Chinese Culture - Adoption of Chinese Babies
Mostly young baby girls are available for adoption – because of the one child policy in China. When I first learned that North Americans were adopting Chinese babies – I thought that was so wonderful, and that these babies would be offered a much better life in America – as opposed to a life in an orphanage in China. Later, I learned that the Chinese government was charging $20,000 USD to adopt a baby –and I was appalled – thinking that the North Americans were doing such a big favour for these babies, why did the Chinese government feel they needed to make a profit off the sale of the children? Then I learned that the $20,000USD fee was to discourage adopters from other countries who had been taking the babies and selling them into slavery or using them for body parts or work camps. Then it all made sense.