A beautiful story. The birth mothers wail when she meet her daughter was so real. So happy for the birth parents. The end of all their suffering for so many years.
Her parents really loved her and had no choice but to give her up. Looking at their actions and commitment to try to meet her later was touching. The parents showing up and waiting on the date they said on the bridge in the hopes of a chance to reunite with her.
She looks very much like her birth mom ! Glad that both parents managed to correspond & arranged to meet up. Best of all her birth parents dont have to ever wonder & feel ashamed. God paved the both for her US parents & birth parents
The Chinese parents seem to have a bond with the girl, yet the girl clearly doesn't have the same bond with them looking lost. Adoption often blows a huge emotional hole in parents and kids.
She doesn't know the language which is a huge barrier and that might be some of the issues. She will have to learn them and get to know them to develop a bond.😢
When the mom broke down I broke down Its hard to have to let your child go. Laws in this world are messed tf up but its a happy moment to see she was able to meet her birth parents💖💖💖.
Sometimes, Chinese parents did not violate China's "One Child" policy, but they gave up their daughter because they treated their son better than daughter.
They choose males over females because of cultural belief that male children will i think be the one responsible to take care of the rest of the family when parents grow old while the females will leave when they marry. To have another child in china i guess they will have to pay another $100k per extra child or they will be forced to give them up for adoption or in foster care in china and just visit them often.
True. A lot of baby girls adopted, killed or died in the streets because they want a son so their family line and name can carry on. If they have a girl, they believe their line ends there. But this girl's family didn't give her up for adoption because she's a girl. She was their second child and they had no choice and it is heart breaking.
A heart wrenching story - Americans’ companion and big hearts inspire respect from the world. The adoptive parents are veritable angels, sent to look after the little girl left in a market.
The Pohlers knew who her birth parents were for TEN (10) years, and didn't tell their adopted daughter, nor did they prepare her with Chinese classes? How selfish!
I agree very selfish. I don't blame the Chinese parents, because back then having more than one child was illegal. They would have been imprisoned if they tried to keep her.
Are you insane? She's lucky she wasn't aborted. Under the one child policy, the Chinese would allow a woman to give birth and then drown the newborn in a bucket of water. You're a resentful bigot.
Im glad they told her .... I wish they wouldve pushed more education about her culture. Even just language would have helped her have a connection with them. her adoptive parents must have been afraid.
i feel this becouse my dad left me at 10 months old all ways wanted to know my father familey i was rased with the ramoses my moms side but allthis time i never got to meet my familey esparzaand i chismas wish was that more children be adopted out of orfanages
@@buddhasattva if you watched the documentary you would see that the girl was not happy her parents didn't tell her. She said she understands her parents reasoning but it's flawed reasoning. Also the parent said it themselves they didn't tell her because they were afraid to lose her. So put the dots together
@@travisl9201 also if you adopt a child they are legally yours until the age of 18 so don't know what you are talking about. If you pay another family to care for their child then you really are caring for a child that is not yours
I don't wanna be in the same situation because then it'd create a problem as whom should I live with now? My adoptive parents who loved me and raised me all these years? Or my biological parents who gave birth to me? (BTW I'm adopted so this can happen to me lol)
Hazel Rachel she is an adult. She lives on her own in the US. She only knows English, is American, and stays in America for college last I saw. But she is in contact with both sets of parents and visits her Chinese parents. You have to relinquish your American citizenship to become a Chinese citizen, which I doubt she did as she will not be able to feed herself in China without knowing the language. It’s a really good story as both sets of parents get along, and she loves both sets. The birth parents were thanking her adoptive parents in the documentary. I actually think it was a good idea they told her about her birth parents after her teenage years. Teens can get rebellious and some run away from home. But as an independent adult she is able to handle the info better.
Gliding Bird that's really good that the parents are getting along. My biological parents are from India and I'm from America. What's the documentary called btw?
Hazel Rachel hello, it is called met me on the bridge it is on TH-cam. Good luck to you. I’m just happy you have good adoptive parents. You never know what/who you are going to find when you look for your biological parents. I knew a person who found her bio mother who did not accept her made her sad after spending all time looking. as her mother had brief relationship w a guy that didn’t work out. But told her who her bio father was who was accepting / she is in good terms with her biological father and she found that she had siblings. Some are warm others were cold towards her. Mixed bag.
绝对是世事所迫，我见过德国有些家长收养了小孩到十几岁，亲生父母来要可能是土耳其农村还是更求的国家，小孩根本不愿意要亲生父母因为要和他们回国，所有的一切都是经济所迫，当时中国穷，父母处理不当但也是没办法，如果中国还一直穷饥荒人口政策紧估计这小孩也不愿多搭理最多给此钱，不会承认自己是chinese ，她现在是从white到chinese american估计以后就是american chinese
Caught in a rigid “one child policy” but still, abandoning a kid in a public place is soo unthinkable and that must be soo heartbreaking for the parents... having no child yet, i couldn’t imagine doing that to my nieces or nephews. i’d probably raise them in a cave or somewhere😂...tsk..Chinese ... 😭😂
That's stupid! Then let them alone in an orphanage? I had a college from high school who was adopted as a baby. She met her birth mother at 14-15 years old. She also has a half-sister. But she told me that she only loves her adopted parents. She doesn't like her birth mother. She told me she hates her. She has every right to feel any positive or negative feelings towards her biological mother.
I don’t think they want her to live with them :/ they put her into adoption for their own reason. Adoption kid don’t go back with their biological parents, they stick with their adopted parents
it’s not a matter of being selfish, plus i doubt kati would even want to live with her birth parents. it’s a different dynamic, they’re more of a symbol in her life rather than the people who raised her. i cant speak for all but this is how i feel being an 18 year old growing up in the us with an american family who adopted me from china. i was abandoned because of the same reasons. she doesn’t see her birth parents as “parents” nor would she probably give up her life as she knows to start over in a foreign country.
She's too far gone as an American to ever want to assimilate back to a fully Chinese life and I doubt she wants that either. Her adoptive family was there her whole life and gave her the life that she otherwise wouldn't have. Those are her true parents. Birth parents don't mean anything if you're not the ones raising your kid.
She is so lucky that her parents put her in adoption, so many kids in China orphanage that so unlucky and we don’t know what happened to them in the hands of Xi JINPING communist government. I DONT SEE SO MUCH EMOTION TO HER WHEN SHE SEES HER BIRTH PARENTS. SHE SHOULD BE THANKFUL TO HER BIRTH PARENTS, FOR ALL THE HARDSHIP OF GIVING HER UP FOR SURVIVAL AND BETTER LIFE.
"A family one's lost has been found " Said Michelle MILLER, the journalist! LØL! this girl has already found a family since she was a baby : the one who adopted her!!! Its insulting for parents who adopted kids!
If their birth parents were smart, they should have given birth to her in a different county. My Aunt and Uncle have 2 children that were born in China, but one of them was born in a different county where they lived. That was how my Aunt and Uncle got away with it.
HsingSun It was illegal to keep her, they had no choice. If they kept her, they would have been arrested and she would she ended up in an orphanage anyway. Research before you type.
Galaxy Cat you need to do some research. Her parents would have lost their jobs, their pensions, faced a huge fine, and perhaps their state provided housing but they would not have gone to jail. I have several Chinese friend who did just that rather than leave their children to be found. And before you argue with me about this I lived in China for seven years , adopted two, and volunteered at the Chinese orphanages when they were flooded with girls.
@@juliataylor8063 My son is Chinese, adopted. My step family are Asian. We all know about the one child policy and boys being more important in Chinese culture, although among the younger generation it is changing. There are many customs and traditions that are not nice and in many cases inhumane, thankfully, they will probably die out in the future. My step Asian family, still have the same thought process as they did when they left China and Burma with regards to skin color, and their ideal beauty, and are not at all hesitant to say it.
What a terrible (her REAL parents) left your 5 yo kid in the street like that. I got lost when I was 5 and am still remember how frightened I felt at the time. Someone took me to police station and my Dad mom got me out within 30 mins. Was SO scared. Am now mid 50.
By appearance and demeanor, the China-grown sister looked much classier, several notches up the social-economical ladder. The American-raised one looked too "street" in comparison.
Literally the only difference is the Chinese raised sister has a lighter skin-tone - and likely because in China fair skin is valued and she's taken great measure to keep out of the sun, and in the west a lot of people want a tan and so the American raised sister didn't care to stay out of the sun. So basically you're saying that a tanned skintone makes her "street".
Your comment on the rating,which is more classier.n which is ' street' is not nice. no doubt that the adoptive parents did not tell her earlier, could have their own reasons, still this adoptive parents had loved and cared for her. Some credit should be given to them. I see several comments that they are selfish. Why so one sided. How about the love n affection they had rendered in bringing her up.
A beautiful story. The birth mothers wail when she meet her daughter was so real. So happy for the birth parents. The end of all their suffering for so many years.
Her parents really loved her and had no choice but to give her up. Looking at their actions and commitment to try to meet her later was touching. The parents showing up and waiting on the date they said on the bridge in the hopes of a chance to reunite with her.
I did not under how much parents care about their children and why they sacrifice them for their children until one day I became a parent.
It is her foster parents that raised her or else she would had died when her biological parents gave her away
I was overwhelmed n.cried, when her mother ran n hug her. So emotional, so loved by her birth mother.
She looks very much like her birth mom ! Glad that both parents managed to correspond & arranged to meet up. Best of all her birth parents dont have to ever wonder & feel ashamed. God paved the both for her US parents & birth parents
She is the most beautiful lady I have seen she is gorgeous . Glad she found her biological parents. 🇬🇧🇬🇧❤️❤️
The Chinese parents seem to have a bond with the girl, yet the girl clearly doesn't have the same bond with them looking lost.
Adoption often blows a huge emotional hole in parents and kids.
Yeah I mean like its exactly what you would expect since children at that young of an age don't seem to remember things.
She doesn't know the language which is a huge barrier and that might be some of the issues. She will have to learn them and get to know them to develop a bond.😢
When the mom broke down I broke down Its hard to have to let your child go. Laws in this world are messed tf up but its a happy moment to see she was able to meet her birth parents💖💖💖.
It is good that she knows both families.
Sometimes, Chinese parents did not violate China's "One Child" policy, but they gave up their daughter because they treated their son better than daughter.
They choose males over females because of cultural belief that male children will i think be the one responsible to take care of the rest of the family when parents grow old while the females will leave when they marry. To have another child in china i guess they will have to pay another $100k per extra child or they will be forced to give them up for adoption or in foster care in china and just visit them often.
@@yzarcmw7794 They choose male to carry on the family name.
Chinese people
Love baby boy
A lot,but naturally.
Like we Pakistani
@@billsmith9610 There is no boy is this family
True. A lot of baby girls adopted, killed or died in the streets because they want a son so their family line and name can carry on. If they have a girl, they believe their line ends there. But this girl's family didn't give her up for adoption because she's a girl. She was their second child and they had no choice and it is heart breaking.
This story always breaks my heart. Greetings from India.
at 1:44 she was such a cutie holding the pumpkin !!!!! hahahahahah so cute
THIS IS AMAZING
Her adoptive parents should have been honest & open with her
So VERY VERY happy for her birth parents!!!!
A heart wrenching story - Americans’ companion and big hearts inspire respect from the world. The adoptive parents are veritable angels, sent to look after the little girl left in a market.
Nah if you watch another documentary they kind of suck. They knew about the birth parents but didn’t tell her
Nothing is comparable to the love of parents for their Child🙏🏽
The Pohlers knew who her birth parents were for TEN (10) years, and didn't tell their adopted daughter, nor did they prepare her with Chinese classes? How selfish!
Jeffrey Tong how selfish of her real parents to abandon her...
They felt cornered and had no choice. Notice with red envelopes - they never forgot her!
I agree very selfish. I don't blame the Chinese parents, because back then having more than one child was illegal. They would have been imprisoned if they tried to keep her.
I think both pair of parents did what was prudent given the circumstances. Kati is very lucky, very blessed.
Are you insane? She's lucky she wasn't aborted. Under the one child policy, the Chinese would allow a woman to give birth and then drown the newborn in a bucket of water. You're a resentful bigot.
I know the pain,, when you feel like parents are leaving you forever,,,,, (when they are admitted in hospital)
Respect to USA family they treated girl as they own good jobs
Im glad they told her .... I wish they wouldve pushed more education about her culture. Even just language would have helped her have a connection with them. her adoptive parents must have been afraid.
Well some don’t even care about it tho
Thank to USA parent for raising her she is so lucky 2 have adopted parents who love her unconditionally n never gaveup to raise her ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
It's disgusting that they waited until she was 20. When she turned 18 she should have searched for them.
damn 🥲 these reunions always get me! 😢😢😢❤❤❤ the birth parents are soooo happy 🥰🥰🥰
Heart warming story indeed.
How often do they visit each other?
I feel so happy
I just started my search and I hope I can find my parents
I wish you luck. But don't let it burden and strain you emotionally whatever the outcome.
They're somewhere in China
I’m so happy for them I wish this was me tho I’m adopted too from China
What do you mean your adopted from China?
@@octobersky9639 How is that confusing?
I was adopted from South Korea
It’s only natural to want to seek your roots, glad this is a happy story
LOVE THIS.
Is there an update?
I wonder how she felt about it.
I really want to know her insta just to see how she has grown
Damn, i really want to go back to korea to meet my birth parents :(
awww :)) i wonder if she planned to keep in touch with her birth parents
She does
So beautiful story Katie! We are our own race! Adoptees!
If they didn't tell her until she was 20, couldn't she have wondered why she was Asian when her parents were white earlier in life and asked them?
She did, but her mother was afraid of losing her and couldn't decide when to tell her.
This was a great adoption story
Chinese and Indian parents treat sons better than daughters.
Hii iam indian really this video make me crying 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
i feel this becouse my dad left me at 10 months old all ways wanted to know my father familey i was rased with the ramoses my moms side but allthis time i never got to meet my familey esparzaand i chismas wish was that more children be adopted out of orfanages
Wow. ❤
Very sad story of Katie Life
I saw the bbc docu on this. The adopted parents didn't tell her because they thought they would lose her which is a little selfish on their part.
Caring for a child that isn't yours is selfish? They had children of their own, yet they raised a stranger's child. You're a resentful bigot.
@@travisl9201 no you're a bigot for putting words in my mouth i didn't say that. Read my comment carefully again.
@unreal one. Nope. They are not selfish because you are not the adoptive parents.
@@buddhasattva if you watched the documentary you would see that the girl was not happy her parents didn't tell her. She said she understands her parents reasoning but it's flawed reasoning. Also the parent said it themselves they didn't tell her because they were afraid to lose her. So put the dots together
@@travisl9201 also if you adopt a child they are legally yours until the age of 18 so don't know what you are talking about. If you pay another family to care for their child then you really are caring for a child that is not yours
Who can help me, I have 4 adopted sisters in USA and I German.
I don't wanna be in the same situation because then it'd create a problem as whom should I live with now? My adoptive parents who loved me and raised me all these years? Or my biological parents who gave birth to me? (BTW I'm adopted so this can happen to me lol)
Hazel Rachel she is an adult. She lives on her own in the US. She only knows English, is American, and stays in America for college last I saw. But she is in contact with both sets of parents and visits her Chinese parents. You have to relinquish your American citizenship to become a Chinese citizen, which I doubt she did as she will not be able to feed herself in China without knowing the language. It’s a really good story as both sets of parents get along, and she loves both sets. The birth parents were thanking her adoptive parents in the documentary. I actually think it was a good idea they told her about her birth parents after her teenage years. Teens can get rebellious and some run away from home. But as an independent adult she is able to handle the info better.
Gliding Bird that's really good that the parents are getting along. My biological parents are from India and I'm from America. What's the documentary called btw?
Hazel Rachel hello, it is called met me on the bridge it is on TH-cam. Good luck to you. I’m just happy you have good adoptive parents. You never know what/who you are going to find when you look for your biological parents. I knew a person who found her bio mother who did not accept her made her sad after spending all time looking. as her mother had brief relationship w a guy that didn’t work out. But told her who her bio father was who was accepting / she is in good terms with her biological father and she found that she had siblings. Some are warm others were cold towards her. Mixed bag.
She can be much luckier than you think. Both her biological and adaptive parents love her equally. She receives double love.
Sometimes life sucks , forgiving is always the answer
Skyjay Music life sometimes you cannot predict. But God still good.
Wow!!👍🏆🌹♥️💚
They will soon put pressure on the girl to marry and have children.
Can you put me in contact with who to call about adopting a girl between the ages of fifteen and eighteen with no disabilities from China?
She looks kind of like Tzuyu.
绝对是世事所迫，我见过德国有些家长收养了小孩到十几岁，亲生父母来要可能是土耳其农村还是更求的国家，小孩根本不愿意要亲生父母因为要和他们回国，所有的一切都是经济所迫，当时中国穷，父母处理不当但也是没办法，如果中国还一直穷饥荒人口政策紧估计这小孩也不愿多搭理最多给此钱，不会承认自己是chinese ，她现在是从white到chinese american估计以后就是american chinese
Bardzo ładna dziewczyna 😊
I live this store ✝️🙏😇👏🤔, My heart ❤️ goes out to both beautiful and amazing family ( parents 😇) This is such and Godly love story 🙏😇
She has new value now, offer her biological brother a Green card.
😥
Caught in a rigid “one child policy” but still, abandoning a kid in a public place is soo unthinkable and that must be soo heartbreaking for the parents... having no child yet, i couldn’t imagine doing that to my nieces or nephews. i’d probably raise them in a cave or somewhere😂...tsk..Chinese ... 😭😂
She's a real Mulan.
Why isnt her real parents at the REUNION???????
Dont adopt anyone because doesn't matter how much you love them they still going to find their bio parents
That's such a close minded thing to say.
That's stupid! Then let them alone in an orphanage? I had a college from high school who was adopted as a baby. She met her birth mother at 14-15 years old. She also has a half-sister. But she told me that she only loves her adopted parents. She doesn't like her birth mother. She told me she hates her. She has every right to feel any positive or negative feelings towards her biological mother.
Uhm no, they’re adopted because they want a family so stop
If the adoptive parents is not selfish maybe they should let Kati live with her birth patents.
I don’t think they want her to live with them :/ they put her into adoption for their own reason. Adoption kid don’t go back with their biological parents, they stick with their adopted parents
it’s not a matter of being selfish, plus i doubt kati would even want to live with her birth parents. it’s a different dynamic, they’re more of a symbol in her life rather than the people who raised her. i cant speak for all but this is how i feel being an 18 year old growing up in the us with an american family who adopted me from china. i was abandoned because of the same reasons. she doesn’t see her birth parents as “parents” nor would she probably give up her life as she knows to start over in a foreign country.
@@liviren it’s a lot of money to change your adopted last name :(
She's too far gone as an American to ever want to assimilate back to a fully Chinese life and I doubt she wants that either. Her adoptive family was there her whole life and gave her the life that she otherwise wouldn't have. Those are her true parents. Birth parents don't mean anything if you're not the ones raising your kid.
Adoptive parents were the one who raised her not birth parents so she has to live with her adoptive parents
😊😊😊
I hope she learned Chinese
Lady don’t ignore the ones whose saved you.
Unfortunately she's going to abandon her adopted parents now,the way her real parents once abandoned her out of no choice.
not true at all. you sound ignorant
She is so lucky that her parents put her in adoption, so many kids in China orphanage that so unlucky and we don’t know what happened to them in the hands of Xi JINPING communist government. I DONT SEE SO MUCH EMOTION TO HER WHEN SHE SEES HER BIRTH PARENTS. SHE SHOULD BE THANKFUL TO HER BIRTH PARENTS, FOR ALL THE HARDSHIP OF GIVING HER UP FOR SURVIVAL AND BETTER LIFE.
Viola gang viola gang viola gang
Puaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhaaaahhhhh !!!!
"A family one's lost has been found "
Said Michelle MILLER, the journalist!
LØL! this girl has already found a family since she was a baby : the one who adopted her!!!
Its insulting for parents who adopted kids!
ahaa she is a viola player
This girl can speak chinese isn't?after long time
I dont think so. She kinda have to use interpreter.
No. I followed her. She couldn't..unfortunately.
Welcome to Socialism, Coming to America
If their birth parents were smart, they should have given birth to her in a different county. My Aunt and Uncle have 2 children that were born in China, but one of them was born in a different county where they lived. That was how my Aunt and Uncle got away with it.
The chinese parent not wealthy family my dear...give birth in another country spends much much money..
ah yes because everyone in rural china has the money to pick up and move to a different country
Notice that the sister who stayed is much whiter because LOLChinese culture.
To her Chinese parents, please don't cry, you gave up your daughter. It was a stupid move. My parents were poor, but they had never give up any child.
HsingSun It was illegal to keep her, they had no choice. If they kept her, they would have been arrested and she would she ended up in an orphanage anyway. Research before you type.
Galaxy Cat you need to do some research. Her parents would have lost their jobs, their pensions, faced a huge fine, and perhaps their state provided housing but they would not have gone to jail. I have several Chinese friend who did just that rather than leave their children to be found. And before you argue with me about this I lived in China for seven years , adopted two, and volunteered at the Chinese orphanages when they were flooded with girls.
@@juliataylor8063 My son is Chinese, adopted. My step family are Asian. We all know about the one child policy and boys being more important in Chinese culture, although among the younger generation it is changing. There are many customs and traditions that are not nice and in many cases inhumane, thankfully, they will probably die out in the future. My step Asian family, still have the same thought process as they did when they left China and Burma with regards to skin color, and their ideal beauty, and are not at all hesitant to say it.
What a terrible (her REAL parents) left your 5 yo kid in the street like that. I got lost when I was 5 and am still remember how frightened I felt at the time. Someone took me to police station and my Dad mom got me out within 30 mins. Was SO scared. Am now mid 50.
Tom Boy if you really watched the whole story you’ll know why does her bio parents had to leave her duhhhhh
By appearance and demeanor, the China-grown sister looked much classier, several notches up the social-economical ladder. The American-raised one looked too "street" in comparison.
Literally the only difference is the Chinese raised sister has a lighter skin-tone - and likely because in China fair skin is valued and she's taken great measure to keep out of the sun, and in the west a lot of people want a tan and so the American raised sister didn't care to stay out of the sun. So basically you're saying that a tanned skintone makes her "street".
Your comment on the rating,which is more classier.n which is ' street' is not nice. no doubt that the adoptive parents did not tell her earlier, could have their own reasons, still this adoptive parents had loved and cared for her. Some credit should be given to them.
I see
several comments that they are selfish. Why so one sided. How about the love n affection they had rendered in bringing her up.
You should look at the skin tones of the Chinese parents. Kati is adorable.
@@robertreynolds580 What's skin tone got to do with demeanor or class or anything for that matter?
@@yaglehoole5662 There is history of that in China... go read it.