-TV: The case of a Mount Juliet couple accused of abusing and killing their adopted child is now sparking an international response. China, the country where Deborah and Steven Mark adopted their child from, may now change the way children can come to this country. It’s the second time in a matter of months [...]
China: DNA technology reunites families with kidnapped children
From Change.org: This week, the Chinese government announced that DNA technology has been used to reunite 730 families, many of whom lost children to child trafficking. They are hopeful that DNA can be one way to curb the significant child trafficking industry in the country, and so far, it seems to be working. The baby [...]
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