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Meet Me on the Bridge

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Filmed and directed by Changfu Chang. “My little girl was born in 1995, on July 24th, in the morning, in Suzhou. Because of poverty and other problems, we had no choice but to abandon our little girl on the street. If you have sympathy for us parents, please let us meet on the Broken Bridge in Hangzhou in 10 or …

Barbara Demick, LA TImes

A Stolen Twin Reunites with Her Family

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Los Angeles Times In 2002, a two-year-old girl was confiscated by Chinese officials because her family had violated the one-child policy. This past February, during Lunar New Year, she traveled from Texas, where she had been adopted, to meet her family and her twin sister.

Myka Stauffer rehomes inter-country adoptee from China

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Adoption Disruption, Abandonment, Trauma… As I’m sure many of you know I’m a strong-minded individual who values the voices of adoptees and to know that a YouTube Influencer and her hubby (Myka and James Stauffer) decided to showcase their lives so the world could witness their flashy dashy ways…I’m shaking my head hard. For all the Huxley’s of the world, …

Adoptive parents pass on unwanted children to strangers via internet

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“Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have been alerted by the media to the worrying trend of so-called online re-homing for adopted children. The term describes transactions between foster parents who want to get rid of kids they regret adopting, to strangers who can’t or won’t adopt through legal channels. Marina Portnaya investigates what turns out to be a thriving practice.” RT  Published …

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Adopted Chinese children search for biological parents in bid to understand past

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“I am 200 percent sure that she is my daughter… Now I’m calling all of my relatives,” a father from East China’s Jiangxi Province wrote on October 19 after spending 24 years searching for his second daughter, who was sent to a foster home and adopted in the US in 1993. The message was sent to Lan, a US resident …