OFFICIAL LID!!!!!

Great Wall notified us today that the CCAA has logged in our dossier on March 20! I wish it were sooner, but at least we have an official date. Let's hope that the timelines speed up!

NY Times Article

The New York Times published an artilce earlier this week about children who have been adopted from China. It's a very interesting article from the perspective of the adoptees. Each of the girls are going through the process of finding their identity, but each are happy they were adopted.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/23/national/23adopt.html

China Adoption Vindicated!!!

I received an email from Great Wall today with the following link:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1104AP_China_US_Baby_Trafficking.html

In a nutshell, the US government requested that the CCAA investigate any placements from Hengyang (Hunan) welfare home. They concluded that the children from those placments were orphaned or abandoned. So, it proves that the article in the Post did not effectively exhaust all of its resources before printing the article.

ARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!

Whatever Happened to Responsible Journalism?!

On Monday, I was told of an article that appeared in Sunday's Washington Post. The article was titled "Stealing Babies for Adoption: With U.S. Couples Eager to Adopt, Some Infants Are Abducted and Sold in China". The sensationalist title alone sheds a negative light on Chinese adoption, but that article was worse. The reporter made it seem that all babies in China are stolen. He misquoted reputable aid workers, adoptive parents, and agencies.

I was really disturbed when I read this. The process is extremely rigorous, and China is very thorough about placing their children. So much in fact, that the CCAA has suspended adoptions in the Hunan Provence, which is where the welfare home in the article is located. China really does a good job to ensure that the adoption process is legal and above board.

I guess there is no such thing as responsible journalism anymore!

Here is the link to the Post article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/11/AR2006031100942.html

Here is the link to Brian Stuy's letter to the editor:
http://research-china.blogspot.com/