Prior to this announcement the only children who could be adopted out of China were children with disabilities and older children who were about to age out of the system. AKA the kids who are least likely to get adopted. If China can convince their citizens to adopt and foster these children, then fine. My concern is that many children have lost their last chance of a family.
It's probably Chinese people in America who have lived in America since the British had colonies in America and china that are adopting them to be honest. Most people think are Chinese in the west are not they where coming from British colonies mainly which where British and the people there. The Chinese helped build the railroads in America been there for years and in the UK.
We have china towns in the west and the uk us Brits call Hong Kong are little English town in china 😂😂😂😂 Hong Kong if you take away the Chinese look is very British to everything underneath the surface is like us and like London. I had family that worked out there for the British in the 70s and 80s
@@oceanwave4502it's china that's been doing it anyway that's the thing as well in the west people don't know how china had changed while Europe has turned into this 😂😂😂😂
150,000 adopted over 30 years. That's only like 0.01057% of China's current population of about 1,42 billion. Hence stopping overseas adoptions isn't really going to make any difference to China's decline in children/births. But if orphaned Chinese children can all find good homes in China then that would probably be best for them.
It is also difficult for Chinese people to apply for adoption. In the past, adoption was required without children! It is more difficult than the conditions for foreigners to adopt!
Many of them went back to China find their root. I can imagine how these adopted kids feels. Totally confusing...they get abandoned by their own people who refused to take care of them. Feeling lost in the middle and asking themselves who are they. Which world are they belong to. This is one of the reasons I'll never married out of my race because I want my kid fully accept in my society.
There's also the issue in China that children whose parents / parent are on death row or have died by death penalty cannot be adopted and won't be taken in by orphanages (see village of the sun documentary) I'm not sure what China is doing to support them? I'm not saying this to oppose the legislation they are bringing in, but rather more as a side point of I don't think China is doing enough for adoptive children / orphans.
Our foster care system makes it difficult to adopt who you want. We have to change our foster care system to resemble that of foreign orphanages or otherwise make it easier to adopt children above the age of 2.
@@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa790 As a foster carer... Just no. What we have found is that kids that have no contact with birth families, no matter how bad, have worse outcomes. I would never adopt my foster kid as these kids are highly expensive in times of therapy. It would lead to us being homeless. His therapy alone costs about $300 a week. When he was younger add speech pathology and OT which added $250 a week. Now.. add to that all the lost work for being called to school to pick him up early because fostered and adopted kids have a lot of issues in school. ... and this is a kid without disabilities.... in a country with cheaper healthcare. I estimate he would cost $20,000 a year in healthcare costs and $15,000 in lost work. Since the foster care system covers healthcare costs I can afford the lost work. In the USA, one of the biggest for foreign adoption, people don't realise they are adopting highly traumatised or damaged kids. They think it'll be a typical child they are raising so they aren't prepared for all the therapy and different parenting needed. As a result, 20,000 foreign adopted kids are abandoned... every year. These kids are then out of the foster care system and are often abused in other care arrangements. There was a good doco on it a few years ago.. by good.. I mean shocking. "Re-Homing: America's Shocking Trade in Unwanted Children."
One thing that maybe should be pointed out, under the "one child" law, many people gave up girl babies to orphanages so they could try for a boy for their "one child", which meant that most of the adoptions out of China, unless by family members, were girl children who did not have much of a future back in the day. Yes, not everyone who adopted was a good person, but many of those children ended up with good futures where they really would not have had one in China. Also, still more likely to get boys adopted out of the system than girls ... traditions frequently over rule logic.
It’s a supply- demand issue too. A lot of Chinese women are highly educated and looking to have children and marrying later in life, I know among my friends and family a few women who can’t conceive and are looking to adopt. China has to respond to their own internal demand too.
This is not why older women are not marrying, cos if you read comments online from inside the mainland, they are very negative about older women? A lot of name callings too that goes on ? And many mother-in-laws are extremely extremely actually very picky too ??... Like really badly.... but these kind of things aren't written in English, so your average westerners are not aware of. Or maybe they do, but doesn't care... much. So, when these women marry outside of the country, or to a Westerner... they are also often criticised too. Either way, it is a no win game?... Some of the remaining people, also want a person a marriage in some villages... It's so so so crazy.. Something has to be done at some point in time...
Good! Some of the shady stuff that went down in the 80's and 90's with the adoption agencies should be avoided at all costs. A lot of the kids weren't even orphans.
Well, this stuff happened in Afrika and other Asian countries. China had one child policy, and families preferred boys. So girls were abandoned by their parents. But you're right that those agencies are just legal trafficking.
@@ashutoshyadav7385 I don't know the parent commenter's reference exactly, but over in South Korea, decades ago the military dictatorship blocked many aunts/uncles/grandparents from keeping their young relatives because it was more profitable to export the children overseas to gullible Westerners with savior complexes. And the government never followed up in cases of bad adoptive parents. Australian news did a report earlier this year. th-cam.com/video/X5HV4pE-E0A/w-d-xo.html
I mean honestly if Chinese children can find good homes within their birth country that is probably better for them. And in the US where most of the Chinese children went we have thousands of American children who need homes
Yeah, and they no need to face a racism. China now is not China 30 years ago. They're rich....me, when travel to China still amazes how fast they develop. No more cash. High technology...I feels so behind in tech when go there 😂
I'd have to disagree. In no way would I ever want to grow up in a society where the language I speak limits me to just 1 country and for that country to have the 996 as a business practice.
The reason a lot of people adopted abroad is because it's cheaper then adopting locally. If the USA wants more people to adopt locally they need to make changes.
There are far more natural birth parents that harm their own children than adoptive. This has more to do with keeping the girl children so that they can replenish China's flagging population. The men far out number the women now, and women there are not getting married or having children like in the past.
I can't fault them on this. For Americans wishing to adopt, there are MANY THOUSANDS of kids IN THE US awaiting adoption. Probably in their own cities. Why are you going to China?? Adopt an older kid. Don't go for babies - or are you just in it because you want a cute baby??
I like the comparison with the designer handbag because some privileged communities look at "foreign" kids as collectibles to be adopted for prestige and then neglected or misused once the actual parenting kicks in.
I wouldn't want Chinese kids to be adopted by homosexual couples in America and end up being sexually abused, sodomized, or lured into the homosexual lifestyle. Let American kids enjoy that.
I was just telling some coworkers, about how years ago, on trips to China, the flights were quiet. The flights back were filled with crying and screaming infants. You knew that they were recently adopted.
There are enough people in China who want to adopt a child. If you compare the requirements of a Chinese or a foreigner adopting a kid in China... the former has to prove he/she has sufficient living place, good incomes and so. My former supervisor in China adopted a girl (he and his wife have a son), and they are both professors in medical school. Think about the news this year that a couple in US slaved two kids they adopted for years.
Even so, you cannot force younger generations to have children. We have to accept that having own family nowadays is hard. Life is hard might as well dont bring anymore children.
The Adoption Law of China is too strict to allow legal adoption. There might be a few successful cases but never have I seen a family with an adopted child for the past 40 years living in China.
The people get used to one child policy. Most of my friends only have one child. There are also many people who won't get married or get married without planning to have kids. Preschools are struggling because there aren't as many kids as before.
... Spirit of... Huh..? Guys, politics is an adult problem. Adoption is about giving kids a home. There's no rule about them coming home, later. Don't deny kids a shot at a family, man.
A lot of religious nuts adopt kids to spread their cults. It's not just about family. There is a big problem with child trafficking and vulnerable poor people being pressured or forced to give up their children so people with money can "buy" them. Adoption is a political issue. Look up mother and baby homes in both protestant and catholic cummunities and how women and children were held against their will and abused, the kidnapping of children during the Franco regime in Spain, or the child trafficking cases in Argentina during the dictatorship.
I can’t believe this happened! I never thought that I would see China join in with other countries like Guatemala, Ethiopia, and Russia who have banned international adoptions!
It is right that Russia banned foreign adoption, the main reason is the abnormality of the brains of Western society, which in nurseries and schools promotes the LGBT community, sex change in children, use blockers for the asexual system of children, sex change operations... go to hell with your sick fantasies... moral freaks and marginals, monsters who turn children into cripples, incapable of procreation, and even with sick brains... I don't care what you dream about there in the West, but in my great Russia there are and will be traditional Christian values and, above all, healthy and smart children... that's why China also banned adoption... stop torturing children...
Actually, it's just because there are too many perverts in Europe and America, such as perverted godfathers who adopt children. They are just worried that the child will be abused
150,000 thousands got out and I’m one of them. So thankful!! (I feel so sad too because I feel like I’m missing a part of me and I think I have a sibling somewhere and I really want to meet him or her)
We've got a serious math problem in our society if people think 5,000 adoptions per year have any impact on a 1.4 billion population. Edit: literally had to pull up Excel to do the calculation since the calculator didn't like the small number. That's 0.056% of the total births (rounding would make it 0.1%).
But then if you also did the math and said that each one of those 5,000 children go on to have 2.4 children each, after 7 generations these 5,000 kids will have turned into 1 millions kids.
You misunderstand the math and value system behind this entirely. 5,000 is a lot of children when you're below replacement rate in births. More importantly, when most families are having just one child, then 5,000 is a lot to spare, no matter how big the country is.
Are you calculating 1.4 billions people mating at the same time? lol. That include 70's + years old grandma. China has one of the oldest population in the world.
@@bigfisher4354 At the present birth rate in China (1.7%) in 7 generations it is expected to have shrunk by ~75%. In 3 generations it is projected to be half of what it is today. No nation in the last 50 years has reversed population decline. So much for those extra million kids.
Met a few Chinese kids raised by US parents who have no relation to China. Almost all the parents (according to them) are fundamentalist Christians. I'm not sure if this new policy is good. But the old policy didn't really do a good job vetting the people who wanted to adopt kids.
Honestly,that obsession of some western christians with asians and african children scares me. They surely must think those kids are clean sheets of paper they can freely write their cosmovisions. It's some kind of colonialist mentality.
Thay running out of young people to take care of older people. Not enough young people to take care of older retirees. I heard u can retire at age 55 in china.
Actually, it's just because there are too many perverts in Europe and America, such as perverted godfathers who adopt children. They are just worried that the child will be abused
El asunto, del cuidado de los anciano. En par de años seran robot. Que los atenderan, ya muchas startup de robot China. Ya estan trabajando para fabricar robot en mas para el cuidado de los ancianos. Tambien la industria de China, de esta robotizando. De manera bestial.
We used to be able to retire at 55 here in the US, Not anymore. It was a bad plan to begin with, how could they have thought they'd keep up birthrates if they're weren't enough females.
Good interview. Demographics is definitely a major reason for this, yet probably not the only reason. Some people in China are very worried about China's declining population growth, even though it still has a massive population, comparatively. There has been a ramping up of various efforts to encourage locals to have more children, unlike in the past. There are also economic (etc) reasons too.
How cruel! It's bad enough that they leave their children in dumps and train stations to be abandoned. They can't be adopted after 13 and at 18 cast out of orphanage. Bullsh*t my son was not allowed to be adopted because paperwork took past his 13th birthday and he had a heart problem and they did NOT care for him. I have lost contact years ago and have no idea if he survived.
i hope they set up good systems in place to support these orphans. overall i hope this is a good thing. as a first gen chinese american, i know many happy and successful chinese adoptees. but i also know many who got adopted into evangelical savior type communities, growing up in an environment of shame, confusion, and isolation. not to mention those who get adopted into downright bad families and end up absd and on the streets… ironically in far worse situations than had they just stayed in their home country.
Yes! People don't realise that just because someone is taken from somewhere they are automatically safe. It's the same in the foster care sector. I have had as many kids who have been abused in foster care come through my house than have been abused by their family. Half of kids in juvenile detention are from foster care... Says a lot about how good foster care works.
Saying that is kinda like saying the south part of the USA is not developed per se. It's not hustle bustle everywhere and some of the places are impoverished. That doesn't mean it isn't a developed country though.
China is a country with the highest orphans in the world. I’ve seen the videos of Chinese Orphans In the 90s. It made me sick. My cousin is adopted and she helped me learn Chinese, and to cook from her culture and have seen her grandparents on zoom. As a family we respect her background. She isn’t a handbag, she is my family.
Adoption in the US is nightmare. The process is very long and expensive. It takes 2 years. There are many interviews. And even after the child is legally adopted the mother has 1 year to change her mind and ask for her child back, even after you spent so much money in the adoption process. Who wants to go through that?
Because they delude themselves to think that they win virtue points, "celebrity," and holier-than-thou status for being so magnanimous as to adopt a child from another culture, particularly one that predominantly manifests different phenome expressions, so that the difference in appearance between parent and child is abundantly noticeable to everyone.
There is so much poverty there. They're not helping themselves or their children. I'm surprised so few children were adopted over thirty years. That's like a drop in the bucket compared to the population of China. How will this actually help them?
I think it is absolutely bad news for the orphans in China. In Chinese culture we really emphasize the blood relationships. Only the couples could give birth to babies will adopt.
@@johnc1873 Chinese people in general, yes they do, but Mainlanders are different story all throughout the nation though. Many have become Unfilial and abandoned their elderly parent's due to pressure of society, some even go as far as leaving them in parks like people abandoning their dogs. The Mainland is rapidly changing into something not very Chinese anymore, if you had to compare it to other Chinese communities outside of China.
@@johnc1873 lol, not saying the usual Chinese don’t, I’m saying your government doesn’t 😒 dumb dumb 🤦♀️ oh btw, quite a number of seniors chose to be in the retirement home themselves 😒 my mother-in-law is dead set on that, because her mother was a strong, independent woman who also chose the retirement home for herself 🤷♀️ different culture, dumb ass 😒
This report comes across as if a child is some sort of an asset you can purchase. I can imagine how it must impact the child growing up with this experience. Being abandoned first, then 'sold' (to the otherside of the world), society telling them having to be grateful to have been saved & being the 'lucky' one to end up in a rich country.
Well throughout history that is exactly how they’ve been looked upon. And they are assets. And people are willing to spend tens of thousands on fertility treatments just to have a child.
@@alanfriesen9837not necessarily. The reality might be that the country realizes it needs the extra children to take care of the rest of the population when they get older.
@@ronica2623 China is actually more concerned with getting the children that already exist to not abandon their elders. In some jurisdictions you can be fined if you don't visit your parents once in a while. So yes, the government is concerned about filial relationships going forward, but it's not so much about economics. As automation gets increasingly advanced it's going to be more and more difficult to keep everybody working anyway. Taking care of an aging population isn't going to be answered by increasing the number of children; it will have to be based on altering the resource distribution models.
@@alanfriesen9837 we are talking about economics. Children take care of their parents so that the government doesn’t have to. Extra children take care of those who do and don’t have children in indirect ways so that the government doesn’t have to. Extra children also needed in industry (ok, for now). That’s your resource distribution model in simplistic terms.
I was wondering if and when they would do this. Especially with their downturn of people having their own children and the aging population. I do hope that the children fair well with this new policy though
I don’t agree with what he said about people adopting Chinese children like showing off a designer handbag ‼️ without Chinese children being adopted by people in whatever country where would they be in a orphanage until they are old enough to kicked out with nowhere to go and no family that they know of⁉️ that statement was insulting to all the parent’s who have adopted Chinese children and gave them a good education and a good home environment to be in‼️ 🤨
Well, why should you adopt foreign born kids when all western countries have foster care systems with kids screaming for people to take them. Here in Australia we have such a shortage they are putting kids in hotels with rotating staff. In Australia we have group homes where there is a legally mandated 4 to a group home... They have kids on mattresses on the floor now so 5-6 kids per group home. All it took to break the system was a single homeless shelter to be closed. We need foster carers... but... people want their ideal family so they skip over 'broken' kids that are just down the road. What they don't realise is that adoptive kids can also have similar issues. Hence why in the USA alone they abandone 20,000 foreign adopted kids a year... according to the doco "Rehoming: America's Trade in Unwanted Children."
This report is super biased, they have zero knowledge about the conditions in a typical children’s home in China. Horrible! To make it worse, Private ones were forced to close down since COVID.
This report is super biased, they have zero knowledge about the conditions in a typical children’s home in China. Horrible! To make it worse, Private ones were forced to close down since COVID.
In Canada, Indigenous children overpopulate the foster system and those kids deserve loving families and the prospective Canadian parents should focus their eyes there verses children across the world.
Reasons why Western adoptive parents prefer Chinese ophan is because many were abandoned due to financial hardship and not drugs/alcohol abused or forcelly taken away from criminal parents by the legal system. Chinese kids are disciplined, smart and well-behaved. You may ends up having a future computer scientist or engineer.
@@ankundamwebembezi6358It's called being *Selective.* Some people only want to adopt "special needs" children, or kids that share similar ethnicity backgrounds
Yes.. foster kids are challenging but... so are adoptive kids. There are so many books on helping kids who have been adopted and they are eerily similar to the books about foster kids. In fact, as a foster carer I spend a lot of time reading adoption books and watching adoption videos because the issues are the same. 20,000 adopted kids a year are abandoned in the USA.... This is because people adopt them not knowing how difficult they will be or the level of disability. Look it up. "Rehoming: The trade in America's Unwanted Children."
Wow! My husband and I almost started an international adoption from China. We were warned that adoptions from China were stalling for unknown reasons. Until a reason was given, we were advised to seek an adoption elsewhere. How sad though. The society has not changed--your family determines who you marry, if you marry at all. Orphans will be considered bottom of the barrel there, especially those with special needs.
The country has over a billion people, I don't see how a declining population is a bad thing. They've been having to buy much of their food from other countries for decades now.
Because the aging population will put a strain on health care and economy! No longer bringing in money, working or paying tax, AND getting their pension. Just imagine! China put the most absurd rules in play to combat growing population... only one kid per family( for many years)!!! So that decline must be very sharp!
It's a really serious issue. The more old people you have in comparison to working people, the more your economy is under strain. Western countries deal with this by having insanely efficient and productive workers, and we're still struggling. China doesn't have those advantages yet - it could cause massive problems for them.
Imagine having 50,000 elderly to 20,000 young people in a country and as an economy. Those 20000 will have to earn enough to support an extra 30000 who will keep burning through more resources than they bring in because people live 30 years longer than they did in the past. No generation before now had to deal with a falling population mixed with an ageing population living this long. Living past sixty was a feat a hundred years ago.
China was hotspot back in the day because their orphanage's consist of higher numbers of healthier children, compared to the countries that you listed.
Foreign adoption leads to kidnapping and strong-arming vulnerable families. Most of the adopters are probably unaware of this, either because they can't see or because they don't want to look. There is also a tendency for adopters to tell the children that they were unwanted because it makes them feel better, even though it traumatizes the kids.
@@alanfriesen9837that’s happened in Uganda when poor parents thought they were sending kids to a boarding school and it turned out to be a scam when a U.S. couple adopted a young girl and once she learned English she let her American adopted parents know the truth. The couple reported to the state department and they opened an investigation only to find out similar cases. The kids were reunited with their families and the “school “ shutdown by the Ugandan government.
South East Asia - They used to buy kids off parents to put in orphanages. Foreign tourists would then pay to come over to do charity work in these orphanages. The people coming over weren't child abuses or anything but there was money to be made in the adoption trade. It was a whole industry and probably still is.
That moronic 1 child policy turned them from one of the poorest countries in 1976 in the world into the richest country in the world by Purchasing Power parity today. Japan, Singapore, Italy, Spain and South Korea never had a 1 child policy but they are all facing demographic challenges even worse than China.
That's not what screwed them. The one child policy was actually a good initiative to curb population growth. What was consequential though was parents prizing boys over girls and actively aborting female fetuses as a result. Blame the culture, not the program.
@@oisinquinn9469 Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Italy, Spain, Singapore and many other countries and regions didn't have a one child policy and yet they are facing far worse demographic crisis than China is facing. So what is your point?
Poor kids having no choice but to grow up in the US. I was taken from the UK to the US as a young child and immediately moved permanently to Spain upon graduating from university in California 25 years ago.
One child plus is born in China EVERY SECOND! @BBC AD @this expert (?) - the one child policy was abolished on 1st September 2016! Surely, everyone knows this? You were ALW AYS allowed to have more than one child. Indeed, people in the countryside continued to have 1+ children but they were taxed! And we all know that, we Chinese, are exceptionally good at mathematics! We got used to having only child in the city - cheaper housing, access to subsidies, not having to pay for the schooling of a 2nd child, etc.
That man is such a liar. The orphanages are funded by donations made from families who adopt internationally. The director of the orphanage was so relieved when we made our donation. He said it would be enough to feed the children for over a year. The government does not fund these facilities. And when filling out our paperwork, the government worker we talked to thanked us for adopting our son because if he stayed in China, there was a 95% chance he would not be adopted. This was in 2019, not decades ago. The economy is collapsing in China. Jobs are disappearing. People are losing their life savings in the housing market. They will not suddenly want to adopt children unrelated to them. What lies.
What is the actual reason for this? So few children in China and that makes them so precious. Thus, they should not be transferred to other countries for adoptions as that will reduce further the number of children in China.
@@d.n.8919 The real reason is that foreign adoption has been a conduit for human trafficking that encouraged kidnappings and unscrupulous pressure on poor families with children in need of medical attention. Countries that can take care of their children don't permit them to be adopted overseas. China is now in a position to take care of their children.
Their country their rules Personally I’ve only seen a few who actually teach their kids about their home country and language I think it’s important that if u adopt a child from another country, race, ethnic group, that u have to make sure they know their language and culture it’s important I do think China may have done this because they need a large workforce in their lower jobs like factories and such and ppl aren’t having babies much anymore (for obvious reasons) So I do understand the change However the issue is that this means there will be lots of disabled and older kids who won’t have a chance at a family which is sad I think they should allow children with disabilities to still be adoptable because most Chinese won’t adopt these kids because the costs for medical care associated with them I’m sure their r lots of lovely Chinese ppl who care for the disabled but there’s only so much space and they need livelong care which isn’t really easy to do Either way their country their rules but I do think ppl need to focus on what’s best for the kids I just hope that any pending adoptions aren’t canceled
China’s demographic problems are not the ones European countries are experiencing. At least, China, as a completely industrialized economy, will still have the second largest culturally unified population in the world even if the country reduces its population by half. The major issue of China’s demographics literally is how to smoothly and healthily transition and transform its society and economy over next ~30 years, at the time all its citizens born before ~1955-1965 pass away.
I think it is hard to grow up as an orphan in the US (in this political climate where everything and anything is blamed on China; in such a different culture and with such q crazy US government) without developing mental problems.
Why don't you feel bad also in USA promoting lgbtq and allowing to teach in school about LGBTqQ for children later they become gay and lesbian childless and also encouraging people to be childless.
No, if they can support those adoptions domestically now. Remember, China is vastly different now than it was 30 years ago. They discussed this in the news report.
it is evil to steal children from other nations under the guise of “adoption”. children should be looked after by their native people. would you like it if a very different people took your children away from you!
No, it makes sense! They already have demographic issues of having too many old people but not enough younger generation; and they have economic ability to take care of those orphans.
No. The adoption industry is a group of grotesque profiteers where the babies often end up in the sex industry in pornography for paedophiles. If you cannot have children, adopt FROM YOUR OWN DAMN COUNTRY.
I don’t think you commenter knows much about adoption in China. China has had a large market who want to adopt. Unfortunately the money stream for adoptable children, has been Western countries, which has mean that Chinese couples have historically been excluded. However, the stream of children trafficked from SE Asian countries that border China and theft and trafficking of children within China have met that demand whist official orphanages profited hugely by exclusively dealing with international adopters. That financial incentive unfortunately created a demand for baby girls as Western belief systems have persisted that it is the Chinese get rid of girls in the hope of having a boy, so Western demand is for girls. This fuels corrupt systems in China in procuring girls to me the specific demand. Some of these practices involve corrupt official demanding huge sums of money (more than the official penalty rates) from parents who broke the one child policy, who get their money from either the parents who will find a way to pay, or from orphanages who will pay child finders (where the cost ultimately gets paid by the massive “donations” expected of Western adopters to orphanages). These systems start to break down when the one child policy ended, greater awareness in the international adoption community of the corrupt practices, the smashing if child trafficking rings that fuel both internal Chinese adoption, but also slave labour, and trafficking of children into China, and of course the disruption of the pandemic in terms of physically, and of backlash against China. Another dynamic that probably contributed to the decision is gender skew within the country. This has also contributed to trafficked girls within China to procure and raise girls for the role purpose of becoming brides in places where the skew is severe and parents want to ensure their son will have a bride. It’s not healthy for China to export children when it leaves a vacuum that is filled with illegal trafficking. This complex system your commenter seems entirely naive about.
who knew the authoritarian regime would have fucked up there country with poorly thought out policy and is now tryng to fix the problem with poorly thought out policy i just hope they look after those kids
It wouldn't have been a poorly thought out policy as China at that time was a third world country and people were starving. The government didn't have the resources or supply chains it does now so wasn't able to provide for the people. As the country's managed to develop, especially the opportunities for women to be independent and educated has risen so they tend to have busier lives and spend their time with pets rather than relationships and children.
Yea why dont we use our ears and eyes, shall we? Take a look at the data and take a look at the society in both China and India and you will have your answer
I live here in China and yes the people who were worse off have been helped. The extreme third-world type of poverty is gone. I'm not saying that everything is perfect, but the improvement in ordinary people's lives has been dramatic.
It's not really zero, seem like they only allowed a family with blood relatives to adopt. Why these Western family don't go adopt Indian baby.... there's a lot of babies right now. Baby in China now are treasure. Especially a girl.
He finally realized decades of limiting children left him with more old subjects than young, and decided not enough would be praising him and feeding his ego in the near future, so now we're keeping all our kids since we now decided we don't need some place to put the children and we'll raise them ourselves.
Really BBC, why do the translators try to match the accent of the nationality concerned? I am an Indian and I don't really care how you modulate voices (esp. for the chinese) based on their race or nationality. It's borderline insulting! 😊
Prior to this announcement the only children who could be adopted out of China were children with disabilities and older children who were about to age out of the system. AKA the kids who are least likely to get adopted. If China can convince their citizens to adopt and foster these children, then fine. My concern is that many children have lost their last chance of a family.
half of them have families they just dump them because they're girls and won't earn their parents any money
China's adoption policy is very strict to its own people, so there are plenty of Chinese couples want to adopt but they can't apply to the policy.
Don’t add problems from the other side of the globe to your worries. Isn’t there a problem you can help with nearby?
@@pipiqiqi4010 i'm sure they can buy one on Temu they dump their kids on the street every day
They need to keep them to be breeders. Their population is crashing hard.
This is to combat aging population and low birth rate
All the more reason to adopt foreign kids lmao. What a complete blatant lie.
It's probably Chinese people in America who have lived in America since the British had colonies in America and china that are adopting them to be honest. Most people think are Chinese in the west are not they where coming from British colonies mainly which where British and the people there.
The Chinese helped build the railroads in America been there for years and in the UK.
We have china towns in the west and the uk us Brits call Hong Kong are little English town in china 😂😂😂😂 Hong Kong if you take away the Chinese look is very British to everything underneath the surface is like us and like London. I had family that worked out there for the British in the 70s and 80s
Also China is rich enough now. To take care of especially children.
@@oceanwave4502it's china that's been doing it anyway that's the thing as well in the west people don't know how china had changed while Europe has turned into this 😂😂😂😂
150,000 adopted over 30 years. That's only like 0.01057% of China's current population of about 1,42 billion. Hence stopping overseas adoptions isn't really going to make any difference to China's decline in children/births. But if orphaned Chinese children can all find good homes in China then that would probably be best for them.
Thats a big if unfortunately
It's also safer in China than the US.
It is also difficult for Chinese people to apply for adoption. In the past, adoption was required without children! It is more difficult than the conditions for foreigners to adopt!
not many are orphanned with both parents dead, they just dump them
Many of them went back to China find their root. I can imagine how these adopted kids feels. Totally confusing...they get abandoned by their own people who refused to take care of them. Feeling lost in the middle and asking themselves who are they. Which world are they belong to. This is one of the reasons I'll never married out of my race because I want my kid fully accept in my society.
There's also the issue in China that children whose parents / parent are on death row or have died by death penalty cannot be adopted and won't be taken in by orphanages (see village of the sun documentary) I'm not sure what China is doing to support them? I'm not saying this to oppose the legislation they are bringing in, but rather more as a side point of I don't think China is doing enough for adoptive children / orphans.
There are children right here at home who need adoption and fostering.
Your country " right " dude
Our foster care system makes it difficult to adopt who you want. We have to change our foster care system to resemble that of foreign orphanages or otherwise make it easier to adopt children above the age of 2.
@@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa790 As a foster carer... Just no. What we have found is that kids that have no contact with birth families, no matter how bad, have worse outcomes. I would never adopt my foster kid as these kids are highly expensive in times of therapy. It would lead to us being homeless. His therapy alone costs about $300 a week. When he was younger add speech pathology and OT which added $250 a week. Now.. add to that all the lost work for being called to school to pick him up early because fostered and adopted kids have a lot of issues in school. ... and this is a kid without disabilities.... in a country with cheaper healthcare. I estimate he would cost $20,000 a year in healthcare costs and $15,000 in lost work. Since the foster care system covers healthcare costs I can afford the lost work.
In the USA, one of the biggest for foreign adoption, people don't realise they are adopting highly traumatised or damaged kids. They think it'll be a typical child they are raising so they aren't prepared for all the therapy and different parenting needed. As a result, 20,000 foreign adopted kids are abandoned... every year. These kids are then out of the foster care system and are often abused in other care arrangements. There was a good doco on it a few years ago.. by good.. I mean shocking. "Re-Homing: America's Shocking Trade in Unwanted Children."
@@samtat5873 您读不懂英文吧？
@@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa790 Is that Britain? I'm in Canada.
One thing that maybe should be pointed out, under the "one child" law, many people gave up girl babies to orphanages so they could try for a boy for their "one child", which meant that most of the adoptions out of China, unless by family members, were girl children who did not have much of a future back in the day. Yes, not everyone who adopted was a good person, but many of those children ended up with good futures where they really would not have had one in China. Also, still more likely to get boys adopted out of the system than girls ... traditions frequently over rule logic.
It’s a supply- demand issue too. A lot of Chinese women are highly educated and looking to have children and marrying later in life, I know among my friends and family a few women who can’t conceive and are looking to adopt. China has to respond to their own internal demand too.
If there was a giant demand for adopted children in China would they have started adopting off children all over the world?
China does not want its children to be adopted by homosexual couples in America and lured and sodomized into the homosexual lifestyle
This is not why older women are not marrying, cos if you read comments online from inside the mainland, they are very negative about older women? A lot of name callings too that goes on ? And many mother-in-laws are extremely extremely actually very picky too ??... Like really badly.... but these kind of things aren't written in English, so your average westerners are not aware of. Or maybe they do, but doesn't care... much. So, when these women marry outside of the country, or to a Westerner... they are also often criticised too. Either way, it is a no win game?... Some of the remaining people, also want a person a marriage in some villages... It's so so so crazy.. Something has to be done at some point in time...
I don’t think single women in China can adopt any children .
Besides , we don’t have the culture of habit of adoption. We would try everything to have our “own” child
If Chinese culture is changing to expand their notion of family to include children who aren’t biologically theirs, then that is great!
It's not though.
Chines culture didn't change for hundreds of years and it's not tomorrow they'll make me believe it will change.
what do you think? This is to combat aging population and low birth rate
Correct
i wouldnt let them adopt my gold fish. next thing i know my gold fish want to transition into a turtle.
Good! Some of the shady stuff that went down in the 80's and 90's with the adoption agencies should be avoided at all costs. A lot of the kids weren't even orphans.
What happened
Well, this stuff happened in Afrika and other Asian countries. China had one child policy, and families preferred boys. So girls were abandoned by their parents.
But you're right that those agencies are just legal trafficking.
It’s legal human trafficking. Many were kidnapped and given to strangers abroad where the unthinkable abuse happens behind closed doors.
@@ashutoshyadav7385 I don't know the parent commenter's reference exactly, but over in South Korea, decades ago the military dictatorship blocked many aunts/uncles/grandparents from keeping their young relatives because it was more profitable to export the children overseas to gullible Westerners with savior complexes. And the government never followed up in cases of bad adoptive parents. Australian news did a report earlier this year.
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What are the sources, otherwise you are talking piffle.
reminds of what happened in Russia in 2012 with infamous "Dima Yakovlev law"
Some people avoid IVF not just because of its price but also because of how it is not in alignment with Catholic faith and morals.
About 400,000 American children in foster care at any given time…
I mean honestly if Chinese children can find good homes within their birth country that is probably better for them. And in the US where most of the Chinese children went we have thousands of American children who need homes
Yeah, and they no need to face a racism. China now is not China 30 years ago. They're rich....me, when travel to China still amazes how fast they develop. No more cash. High technology...I feels so behind in tech when go there 😂
I'd have to disagree. In no way would I ever want to grow up in a society where the language I speak limits me to just 1 country and for that country to have the 996 as a business practice.
The reason a lot of people adopted abroad is because it's cheaper then adopting locally. If the USA wants more people to adopt locally they need to make changes.
@@Ajia_No_Envy996 is mostly tech firms. When I worked in china the hours are 9-5:30. Whereas in the uk where I work now it’s 9-6:00.
@@Ajia_No_Envyu mean grow up in usa where guns are common
After the Myka Stauffer fiasco, I don’t blame them.
I know some of the people love these kids, but some of them use the kids to make videos.
@@maryvsun youtube 'family' channel moment
There are far more natural birth parents that harm their own children than adoptive. This has more to do with keeping the girl children so that they can replenish China's flagging population. The men far out number the women now, and women there are not getting married or having children like in the past.
Sushilamah right you have a good point
Yes but it’s still sad at the same time for other people
I can't fault them on this. For Americans wishing to adopt, there are MANY THOUSANDS of kids IN THE US awaiting adoption. Probably in their own cities. Why are you going to China?? Adopt an older kid. Don't go for babies - or are you just in it because you want a cute baby??
They just want cute Chinese baby which they can't produce their own. I don't like this concept, is like human trafficking.
They just want cute Chinese baby which they can't produce their own. I don't like this concept, is like human trafficking.
I like the comparison with the designer handbag because some privileged communities look at "foreign" kids as collectibles to be adopted for prestige and then neglected or misused once the actual parenting kicks in.
A status symbol until it becomes too overwhelming to maintain.
100% true, especially with White people. That's why you see some wealthy or politically powerful people adopt Black or Brown kids
While I don't believe this was the case, but I have heard some refer to Angelina Jolie in this manner.
Didn’t agree with that comment as well
Some bio parents do that, too.
I can’t believe it took them this long
I wouldn't want Chinese kids to be adopted by homosexual couples in America and end up being sexually abused, sodomized, or lured into the homosexual lifestyle. Let American kids enjoy that.
@impactfully it was only 2010 that China surpass Japan gdp. So it took 10 years which is fast
I was just telling some coworkers, about how years ago, on trips to China, the flights were quiet. The flights back were filled with crying and screaming infants. You knew that they were recently adopted.
Family issue is private and hard to tell the results of adoption, so, we cannot say couple who adopt kid really do a good thing or bad thing
There are enough people in China who want to adopt a child. If you compare the requirements of a Chinese or a foreigner adopting a kid in China... the former has to prove he/she has sufficient living place, good incomes and so. My former supervisor in China adopted a girl (he and his wife have a son), and they are both professors in medical school. Think about the news this year that a couple in US slaved two kids they adopted for years.
Even so, you cannot force younger generations to have children. We have to accept that having own family nowadays is hard. Life is hard might as well dont bring anymore children.
Hey how are you doing?😊
Will there be local parents adopting those children?
Yes
The Adoption Law of China is too strict to allow legal adoption. There might be a few successful cases but never have I seen a family with an adopted child for the past 40 years living in China.
@@JL-ho5zt I know a family here with two adopted girls.
The people get used to one child policy. Most of my friends only have one child. There are also many people who won't get married or get married without planning to have kids. Preschools are struggling because there aren't as many kids as before.
Hey how are you doing?😊
... Spirit of... Huh..? Guys, politics is an adult problem. Adoption is about giving kids a home. There's no rule about them coming home, later. Don't deny kids a shot at a family, man.
If only it were that simple.
A lot of religious nuts adopt kids to spread their cults. It's not just about family. There is a big problem with child trafficking and vulnerable poor people being pressured or forced to give up their children so people with money can "buy" them. Adoption is a political issue. Look up mother and baby homes in both protestant and catholic cummunities and how women and children were held against their will and abused, the kidnapping of children during the Franco regime in Spain, or the child trafficking cases in Argentina during the dictatorship.
I can’t believe this happened! I never thought that I would see China join in with other countries like Guatemala, Ethiopia, and Russia who have banned international adoptions!
It is right that Russia banned foreign adoption, the main reason is the abnormality of the brains of Western society, which in nurseries and schools promotes the LGBT community, sex change in children, use blockers for the asexual system of children, sex change operations... go to hell with your sick fantasies... moral freaks and marginals, monsters who turn children into cripples, incapable of procreation, and even with sick brains... I don't care what you dream about there in the West, but in my great Russia there are and will be traditional Christian values and, above all, healthy and smart children... that's why China also banned adoption... stop torturing children...
They care nothing bout children. Just their selfish, deluded ideas about race and nationalism. And so the children suffer.
fact: our neighboring country did the same earlier.
El problema, es la natalidad. El gobierno, de China esta haciendo. Todo lo posible para estimular la natalidad
Actually, it's just because there are too many perverts in Europe and America, such as perverted godfathers who adopt children. They are just worried that the child will be abused
150,000 thousands got out and I’m one of them. So thankful!! (I feel so sad too because I feel like I’m missing a part of me and I think I have a sibling somewhere and I really want to meet him or her)
We've got a serious math problem in our society if people think 5,000 adoptions per year have any impact on a 1.4 billion population.
Edit: literally had to pull up Excel to do the calculation since the calculator didn't like the small number. That's 0.056% of the total births (rounding would make it 0.1%).
China
But then if you also did the math and said that each one of those 5,000 children go on to have 2.4 children each, after 7 generations these 5,000 kids will have turned into 1 millions kids.
You misunderstand the math and value system behind this entirely. 5,000 is a lot of children when you're below replacement rate in births. More importantly, when most families are having just one child, then 5,000 is a lot to spare, no matter how big the country is.
Are you calculating 1.4 billions people mating at the same time? lol. That include 70's + years old grandma. China has one of the oldest population in the world.
@@bigfisher4354 At the present birth rate in China (1.7%) in 7 generations it is expected to have shrunk by ~75%. In 3 generations it is projected to be half of what it is today. No nation in the last 50 years has reversed population decline. So much for those extra million kids.
Met a few Chinese kids raised by US parents who have no relation to China. Almost all the parents (according to them) are fundamentalist Christians. I'm not sure if this new policy is good. But the old policy didn't really do a good job vetting the people who wanted to adopt kids.
So basically they were white washed Asians?
what is the need for vetting when money speaks louder than personality.
Honestly,that obsession of some western christians with asians and african children scares me. They surely must think those kids are clean sheets of paper they can freely write their cosmovisions. It's some kind of colonialist mentality.
the fundamentalist Christians were very strange definitely ;)
Those kids would be more messed up with woke/rainbow adoptive parents.
If you know what happened to Asunta Basterra then you would realize that Chinese government is making the correct decision.
Same with Myka Stauffer rehoming her autistic kid from China
Totalmente
@@cristoferdelacruzhiraldo los padres de Asunta no sabían nada de salud mental y no la apoyaban. La familia la empujó tanto.
Yes
Kabayvlev
Thay running out of young people to take care of older people. Not enough young people to take care of older retirees. I heard u can retire at age 55 in china.
Actually, it's just because there are too many perverts in Europe and America, such as perverted godfathers who adopt children. They are just worried that the child will be abused
El asunto, del cuidado de los anciano. En par de años seran robot. Que los atenderan, ya muchas startup de robot China. Ya estan trabajando para fabricar robot en mas para el cuidado de los ancianos. Tambien la industria de China, de esta robotizando. De manera bestial.
I'm Chinese, female can retire at age 55,and male at age 60
We used to be able to retire at 55 here in the US, Not anymore. It was a bad plan to begin with, how could they have thought they'd keep up birthrates if they're weren't enough females.
有的女性可以50岁退休，我就是今年50岁退休。
Good interview.
Demographics is definitely a major reason for this, yet probably not the only reason.
Some people in China are very worried about China's declining population growth, even though it still has a massive population, comparatively. There has been a ramping up of various efforts to encourage locals to have more children, unlike in the past.
There are also economic (etc) reasons too.
China is a sovereign country. There's nothing wrong with China implementing this policy.
It took a friend 5 yrs to adopt her daughter from China
why steal other peoples children when you can have your own!
So what!
It's not her daughter
Hands down some of the stupidest replies in this comment thread I have ever seen.
@bass_not_bombs7483
You have a Ukraine PFP which is the child trafficking hub of Europe and the majority go to people with insidious motives...
How cruel! It's bad enough that they leave their children in dumps and train stations to be abandoned. They can't be adopted after 13 and at 18 cast out of orphanage. Bullsh*t my son was not allowed to be adopted because paperwork took past his 13th birthday and he had a heart problem and they did NOT care for him. I have lost contact years ago and have no idea if he survived.
That's usa . Everything u described in usa
He’s not your son if the adoption wasn’t finalized.
i hope they set up good systems in place to support these orphans. overall i hope this is a good thing. as a first gen chinese american, i know many happy and successful chinese adoptees. but i also know many who got adopted into evangelical savior type communities, growing up in an environment of shame, confusion, and isolation. not to mention those who get adopted into downright bad families and end up absd and on the streets… ironically in far worse situations than had they just stayed in their home country.
Yes! People don't realise that just because someone is taken from somewhere they are automatically safe. It's the same in the foster care sector. I have had as many kids who have been abused in foster care come through my house than have been abused by their family. Half of kids in juvenile detention are from foster care... Says a lot about how good foster care works.
China is doing much better now and care of orphans is not a problem.
They now have a shortage of people, like all developed nations, their birth rates are falling. This is a direct response to this. I can't blame them.
Fun fact, China is not a developed country per se yet.
Saying that is kinda like saying the south part of the USA is not developed per se. It's not hustle bustle everywhere and some of the places are impoverished. That doesn't mean it isn't a developed country though.
China is a country with the highest orphans in the world. I’ve seen the videos of Chinese Orphans In the 90s. It made me sick. My cousin is adopted and she helped me learn Chinese, and to cook from her culture and have seen her grandparents on zoom. As a family we respect her background. She isn’t a handbag, she is my family.
Wrong. India has the most orphans with over 20 million while China has 8 million
Why dont americans adopt american children? There are so many US kids that are not adopted but americans rather choose to adopt some chinese kid...
Either a they're Chinese/SEA themselves or they prefer to adopt from poorer countries
The majority are low IQ and of sub Saharan descent.
It's usually people who can't adopt in their own countries using loopholes which is worrying in terms of welfare
Adoption in the US is nightmare.
The process is very long and expensive.
It takes 2 years.
There are many interviews.
And even after the child is legally adopted the mother has 1 year to change her mind and ask for her child back, even after you spent so much money in the adoption process.
Who wants to go through that?
Because they delude themselves to think that they win virtue points, "celebrity," and holier-than-thou status for being so magnanimous as to adopt a child from another culture, particularly one that predominantly manifests different phenome expressions, so that the difference in appearance between parent and child is abundantly noticeable to everyone.
IMHO if one child is adopted that would also be good,IMHO failings of a ONE child per couple policy.
There's a lot of talk about China's production overcapacity these days, but that doesn't seem to extend to babies.
There is so much poverty there. They're not helping themselves or their children. I'm surprised so few children were adopted over thirty years. That's like a drop in the bucket compared to the population of China. How will this actually help them?
It is very weird for someone to want to adopt someone from a different culture.
I think it is absolutely bad news for the orphans in China. In Chinese culture we really emphasize the blood relationships. Only the couples could give birth to babies will adopt.
U think .... that's a joke 😆
They just wanted to keep people as much as possible lol
Because of the trend of falling birthrate in Asia
*young people. They are happy “letting go” of the old people
@@appleish5043 nah, chinese actually care about theyre elderly, unlike yall who let your grandparents rot in senior homes.
@@johnc1873 Chinese people in general, yes they do, but Mainlanders are different story all throughout the nation though. Many have become Unfilial and abandoned their elderly parent's due to pressure of society, some even go as far as leaving them in parks like people abandoning their dogs. The Mainland is rapidly changing into something not very Chinese anymore, if you had to compare it to other Chinese communities outside of China.
@@johnc1873 lol, not saying the usual Chinese don’t, I’m saying your government doesn’t 😒 dumb dumb 🤦♀️ oh btw, quite a number of seniors chose to be in the retirement home themselves 😒 my mother-in-law is dead set on that, because her mother was a strong, independent woman who also chose the retirement home for herself 🤷♀️ different culture, dumb ass 😒
This report comes across as if a child is some sort of an asset you can purchase. I can imagine how it must impact the child growing up with this experience. Being abandoned first, then 'sold' (to the otherside of the world), society telling them having to be grateful to have been saved & being the 'lucky' one to end up in a rich country.
Well throughout history that is exactly how they’ve been looked upon. And they are assets. And people are willing to spend tens of thousands on fertility treatments just to have a child.
That reality is why China is stopping the practice.
@@alanfriesen9837not necessarily. The reality might be that the country realizes it needs the extra children to take care of the rest of the population when they get older.
@@ronica2623 China is actually more concerned with getting the children that already exist to not abandon their elders. In some jurisdictions you can be fined if you don't visit your parents once in a while.
So yes, the government is concerned about filial relationships going forward, but it's not so much about economics. As automation gets increasingly advanced it's going to be more and more difficult to keep everybody working anyway. Taking care of an aging population isn't going to be answered by increasing the number of children; it will have to be based on altering the resource distribution models.
@@alanfriesen9837 we are talking about economics. Children take care of their parents so that the government doesn’t have to. Extra children take care of those who do and don’t have children in indirect ways so that the government doesn’t have to. Extra children also needed in industry (ok, for now). That’s your resource distribution model in simplistic terms.
I was wondering if and when they would do this. Especially with their downturn of people having their own children and the aging population. I do hope that the children fair well with this new policy though
Took long enough.
I don’t agree with what he said about people adopting Chinese children like showing off a designer handbag ‼️ without Chinese children being adopted by people in whatever country where would they be in a orphanage until they are old enough to kicked out with nowhere to go and no family that they know of⁉️ that statement was insulting to all the parent’s who have adopted Chinese children and gave them a good education and a good home environment to be in‼️ 🤨
Well, why should you adopt foreign born kids when all western countries have foster care systems with kids screaming for people to take them. Here in Australia we have such a shortage they are putting kids in hotels with rotating staff. In Australia we have group homes where there is a legally mandated 4 to a group home... They have kids on mattresses on the floor now so 5-6 kids per group home. All it took to break the system was a single homeless shelter to be closed.
We need foster carers... but... people want their ideal family so they skip over 'broken' kids that are just down the road.
What they don't realise is that adoptive kids can also have similar issues. Hence why in the USA alone they abandone 20,000 foreign adopted kids a year... according to the doco "Rehoming: America's Trade in Unwanted Children."
He's a CCP shill.
This report is super biased, they have zero knowledge about the conditions in a typical children’s home in China. Horrible! To make it worse, Private ones were forced to close down since COVID.
This report is super biased, they have zero knowledge about the conditions in a typical children’s home in China. Horrible! To make it worse, Private ones were forced to close down since COVID.
A good education? A good home environment? I don’t hear you say a loving family.
In Canada, Indigenous children overpopulate the foster system and those kids deserve loving families and the prospective Canadian parents should focus their eyes there verses children across the world.
Reasons why Western adoptive parents prefer Chinese ophan is because many were abandoned due to financial hardship and not drugs/alcohol abused or forcelly taken away from criminal parents by the legal system. Chinese kids are disciplined, smart and well-behaved. You may ends up having a future computer scientist or engineer.
😂😂😂 r u stereotyping?
@@ankundamwebembezi6358It's called being *Selective.* Some people only want to adopt "special needs" children, or kids that share similar ethnicity backgrounds
Yes.. foster kids are challenging but... so are adoptive kids. There are so many books on helping kids who have been adopted and they are eerily similar to the books about foster kids. In fact, as a foster carer I spend a lot of time reading adoption books and watching adoption videos because the issues are the same.
20,000 adopted kids a year are abandoned in the USA.... This is because people adopt them not knowing how difficult they will be or the level of disability. Look it up. "Rehoming: The trade in America's Unwanted Children."
Don’t block children to have better life than orphan homes 😢
Don’t allow Western abusers to slip through the cracks!
They will have better lives but in their own country without losing their roots. It’s much better.
Unfortunately the majority of adopted children that go to America are sold as sex slaves 😢
Wow! My husband and I almost started an international adoption from China. We were warned that adoptions from China were stalling for unknown reasons. Until a reason was given, we were advised to seek an adoption elsewhere. How sad though. The society has not changed--your family determines who you marry, if you marry at all. Orphans will be considered bottom of the barrel there, especially those with special needs.
Declining birth rates might be a reason just like South korea and Japan
Respect yo!
They have enough plants around the world plus the massive ones they letting flood in.
They got sick of Angelina Jolie being called "mommy" everytime she appeared on screen.
So sad. They are adorable and smart.
They deserve food and shelters.
😅You should travel to China
@@mikeyL-os5cf I’ve been there.
It’s a collapsing communist country.
LOL, it is illegal to get an education in your country, China is much richer than your country now😂😂😂
@@user-eo3pt7uh2m My dogs know china is collapsing.
Chinese people live better than Americans now. In cheaper price.
I wonder how this is going to go. I don't disagree with it but it does restrict some freedom that I'm sure some people appreciate.
The country has over a billion people, I don't see how a declining population is a bad thing. They've been having to buy much of their food from other countries for decades now.
Because the aging population will put a strain on health care and economy! No longer bringing in money, working or paying tax, AND getting their pension.
Just imagine! China put the most absurd rules in play to combat growing population... only one kid per family( for many years)!!! So that decline must be very sharp!
Less young people to work pay taxes for older people
It's a really serious issue. The more old people you have in comparison to working people, the more your economy is under strain. Western countries deal with this by having insanely efficient and productive workers, and we're still struggling. China doesn't have those advantages yet - it could cause massive problems for them.
NAH @@isaacdalziel5772
Imagine having 50,000 elderly to 20,000 young people in a country and as an economy. Those 20000 will have to earn enough to support an extra 30000 who will keep burning through more resources than they bring in because people live 30 years longer than they did in the past.
No generation before now had to deal with a falling population mixed with an ageing population living this long. Living past sixty was a feat a hundred years ago.
Adopt from other places in the world. There's children in Africa, Southeast Asia, Latin America etc.
China was hotspot back in the day because their orphanage's consist of higher numbers of healthier children, compared to the countries that you listed.
Foreign adoption leads to kidnapping and strong-arming vulnerable families. Most of the adopters are probably unaware of this, either because they can't see or because they don't want to look. There is also a tendency for adopters to tell the children that they were unwanted because it makes them feel better, even though it traumatizes the kids.
@@alanfriesen9837that’s happened in Uganda when poor parents thought they were sending kids to a boarding school and it turned out to be a scam when a U.S. couple adopted a young girl and once she learned English she let her American adopted parents know the truth. The couple reported to the state department and they opened an investigation only to find out similar cases. The kids were reunited with their families and the “school “ shutdown by the Ugandan government.
South East Asia - They used to buy kids off parents to put in orphanages. Foreign tourists would then pay to come over to do charity work in these orphanages. The people coming over weren't child abuses or anything but there was money to be made in the adoption trade. It was a whole industry and probably still is.
Yer but how else can you ensure it will be good at maths?
Good for the People's Republic of CHINA
Their moronic one child law screwed them for a generation.
That moronic 1 child policy turned them from one of the poorest countries in 1976 in the world into the richest country in the world by Purchasing Power parity today.
Japan, Singapore, Italy, Spain and South Korea never had a 1 child policy but they are all facing demographic challenges even worse than China.
That's not what screwed them. The one child policy was actually a good initiative to curb population growth. What was consequential though was parents prizing boys over girls and actively aborting female fetuses as a result. Blame the culture, not the program.
@@oisinquinn9469 Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Italy, Spain, Singapore and many other countries and regions didn't have a one child policy and yet they are facing far worse demographic crisis than China is facing. So what is your point?
@@danwelterweight4137Because they didn't have a redneck Mao encouraging their population to have as many children as possible.
And yet China grows faster than any moronic Neo Liberal Western country.
Poor kids having no choice but to grow up in the US. I was taken from the UK to the US as a young child and immediately moved permanently to Spain upon graduating from university in California 25 years ago.
have you denounced your US citizenship?
@@mb6913 have no reason too. It's an asset
Why didn’t you immigrate to China?
@@jayclarke6671you’re an angry far left hypocrite.
@@xeero24not enjoying the US is far left? People like you shouldn't vote 🤣
I don’t think they have eradicated poverty. But I do hope they will take care of their own.
One child plus is born in China EVERY SECOND! @BBC AD @this expert (?) - the one child policy was abolished on 1st September 2016! Surely, everyone knows this?
You were ALW AYS allowed to have more than one child. Indeed, people in the countryside continued to have 1+ children but they were taxed! And we all know that, we Chinese, are exceptionally good at mathematics! We got used to having only child in the city - cheaper housing, access to subsidies, not having to pay for the schooling of a 2nd child, etc.
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So all the people living in the country side could afford to pay these “taxes”?
That man is such a liar. The orphanages are funded by donations made from families who adopt internationally. The director of the orphanage was so relieved when we made our donation. He said it would be enough to feed the children for over a year. The government does not fund these facilities. And when filling out our paperwork, the government worker we talked to thanked us for adopting our son because if he stayed in China, there was a 95% chance he would not be adopted. This was in 2019, not decades ago. The economy is collapsing in China. Jobs are disappearing. People are losing their life savings in the housing market. They will not suddenly want to adopt children unrelated to them. What lies.
What is the actual reason for this? So few children in China and that makes them so precious. Thus, they should not be transferred to other countries for adoptions as that will reduce further the number of children in China.
The real reason is that China is experiencing a low birth rate, and that is going to negatively affect their economy in about 20 years.
@@d.n.8919 The real reason is that foreign adoption has been a conduit for human trafficking that encouraged kidnappings and unscrupulous pressure on poor families with children in need of medical attention. Countries that can take care of their children don't permit them to be adopted overseas. China is now in a position to take care of their children.
This is a disgrace!
Their country their rules
Personally I’ve only seen a few who actually teach their kids about their home country and language
I think it’s important that if u adopt a child from another country, race, ethnic group, that u have to make sure they know their language and culture it’s important
I do think China may have done this because they need a large workforce in their lower jobs like factories and such and ppl aren’t having babies much anymore (for obvious reasons)
So I do understand the change
However the issue is that this means there will be lots of disabled and older kids who won’t have a chance at a family which is sad
I think they should allow children with disabilities to still be adoptable because most Chinese won’t adopt these kids because the costs for medical care associated with them
I’m sure their r lots of lovely Chinese ppl who care for the disabled but there’s only so much space and they need livelong care which isn’t really easy to do
Either way their country their rules but I do think ppl need to focus on what’s best for the kids
I just hope that any pending adoptions aren’t canceled
China’s demographic problems are not the ones European countries are experiencing. At least, China, as a completely industrialized economy, will still have the second largest culturally unified population in the world even if the country reduces its population by half. The major issue of China’s demographics literally is how to smoothly and healthily transition and transform its society and economy over next ~30 years, at the time all its citizens born before ~1955-1965 pass away.
no enough children in China now. few couples want more than one kid, still.
👍 Good. China should take care of their own children and population within their own country.
Really regretting it aren't you now...
How many Chinese babies been adopted to Brazil now like Norwegian?
I think it is hard to grow up as an orphan in the US (in this political climate where everything and anything is blamed on China; in such a different culture and with such q crazy US government) without developing mental problems.
How many adopted parents I wonder were told the truth about the child's health and mental issues before they adopted?
Unfortunately American men were adopting them for unnatural reasons
what spirit
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I feel bad for the children in China so the adoptions was a great thing for them. ..BUT now maybe people will adopt from their own country!!!!
Why don't you feel bad also in USA promoting lgbtq and allowing to teach in school about LGBTqQ for children later they become gay and lesbian childless and also encouraging people to be childless.
This just seems evil no?
No, if they can support those adoptions domestically now. Remember, China is vastly different now than it was 30 years ago. They discussed this in the news report.
it is evil to steal children from other nations under the guise of “adoption”. children should be looked after by their native people. would you like it if a very different people took your children away from you!
No, it makes sense! They already have demographic issues of having too many old people but not enough younger generation; and they have economic ability to take care of those orphans.
maybe they appear on Lilita island, now that is evil.
No.
The adoption industry is a group of grotesque profiteers where the babies often end up in the sex industry in pornography for paedophiles.
If you cannot have children, adopt FROM YOUR OWN DAMN COUNTRY.
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This is for the good of these unfortunate children !
They realised there most smartest and most. Strong. Is. In ither countires
Shouldn't it be the parents decision?
I don’t think you commenter knows much about adoption in China.
China has had a large market who want to adopt. Unfortunately the money stream for adoptable children, has been Western countries, which has mean that Chinese couples have historically been excluded. However, the stream of children trafficked from SE Asian countries that border China and theft and trafficking of children within China have met that demand whist official orphanages profited hugely by exclusively dealing with international adopters. That financial incentive unfortunately created a demand for baby girls as Western belief systems have persisted that it is the Chinese get rid of girls in the hope of having a boy, so Western demand is for girls. This fuels corrupt systems in China in procuring girls to me the specific demand. Some of these practices involve corrupt official demanding huge sums of money (more than the official penalty rates) from parents who broke the one child policy, who get their money from either the parents who will find a way to pay, or from orphanages who will pay child finders (where the cost ultimately gets paid by the massive “donations” expected of Western adopters to orphanages).
These systems start to break down when the one child policy ended, greater awareness in the international adoption community of the corrupt practices, the smashing if child trafficking rings that fuel both internal Chinese adoption, but also slave labour, and trafficking of children into China, and of course the disruption of the pandemic in terms of physically, and of backlash against China.
Another dynamic that probably contributed to the decision is gender skew within the country. This has also contributed to trafficked girls within China to procure and raise girls for the role purpose of becoming brides in places where the skew is severe and parents want to ensure their son will have a bride.
It’s not healthy for China to export children when it leaves a vacuum that is filled with illegal trafficking.
This complex system your commenter seems entirely naive about.
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Well, there goes my chance of adopting a fire horse girl.
Poor kids.
who knew the authoritarian regime would have fucked up there country with poorly thought out policy and is now tryng to fix the problem with poorly thought out policy i just hope they look after those kids
Fucked up their country? China lifted more than 800 million of their population out of poverty in 4 decades. The policy was very well thought out.
Poorly thought out policy is not exclusive domain of authoritarian regimes
It wouldn't have been a poorly thought out policy as China at that time was a third world country and people were starving. The government didn't have the resources or supply chains it does now so wasn't able to provide for the people.
As the country's managed to develop, especially the opportunities for women to be independent and educated has risen so they tend to have busier lives and spend their time with pets rather than relationships and children.
wrong: google worlds' most eenhouse gas emitting country
@@jctai100 But they do seem to excel at it.
They have NOT eradicated extreme poverty. Jesus, one only has to have a set of eyes and ears and access to information
Yea why dont we use our ears and eyes, shall we? Take a look at the data and take a look at the society in both China and India and you will have your answer
I live here in China and yes the people who were worse off have been helped. The extreme third-world type of poverty is gone. I'm not saying that everything is perfect, but the improvement in ordinary people's lives has been dramatic.
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So winnie the poo is not available for adoption now?
Not this #£"@ again! Winnie the Pooh was never banned in China. That was a White Western supremacist myth .
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It's not really zero, seem like they only allowed a family with blood relatives to adopt. Why these Western family don't go adopt Indian baby.... there's a lot of babies right now. Baby in China now are treasure. Especially a girl.
China has to worry about their population because 600 million ageing people will die soon and they need to saved some youngers generation.
This is a right step since China is able to protect her generations.
Trust Americans with pandas but not the kids?
given what U$ is doing to kids in Gaza, I think the world should be suspicious of western intent.
Americans can't be trusted to raise their own children
Yeah no one should trust usa with anything
China can afford to adopt USA children now😅
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He finally realized decades of limiting children left him with more old subjects than young, and decided not enough would be praising him and feeding his ego in the near future, so now we're keeping all our kids since we now decided we don't need some place to put the children and we'll raise them ourselves.
It's because the low birth rate in China!
Really BBC, why do the translators try to match the accent of the nationality concerned? I am an Indian and I don't really care how you modulate voices (esp. for the chinese) based on their race or nationality. It's borderline insulting! 😊
They fear that there are no one serve the priviledged
有毛病吧 ！whats wrong with you?!
@@wenshu4547 he means the wall street
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They should’ve been stopped that at least it wasn’t that many