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 …
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 …
After adopting a young girl years ago, a couple from north-west China’s Urumqi city had to do the unimaginable when they discovered she was a child trafficking victim. They gave their adopted daughter back to her biological parents on February 2 after finding out they had been searching for her for a number of years, reports Huanqiu.com, an affiliation of …
Families in a poor mountainous region have had children seized, and apparently sold, in the name of China’s one-child policy By Shangguan Jiaoming, October 2011 (Shaoyang) – On a long journey in search of his lost child, Yang Libing carries a single photograph. It’s a faded snapshot of his daughter Yang Ling, who this year turns seven years old. Family …
In a country where many families are allowed only one child, the notion that one’s son or daughter could be abducted and sold feels almost impossibly horrible. And yet, as a new documentary makes clear, it happens in China with stunning frequency. “Most foreigners don’t know this is happening at all,” says Charlie Custer, a blogger who co-produced and directed …
