Holt’s Positive and Negative Adoption Language
Positive Negative Adoption triad Adoption triangle Biological parent Natural / real parent Birth child …
Chinese Officials Seized and Sold Babies, Parents Say
LONGHUI COUNTY, China — Many parents and grandparents in this mountainous region of terraced rice and sweet potato fields have long known to grab their babies and find the nearest hiding place whenever family planning officials show up. Too many infants, they say, have been snatched by officials, never to be seen again. But Yuan Xinquan was caught by surprise …
China’s Adoption Scandal Sends Chills Through Families in U.S.
By JOHN LELAND IN almost any adoption, the new parents accept that their good fortune arises out of the hardship of the child’s first parents. The equation is usually tempered by the thought that the birth parents either are no longer alive or chose to give the child a better life than they could provide. On Aug. 5, this newspaper published a …






