WND
The Chinese government has abruptly ended its international adoption program, ceasing all in-process and future international adoptions without citing a reason. The announcement comes as the country faces an overall population decline it is attempting to reverse after decades of coercive population control, sex-selective abortion, and forced abortion. In 2023, the number of newborns in China fell to 9.02 million.
During a briefing on Thursday, Mao Ning, a spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry, said Beijing will no longer allow international adoptions of children from China unless the child is being adopted into biologically related families or step-families. “We express our appreciation to those foreign governments and families, who wish to adopt Chinese children, for their good intention and the love and kindness they have shown,” she said. All pending adoptions have been canceled as a result of the decision, except for those that had already been issued travel authorizations. more
That “central planning” crap is bearing fruit,innit.
Organ shortage.
…”without citing a reason.”
Inscrutable as portrayed by the old stereotypes. Sometimes the racial stereotypes are real.
China is asshoe!
I likka lil yellah sumtimes, but mosly I sniffem white, so im ok widdit.
They already have a large enough invasion force in the US thanks to Biden/Harris/Mayorkas treason.
82-83 thousand adoptions from ’99 – ’23 is a surprisingly small number of children adopted by US parents. Reports today show that about 160K children are living in China’s orphanages. I’m sad to think that these children will never have the opportunity of a forever family. I don’t understand why China won’t simply close their orphanage doors or re-think how they are going to care for orphaned children, and allow those children currently in their orphanages to be adopted, before they shut down international adoptions. Just let their “inventory” run out first. It would be far more humane.
I’m very, very sad for all the families who are in the process of adopting children from China. As the parent of a beautiful (inside and out) child “Made in China”, I know how anguishing this news is for them. Many of them will have received referral information about the child they were adopting, including health reports, pictures, and whatever personal information was left with baby when he or, more likely, she was abandoned. Losing that child because of China’s decision will be as hard as losing a child through death. Most will not understand this loss, making it a very lonely grief indeed. God bless the fortunate few who have their travel authority letters — Red Letters — in hand.
As I understand it, the majority of children in Chinese orphanages tended to be little girls dumped by their parents, who wanted boys instead. These were the lucky ones, in a way, as they at least they had a chance to be adopted rather than aborted. However, China also has a terrible male-to-female ratio, with many Chinese men facing the prospect of never getting married due to a lack of partners. Ending foreign adoption will at least keep these girls in China, presumably to grow up to meet this demand for Chinese brides.
There are at least a few very good documentaries (but you have to dig for them) chronicling China’s One Child policies. As a communist country, the iron fist of the central party is felt down to each and every household — including so-called “planned parenting”. Women’s menstrual cycles were (are still?) recorded and known to the local ministry. And, as China has no equivalent of the U.S.’s Social Security, male children are expected to fill the role of provider for aging parents who no longer work and earn a living for themselves. Coupled with their cultural bias for sons, girl babies were expendable under a One Child policy. Though heart-wrenching for a vast majority of Chinese parents, these were the hard, practical facts of Chinese society.
I haven’t kept up over the past fifteen or so years about changes to these policies, but going by the numbers of children currently in orphanages, it doesn’t seem that anything has really changed, although I do recall that China has loosened its strict One Child law. What I find odd is that news out of China regarding its failing economy, they would change their law regarding international adoption. One reason may be — just speculating here — related to military strength. If men are unable to marry and start new generations of children for their military, that would make a strong reason to abruptly cease exporting their girls. But who really knows? The Chinese have never felt it necessary to explain their decisions.
Their stupid One Child policy caused a population collapse. Now, they need all the throwaway bodies they can get.