Kay Ann Johnson spent more than 20 years listening to the anguished accounts of Chinese people who relinquished, adopted, and hid out-of-plan or over quota children in the face of the country’s One-Child Policy. In China’s Hidden Children, she shares their stories.
[Book Review] Wanting a Daughter, Needing a Son
The questions that linger in the mind of most any adopted child are “Why?” “Why couldn’t they keep me?” “Why did I have to leave the place where I was born?”