China stops foreign adoptions, ending a complicated chapter
China stops foreign adoptions, ending a complicated chapter
- September 6, 2024
- Wang Feng, sociology, The New York Times, Sept. 6, 2024
“This is, in a way, the end of an era and the closing of one of the most shameful chapters of the three and a half decades of social engineering known as one-child policy,” said Wang Feng, a professor of sociology at the University of California at Irvine who specializes in China’s demographics. “The Chinese government created the problem and then they couldn’t deal with the financial constraints and that is why they allowed foreign adoption as a last resort.”
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