From The BBC - July 2, 2009Dozens of baby girls in southern C**na have reportedly been taken from parents who broke family-planning laws, and then sold for adoption overseas.
An investigation by the state-owned Southern Metropolis News found that about 80 girls in one county had been sold for $3,000 (£1,800).
The babies were taken when the parents could not pay the steep fines imposed for having too many children.
Local officials may have forged papers to complete the deals, the report said.
Unpopular policy
Parents in rural areas are allowed two children, unlike urban dwellers who are allowed one.
But if they have more than that, they face a fine of about $3,000 -several times many farmers' annual income.
The policy is deeply unpopular among rural residents, says the BBC's Quentin Somerville in Beijing.
Nearly 80 baby girls in a county in Guizhou province, in the south of the country, were confiscated from their families when their parents could not or would not pay the fine, Southern Metropolis News said.
The girls were taken into orphanages and then adopted by couples from the United States and a number of European countries.
The adoption fee was split between the orphanages and local officials, the newspaper said.
Child trafficking is widespread. A tightening of adoption rules for foreigners in 2006 has proved ineffective in the face of local corruption.
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Yes, child trafficking for adoption is sadly, very widespread. For more about all international issues see:
http://tinyurl.com/adoptionresouces
Also see: http://tinuurl.com/whyguat
The title of your blog, while I guess expresses YOUR feelings, is an offense to the mothers whose children are taken, stolen, or coerced from them into adoption. They are mothers in grief and mourning.
The title of your blog defies all reality and keeps adoption in a neverland of fantasy that a child who comes to you via the legal process of process is "as if born you." This is unhealthy for all the parties to adoption.
"The traditional blood-kin family is composed of one mother, one father, and their child or children. The adoptive family is composed of two mothers, two fathers and a child common to them. Although society, and to some extent adoptive parents, would like to pretend that it is exactly like a traditional family, it is the differences that are extremely significant in each member's life." Dr. Herbert Wieder, a psychiatrist who has been studying the adoption triangle for over twenty years testimony at Public Hearing before Assembly Institutions, Health & Welfare on Assembly Bill No. 2051 (Adoption), 9 December, 1981, Trenton, NJ. As quoted in "shedding light on...The Dark Side of Adoption" (1988) p. 109.
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To AdoptAuthor:
While I agree that illegal traffic of children is obsene, I feel a line must be drawn somewhere. First, the title of the blog has nothing to do with a neverland fantasy. It merely suggest the multitude of emotions and trouble that go into adopting a child. Now to suggest that Adoptive parents could never love an adopted child as much or receive as much love from said child as a biological family is just absurd. It would be easy to formulate a single minded hypothesis in either direction by studying only adoptive families that show problems. Last I looked Biological families have the same tendancies. I have personally met Don, Be, and Joanna Mei and I must say the love I see between them is much more real then the love that I see between biological families. You talk about offensive titles, but you are the offensive one here Don posted the article on the forced child adoptions because he sympathises with the mothers of the taken.
In his blog, he is excited as any new parent (biological or otherwise), but are you happy for him and his new family? No, you simply call out all of the things that you see offensive without thinking of any possible joy or meaning. Perhaps you should reconsider your values as they seem a bit diametricly opposed to each other. Be happy for Don and Be and let us pray that the Love I have witnessed between them and JMei lasts eternity.
Jason Bledsoe
As an adoptive mom who has never experienced pregnancy.I fully support your blog! You constantly remind me how blessed I am.
I am thankful for the article you shared with us as well!!!!
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