Back to China - (Adopted Girl Returns After 19 Years)

[@StylishRetreats]

Beautiful and powerful story Dawn. I know you and Isabella must be proud of what you produced together! Can't believe you shot all of this yourself. And the editor also did a fantastic job. Congratulations on this achievement!

[@dawnmeadowsdixondocumentar1951]

Thanks Amy it was an honor to tell this story! I hope more young girls like Isabella go back to China and experience this amazing journey of self discovery!

[@lisab.1559]

Love this story...my Husband and I adopted 4 kids from China after having biological children....best decision ever! We love all our kids and love how Isabella`s mom is encouraging her daughters Chinese culture, we plan to do the same. Ironically, our last adoption, we named our girl Isabella too...she came home just 6 months ago. 😁

[@dawnmeadowsdixondocumentar1951]

Lisa B. Thanks for your comments! Agree best decision in our life! It is quite a journey and blessing!

[@lisab.1559]

@@dawnmeadowsdixondocumentar1951 Yes it IS a blessing!! Thank You for sharing your familes story too. I also am half adopted, raised by my mom and adopted by her husband, my Dad as an infant. Adoption is a great way to build a family...

[@zaraandshalya5648]

Wow nice comment❤

[@lisab.1559]

@@zaraandshalya5648 😀

[@zaraandshalya5648]

@@lisab.1559 :)

[@AlexBrennan]

Wow. This is awesome. I was adopted from China too and hope to return one day!

[@dazhuanglou6430]

Welcome to come back one day.

[@rjoyce268]

WOW what a great story. Im glad Isabela went back to her homeland to see the culture, where she came from, and to take her mom with her.

[@ray38537]

I absolutely love it! I can totally relate to Isabella story. I was adopted from China when I was 2 years and 3 months. I was diagnosed deaf I have two Cochlear implants. I use to hide food to save for later, too. I wanna go visit to China someday to see where I was originally from. I hope someday my parents can take me back or go on a trip like this.

[@dawnmeadowsdixondocumentar1951]

Rachel Raak Thank you for your response to the video! I will pass your message on to Isabella. I hope one day you can go back to China! Thanks again !

[@muyun9525]

Wish u achieve your will as soon as possible！祝福好運！

[@adriannaa545]

Returning to China this summer! Thank you for sharing!

[@happyhappy6735]

Isabella's analysis is absolutely right - she has had a much better and limitless environment following the adoption, and she could fully explore and develop her potential, and of course she can enjoy better education quality being in the western world. Adoption has been great for her!

[@standardflight3563]

Hit it boys and girls. They are singing their hearts out.

[@meelusine]

Poor little angels. So beautiful path love seems to create more love. God is in this story for sure. I wish all those little angels are given back their childwood.

[@ShannonDerie]

What a great path you are on. I sponsor 8 children at an Orphanage in Yantai,China and I often wonder what their story’s are and how they got there. ❤🇨🇦

[@stephenhatch1907]

Thank you 🙏🏻 for sharing, you are an inspiration in humankind and love

[@金水树甲水]

非常令我感动！非常令我敬佩！girl, I'm proud of you!

[@ruthhenry7176]

What a beautiful documentary! Very well done! I, too, returned to China with our daughter to volunteer at Alenah's Home. We traveled with 2 other mother-daughter sets from our original travel group from 1997. I highly recommend it!! Thank you so much for this wonderful film!!

[@poppytzu5014]

Thank you for sharing your story and I wish you all the best. May God watch over and keep you and lead you in all your future adventures.

[@muyun9525]

Wish God bless Isabella forever！

[@francinelaurin520]

Such an inspiring story Dawn...you greatly touched me when you said.."adoption allows me to reach my potential"..aiming for medical field..we all need you!! ..Merci for sharing your feelings of returning to China🌟..looking forward to following your study progress 💕.. moi, canada 🇨🇦

[@dragondynasty9092]

Just by looking at Isabella I can tell she's a beautiful person inside out. By the way, Dawn your an amazing mom.

[@caspi88]

Awesome documentary. I found my dad for the first time last year 29 years from birth..looks like you have awesome adopted parents! It’s also cool you got to go back to china 😊

[@dawnmeadowsdixondocumentar1951]

Thank you so much! So glad you were able to find your dad!

[@sparta1446]

Both you mom and daugther are lucky to have each other. I hope one day I can also adopt a daughter in china🥰

[@iDelta77]

These babies are wondeful. I hope they got adopted to good families.

[@zarah8872]

Wonderful documentary. I was looking in to volunteering at Alenah's Home but covid-19 hit and now I have no choice but to put that on hold for now. I have set up a recurring donation since I cannot be there physically. Thanks for posting this x

[@rowanwoolsey3184]

Heard you on the Carney show. Such a powerful story. Thank you for sharing.

[@christiantomasitis2176]

Love you!!! Gotcha day sister!

[@Neyobe]

amazing video!

[@rebella8898]

You should make more videos. This was beautifully done.

[@joannajiao656]

YAY 💖😌, I moved to America three years ago and I was born in China also c: I had amazing memories and wish to visit there again

[@marklin605]

God blessed!

[@YatrawithBikram]

You should make more videos its so interesting ❤️❤️

[@andreadepaula8172]

Very nice! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🥳🎈

[@dawnmeadowsdixondocumentar1951]

Thank you! Please share if you can!

[@portiafosuaa3695]

Hi i want to adopt a child too

[@portiafosuaa3695]

[e-mail] pls lets chat

[@ChinaAdoptionSupport]

Our daughter was 6 years old at adoption. She has bad memories and refuses to ever go back for a visit and it breaks my heart.

[@lawrencechong7590]

It is refreshing to note that you trying to reconnect with your root.

[@dazhuanglou6430]

Welcome home

[@rjoyce268]

Dawn is there a gotcha video? I would love to see the day you met the twins.

[@dawnmeadowsdixondocumentar1951]

Yes done 20 years ago I need to transfer it and post it as well thank you for asking!

[@deborahferris2180]

Dawn Meadows Dixon Documentaries Hello, Twins? I’m confused and missed part of the story perhaps? Does Isabella have a twin or did you earlier adopt twins? Thank you for your reply. BTW wonderful story. Congratulations on your Emmy win.

[@pablow2009]

She went to Medical school in Colombia South America ? Wow if she did what a bless for my country

[@MelvinMolden6898]

You're cute then 3 years ago,. I bet you're very cute now, hopefully you're doing what yu wanted out of life so far. Your mom ( American ) that s an great humanitarian bean. You bless she found you then.

[@tuanivando9634]

To the American parents: You are amazing! These kids getting adopted by American parents are like winning the lottery.

[@kevinwang963]

Do you have website of the volunteering home?

[@dawnmeadowsdixondocumentar1951]

They do not have volunteers presently but thank you for your interest!

[@megawhitesox0574]

blessed are the meek ,for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.

[@tommylagan]

Wow there is little keyuan I wonder how he is doing with his parents now

[@danielseb6176]

You're lucky to have white parents who's supportive and never giving up on you. I hate parents giving up on kids why does they give up birth when they can't take care of it. It's the baby that suffers

[@annacleta6954]

It was all about the one-child policy in China, not necessarily because the birth parents were irresponsible or incapable of parenthood.

[@BellyHolly]

It was China's one-child policy plus Chinese's preference for (healthy) sons over daughters (back then).

[@running_girl5512]

Sometimes someone cannot take care of their child due to circumstances, they love their kid enough to give them up to have a better life. Not all people give up kids because they do not care, some care so much that they know the child deserves more than they can give. You have a very single opinion on why people give up their kids, you should really try to expand that vision, there are so many reason some good some bad. So by your solution everyone should abort every child that isn't wanted? Some women make the biggest sacrifice ti carry to term and then give their child a better life, or they may not be allowed to keep the child as sometimes they are forced to give it up or the government doesn't allow you to keep it. So many reasons exist and it's important to recognize.

[@running_girl5512]

Also a mother isn't just a biological mother, you say the kid suffers but my husband is adopted and was adopted a toddler, he doesn't suffer. He knows if he had stayed with his birth parents in Ukraine he would have suffered in poverty and get had bad health and his birth parents couldn't afford his care. They gave him up to give him more. His parents who raised him love him more than anything and couldn't have children so they adopted. Man you are narrow minded.

[@ceciliapagano6636]

✌✌😥😥👨‍💼🙎‍♀️poveri bambini👏✌

[@jackiesantillan8522]

GOD Bless💕😇🤣

[@waqasarshad986]

Pleas reply can a Pakistani adopt a Chinese baby

[@flyinpug3791]

Your video is extremely insightful. I was adopted too! I’m trying to create a page to connect adoptees all around the world, for people sharing their stories of adoption. It would be great if we had someone like you to share your story if possible?

[@bolobean]

Are you a doctor now

[@jamesfu6151]

重生啊

[@zaraandshalya5648]

Why is mom and dad puting there kid to adopt

[@dawnmeadowsdixondocumentar1951]

Kara And emma They we’re adopted from China because of China’s one child policy. The government would only allow families to have one child to control the country’s population. My daughters and some 100 thousand other girls were adopted and brought to United States. It was a cruel and awful policy that should be exposed to the world! This went on for 30 years in China. If people didn’t listen to the government they were punished. There were forced abortions and sterilizations! This must never happen again! It was China’s holocaust! Thank you for watching and sharing!

[@zaraandshalya5648]

@@dawnmeadowsdixondocumentar1951 oh

[@忧郁小王子]

@@dawnmeadowsdixondocumentar1951 is easy for you to say that the one child policy is pure cruel and awful, since you are raised in America. Back then China is poor and underdeveloped, people from the rural area will tend to have as many children as possible, not that they want to have a big family but to have more children to help their farm work. Without that one child policy, China will still be as poor as India. If you really want to blame someone for something, why don't you blame the western countries (including USA), countries that invade China and turn it into a shithole. Plus, I was born in China 1997, the second son in the family in Guangdong.

[@BellyHolly]

@@忧郁小王子 well, little depressed prince, you really need to thank your mom for her courage to bring you to this world, for there were women with 7 or 8 months pregnancy who had to go through forced abortion after being caught. Or thank your daddy for his Guangxi and money which ensured your birth. And thank God you weren't a girl! Being a girl you would have very likely been abandoned!

[@忧郁小王子]

Holly Holly don’t even try to act like you know a lot, for real, how many Chinese people you know in real life. Things are just not that bad for many people. 别在我面前装逼，我是中国人.

[@ShannonDerie]

Forgot to ask,will you try to find your biological family?

[@waqasarshad986]

Can a Pakistani couple adopt a Chinese baby

[@Nannerchan]

They should offer voluntary DNA testing for children and adults who want to reconnect.