Search for birth parents leaves many frustrated
(NEWSER) - For the US adoptive families who return to China in search of their children's birth parents, their travels often, and frustratingly, wind their way to dead ends. Adoptions in China remain defiantly closed and shrouded in mystery—the country prohibits the abandoning of children, so most babies are abandoned anonymously, the LA Times reports. One professor who has made several documentaries about such adoptions can cite only about 20 cases in which the adoptive families found their children's birth relatives; more than 60,000 Chinese babies have been adopted by Americans in the last two decades. More»
