Here is an interesting article from the Baltimore Sun about a Chinese adoptee who located his birthparents.
I would hazard a guess that there will be more and more stories like this in the future.
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We found and met our daughter’s birth family in July. There are several of us who have found first families in China. I think you mentioned awhile back you were searching, good luck!
How can someone find their child’s first family in China? I thought it was near impossible to find them?
Nearly impossible is not the same thing as impossible. There are a number of birth families who have been located in China. There have been several notable news stories about located Chinese birth families in the past year or two.
Most successful searches do not receive news attention, but it is not nearly as uncommon as you might think. Most adoptive families do not search, so they do not find birth families. Among those who search, some birth families have been located. As Chinese adoptees reach adulthood, I am sure many of them will search, some of whom will be successful.
The world is getting smaller and smaller. You never know who you might bump into.
A very interesting story, thanks for the link!
oops, I mean June! We returned in July. Time has flown by.
a beautiful story. thanks.
Lorie- also Christian had a bit of a leg up in that he was adoped as at an older age so he could remember the names of his birth family and that helped the searches narrow things down a lot.
What a wonderful story.
Hey, AmFam
I’ve been reading this story and its follow-up today when he finally met his family in China. And things just don’t make sense to me. And I’m fully aware that this could entirely be because I know absolutely nothing about life in China and culture, adoption norms, etc.
But it seems like he was passed around a lot (a result of the one child rule, I suspect) and then I heard the uncle and him got on a bus and the uncle stopped into a store and came out and the bus was gone. Then I read where the boy was put on a bus by himself and was lost. Then the uncle was really the father. Or not. And that after he was lost on the bus, he spent possibly a year in the streets several hundred miles from where he started and has no memory of that until he was picked up by an orphanage?
Can you shed some light? I mean, is it THAT EASY to lose a child in China and have no one bother to help him? (The bus driver/company that might have found him alone?) And is all this the father is the uncle is the father a step to help protect the true parents from consequences of the one-child rule (which are what? imprisonment? a fine? something worse?).
Again, I understand that my not making sense of this has way more to do with me and my understanding than any kind of implication that someone is not telling the truth. And it is great that he has found these connections. I’m just trying to get it to jive in my head and it doesn’t. Thought maybe you could shed some light.