Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy
by
Kay Ann Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
In the thirty-five years since China instituted its One-Child Policy, 120,000 children—mostly girls—have left China through international adoption, including 85,000 to the United States. It’s generally assumed that this diaspora is the result of China’s approach to population control, but...