Two Indian sisters 'gang-raped', killed and hanged from a tree

[LibertyLover]

38. China has sharply curtailed its foreign adoptions

I was very fortunate and was able to adopt my daughter from China 10 years ago. It only took 10 months from the date our dossier was forwarded to the Chinese authorities until the date we received our notification that a child had been assigned to us. But about 3 or 4 years later the country revised its adoption laws and the qualifications required to adopt. Even if we had had the money to do so, my husband and I would no longer have qualified. Now, I understand that it takes as long as 3 years from the time the dossier is submitted until assignment of a child. China realized was the imbalence in genders was a problem and moved to remedy it. Along with stopping the one child policy, there has been a very active campaign to raise the value of girls in society, as well as trying to develop an adoption culture in China so as to keep the abandoned girls, and many are still abandoned unfortunately, within the country. As much as I love my child and am thankful to her birth mother for abandoning her rather than killing her and the Chinese authorities for giving her to me, I am glad to see the changes.