Category Archives: Why China??
An old Chinese proverb worth sharing -
An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole which she carried across her neck. One of the pots had a crack in it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water. At the end of the long walk from the stream …
"Special Needs" in China
When a child has anything outside the norm-heart murmur, cleft lip or palate, cyst, or even birth mark-China considers them “special needs”. I mean really, what child doesn’t have special needs anyway. In China, they don’t even offer children with any kind of mental disability for adoption. But once every 6 weeks or so, they …
China and Abandonment
The following is a little explanation about adoption and China I took from the America World Adoption Association site- “China is a country whose culture dates back to the earliest records known to man. At first glance, some of China’s beliefs may seem quite different than those we hold in the western world. One example …