American Families and Adoption of Chinese Children: Modern World

                 

      

              In 1998 two laws about adoption in China were revised to provide legal protection for the rights of adopted children. In China there are more than 200 welfare institutions that provided international adoption services, the numbers shown that foreign families have adopted more than 50,000 Chinese children by the end of the year 2002 and the American families have adopted more than 80 % of the children, in special American families have adopted girls because due to  the one child policy implemented in China, the couple in China prefer to have boys to girls.
      The American people who look forward for adopted a child have learned about abandoned female in China and for this reason prefer to adopt a girl than a boy , and the same time this adoption process has contributed to a better relationship between the two country.

MLA Citation

Luo, Jing. "American Families and Adoption of Chinese Children: Modern World." Daily Life through History. ABC-CLIO, 2011. Web. 13 Nov. 2011.

Pictured are the families who have recently returned from China with their children.