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Program Five - Segment Six: Where I'm From

Every year, approximately 5000 children from China are adopted into the United States.  Beginning in the 1990s China replaced South Korea as the leading sending country of Asian adopted children to the United States. In 1992, the Chinese government passed laws enabling foreigners to adopt Chinese children. There is no doubt that international adoption is changing the landscape of American life. Learning from the experiences of older Korean and Vietnamese adoptees, international adoptive parents, especially those adopting from China, actively seek to include more of the culture of the child’s birth country as part of family life.

Acknowledgements:

Ruben and Hyunju Chapellhine, Ying Ying Fry, Amy Klatzkin, Terry Fry, and fellow adoptees Maya, Zaji, Meili, Yang, Maggie and Kam.

Produced by Dmae Roberts and Miae Kim

Photos:

Adoptees Slideshow (opens in new window)

Further Internet Resources:

Bibliography

Fry,Ying Ying and Amy Klatzkin. Kids Like Me in China. Yeong & Yeong Book Company, 2001.

Klatzkin Amy, ed. A Passage to the Heart. Yeong & Yeong Book Company, 1999.

Noone, Lana. Global Mom: Notes From a Pioneer Adoptive Family. Gateway Press, 2003. 

Pertman, Adam. Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution Is Transforming America. Basic Books, 2000.

Steinberg, Gail and Beth Hall.Inside Transracial Adoption Perspectives Press, 2000.

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