Foreigners have unwittingly adopted victims of Baby-selling in China?

In recent years, one more loved China exports was adopted by some overseas special wishing to complete their families and help the disadvantaged children of the baby. Now an investigation by the Chinese magazine respected Caixin has discovered evidence of Chinese officials family planning taking children of local couples who supposedly violated the single child policy and sell in orphanages. Child welfare centres, it is falsified records alleged, and used to enable children adopted overseas. Under the international regulations, many countries require children who are adopted to be truly orphaned or abandoned. Caixin report focused on the cases of babies of the province of mountain Hunan province of China, where Chairman Mao was born and where of many farmers are struggling to pay heavy fines imposed on families with additional offspring. Abducted children have finished in the United States, the Poland and the Netherlands, according to Caixin report and a summary by the official media agency Xinhua. Similar baby-trafficking cases related to overseas adoptions have been reported over the past years, one in Guizhou province and the other also in Hunan. (See "how China has pruned genealogical trees.")

In the wake of the history of Caixin, officials of the province of Hunan have officially started a probe on the alleged cases, involving some 20 children of Longhui County over the last decade. But previous attempts by members of the family to locate their children were thwarted by local officials, said the Chinese magazine. Maintenance of the population of low growth is a means for local bureaucrats get the promotion, and the link led to various violations at the national level, including forced abortion of late term fetus. Caixin says that some children were not yet in violation of the one-child policy. But their parents were migrant workers who had little control of the removal of their offspring of family houses.The scandal also evokes a less declared fact: the decrease in the number of overseas Chinese girls available for adoption. Traditionally, Chinese families have preferred boys because they will remain in the family home when they grow up, enabling them to take care of their elderly parents. Crowded unwanted girls Chinese orphanages; most adoptions of Chinese babies overseas, therefore, involved girls. But, in part because of the widespread access to Sonograms, Chinese women took to the abandonment of female fetuses. In doing so, it is illegal but commonplace. Indeed, more recent results of the Census of China this year show that the proportion of men and women of the country is now 118 boys for every 100 girls.

Baby-sale took place in other countries which have offered children for adoption, especially in Cambodia and the Viet Nam, where the abuse had been devastation to the point that countries such as the United States put moratoriums on adoptions of these places. But, another tragedy of baby trafficking is that it is wrong the chances of needy children really find adoptive parents, as the whole process is tainted by allegations of embezzlement. Homes are needed for many babies. But, as the Hunan case seems to show, find that good children can sometimes be misleading difficult.