My youngest cats are 2.5 years old, and they still go beserk when it's time to eat.

Hello from Italy, Zoe! This is the first time, honestly, I came across your TY channel. I love your orange cat 😍 Your video is helping me a lot in improving my English! Thank you for sharing it 😘

I was so glad to see your cat 🤩

wishing you a wonderful holiday season with your family n friends.

Happy Holidays ⛄

❤ Not an adoptee, but this information is great too keep in mind when acknowledging birthdays. Looking forward to your holiday vlogs. ❄️⛄

Most of my friends are afraid of what could potentially happen. They were born here, but are unsure about their families 'legal' citizenship. I pray for a peaceful outcome.

Being adopted shouldn't mean losing your identity. 😢

Sending healing prayers for your sister. ❤ ✨ It would be more informative if your sister discussed her feelings about her diagnosis, if she's willing. Cancer, I believe, is a man-made disease, and not always genetic, but that's my opinion.

I will keep your sister in my prayers! I am also adopted so I have loved listening to your videos!

I'm so sorry to hear that. I definitely understand how it feels when a family has cancer. I hope everything works out and that you have a blessed day and weekend. 🙏🏾

Of all professions one would expect to do better with genograms would be social workers! Not just how to 'connect' adoptees with adoptive parents, but also not dis-connecting them from birth family!

Miss you so much~~~

😼 real ones know what’s up

little kitty is cute n sweet looking . Congrats for adopting her. How did you find her?

haha happens evrytime to many newbies.

How would u feel if u were offered complimentary citizenship?

love your videos ! keep it up :)

I love the backpack zipper sounds

The only reason why China ended international adoption is that they feel ashamed, the adopted children in other country have such bright life, make so much achievements, far more than they do in China.

I'm fairly certain that China's decision to stop international adoption is mostly driven by economics. China's population control with the one child policy was too successful in reducing China's population size. The policy was too simplistic and short sighted. China now stands to lose a very large number of their work force due to age and they don't have nearly enough people to replace retirees. China also doesn't have a way to increase their working population in the short term via immigration. Retaining adoptees within China helps keep the young working people within their own population.

I recognize that dress! :O

I just think the discourse always has these subtle digs at China and Chinese people. Like the idea "Confucian culture values bloodlines so they wont adopt", "Chinese stigma against disability". Look, are Chinese people in China perfect? No. but a lot of the negative stereotyping is unfair. The Chinese people have big hearts as demonstrated by the charity unleashed when there's a earthquake in Sichuan or numerous other times. Now, there may need to be some public awareness campaigns by the government to get people thinking in terms of domestic adoptions to encourage it but it will definitely happen. I just don't think a country exporting babies, no matter good the intentions, is good for the country or the babies.

There are tons of kids in the US foster care system right now. Do they need families? Yes. But here's the thing in the USA: the foster care system is difficult to navigate through. The process is long and expensive and uncertain, and just when a family is so close to having a child for adoption, guess what? The birth parent wants it back. Some Americans may adopt through foster care system but that is also uncertain because foster care babies are temporary stays. They are not permanent. They are not forever babies. Also, people prefer to adopt as young as possible because older ones tend to retain memories of the past and have bad habits acquired from other places. With young children, they are much easier to mold/shape in the adoptive family's likeness. So, these are all incentives for international adoptions. Nikocado Avocado -- the famous KZbinr -- is actually adopted from Ukraine, I recall. Just saying, there are other countries besides China. The Philippines is a country with lots of poverty and lots of unwanted births, so it's likely that single moms will dump their kids at the orphanages, and that means foreigners can adopt kids there. There is that famous Pakistani girl on Chinese social media. She is Pakistani by descent. In Pakistan, her Chinese parents were working for some construction company and then found a baby and then the locals said they could take her, that she was abandoned. So, the couple suddenly became parents. Kind of a miracle, though, because they had been trying for a baby but was unsuccessful. And here she was... in Pakistan. She was raised in China with her adoptive parents and became Chinese. If you cover your eyes, you'll think you are listening to a regular Chinese girl. She doesn't like to study, though, so she does social media instead and has made a lot of money out of it--enough to finance a remodeling of her family's house.

Was this filmed on a camera from 1990s?

First of all, for context, I was born in 1999 in Hunan, China, and I was adopted when I was one. I got the opportunity to make some friends in China. All of them told me I was lucky to have been adopted by Spanish parents, I wouldn't have had the quality of life and education I have if I had stayed there. One of them told me that I would have died, not just that my life would have been more difficult there but I would have died, he also said that where I'm from is kinda poor, so I would struggle more than being here in Spain. There are also cases were children or babies in the orphanages weren't well cared. I actually came in Spain with problems in my stomach and an infection in my ears that hadn't been treated and left me temporary deaf (I needed surgery and therapy to learn how to talk after recovering my hearing). So I feel very lucky to have been adopted.

I also know there’s a lot of stigma against disability still in China and most of the children being put up for adoption were disabled so this new law could either just land even more disabled children in orphanages. Or maybe it’ll lead to more disability acceptance but we don’t know yet (from a Chinese adoptee)

Only by true understanding of why China started the foreign adoption program in the lst place n now could end the program, can we know it is something to be happy for the country. It means the days when babies in China were abandoned at alarming rate is over and no longer is there a lack of domestic adoption too. You see the program was started about 4 decades ago out of necessity cos that time China with over 4x the population of uS. had severe twin problems of poverty n abandoned babies . Overtime these problems have dissipated due to earnest efforts n careful planning by the chinese govt to bcome a rich industrial country . Do you know that China GDP in 2015 has grown to be largest in the world by PPP measure. and China today is $18 trillion economy? . By 2019 , the country extreme poverty was eradicated and the no of middle class risen to over 400m . The one child policy which was implemented at the time the country was too poor to feed the overpopulation . was lifted now that country is no longer poor.. The lifting of the one child restriction and rise of affluence in the country have resulted in 2 positives - the dwindling no of abandoned babies as pple could afford more children and the the growth of domestic adoption as childless couples n other families can now afford adoptions. Therefore , we should be happy for China for these milestone achievements as we should for any other countries that can do the same. Anyway even tho pple cant adopt from China anymore, they could still adopt from all the other countries such as latin america, india , phillipine , south korea n so on . There are millions of abandoned /orphaned children out there waiting to be adopted.

You made some good points. I feel all the emotion. One my orphanage friend was adopted domestically in the picture. However, I was adopted and many other’s abroad. I always wonder how she is doing in China.

Hi I’m the sister. Feeling a lot better! Updates: part of a clinical trial for my type of cancer so fingers crossed it shows good results

Wow! What a great school. Have a blast

Congrats in getting to university . Wish you every success in your studies.

Some of my mandarin teacher will still took naps during their working environment because of the culture of taking them in elementary school.

Thanks for sharing about your move to An. arbor. You can be proud of yourself to pulling a U-Haul trailer by yourself. I am proud of you.

You are great!

You only get 1 BTS member ? I have the red version keychain Mic Drop

would steam engine n many machine tools in the industrial revolution be possible if iron ore smelting were not one of many ancient scientific discoveries n inventions by the chinese?

Please watch the documentary FOUND, it's amazing <3

This is so powerful, thank you. Thank you for putting together a community of voices. The unity is comforting to experience.

Thanks so much for making this video! It is so informative, and I am looking forward to more videos about your ETA taiwan experince. I plan on applying for the 2025-2026 Taiwan ETA cohort. WOO. :D

missing every day of this <33

You are a good sister Stay strong for your sister . Hope she can beat the illness n get well❤❤🙏🙏🙏❤

Sorry to hear about your sister that you had to change your plans. Hopefully able to visit those countries in the future.

KZbin recommended ur video to me😊.

I'm so sorry. Sending Maya all the love, hope, and healing from our family.

I am sorry sending love ❤

Sending my prayers ❤❤

thanks so much for these they are so helpful :)) i look forward to the budgeting video!

Why not enroll in a Chinese language course? Why not take an ancestry DNA test, one that specializes in East Asian populations? Then do a GED match search so that all people that have been tested over different companies can be located in one pool. Why not send a picture of you when and where you were found to newspapers and local Chinese news shows. Non of this may work, but it’s worth a try. Hope this comment was helpful.

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