Why I went to search for my birth parents in China | Commentary

[@BrandyHeng007]

A happy ending is the most important outcome though emotional scar never heal fully. Your happiness begins with your heart. Thanks for sharing 👍

[@JasJus.88]

She has a big heart to forgive her birth parents.

[@JohnMiao-v2q]

May God bless you, you are so nice to forgive your biological parents. Tough.

[@MsLilac88]

The Chinese culture favours boys over girls. It is so heartbreaking but this is the harsh reality in China. 😢

[@linusmayden8465]

It was only like that because of the one child policy and boys could financially carry the family better than girls.

[@ArabicReja973]

Chinese 🇨🇳 culture favors boys than girls and men than women. - With the previous One-Child policy, many families abandoned their newly born if they discovered it was a girl. This culture still exists in China today.

[@李珊-f2r]

No it’s not !

[@DDDrumpf]

You are outdated!! Girls are even more "precious" than boys in Chinese families nowadays...

[@linusmayden8465]

Limits on children no longer exist, so no, it doesn't happen anymore.

[@DDDrumpf]

@@ArabicReja973 well, girls are now more precious in Chinese families nowadays, old kidd!!

[@Lauren-vd4qe]

@@李珊-f2r the law may not exist BUT the CULTURE of not wanting girls DOES still exist in that country.

[@alexisl9426]

She’s very lucky. Not everyone receives a happy reunion with their birth parents. Some birth parents don’t want anything to do with them

[@samuelftw]

I read the article but it doesn't answer why she has 3 siblings when rural families were allowed 2 children if the first is a girl. The brother was born last so how did the parents get away with that? Did they not officially register his birth, as is sometimes the case?

[@WhoInvitedThatGirlAgain]

Enforcement and restrictions for the one-child policy varied from province to province and even town to town. The article hinted at some of the restrictions and consequences that her biological parents might have faced when they had, and decided to keep, their son. When parents have more than the allowed number of children, they might be faced with fines or the child(ren) might be denied social services such as schooling and healthcare. At the time, most rural Chinese lived in poverty and couldn’t bear the additional economic burden. It wasn’t a matter of “getting away with that”, there probably were consequences, but in a patrilocal marriage society, they might have been thinking about their family’s long-term future.

[@Ccb88888]

Shame on the parents for giving up their child. Every child is a blessing, and has a right to grow up with its parents in its own culture....

[@m.anttonen2874]

Hos did you find your parents? My sister also have an adopted dougther. ( born -92) from China

[@christineliu9835]

Where are the parents in China?

[@lsemeritus3785]

She is born in Huaian, Jiangsu province in 1994

[@christineliu9835]

@lsemeritus3785 really sad

[@aryang4488]

Ok...

[@Barrylee544]

Perhaps you should be grateful that your biological parents abandoned you; without their abandonment, you wouldn’t have the better life you now enjoy in the United States.

[@Ccb88888]

What utter nonsense. Every child has right to grow up with its parents in its own culture. Besides, isn't China meant to be the country of the future, whereas the US has its best days behind it?

[@nt4409]

@@Ccb88888 and she's already have that right stripped by her birth parents.

[@SoBiased]

India must do the same 😂😂

[@SoBiased]

The same story with Kamala 😂😂

[@Naksu..]

Can you speak chinese??

[@lsemeritus3785]

She can speak Chinese well, her Chinese name is 周江雯