The Chinese people were very thrilled with seeing the Chinese girls with American parents. I don’t remember the Chinese term but it meant “lucky ones”. The orphanages are run by the government... therefore, funding/food/medicine is lacking and severely. Were you able to visit your daughter’s orphanage? We weren’t.. it wasn’t allowed period.
There is a big difference between the Chinese regular people and their government. The government controls their media and puts out information they want you to know. Have you ever read about a flu wiping out an entire orphanage or most of it? You won’t but it happens.
The Chinese are very aware of the world’s view on their human rights or lack thereof. Any article pertaining to that Country is up for speculation.
Our travel group’s first trip after “gotcha day” was back to the SWI, but we thought that was a pretty stupid place to go with our new baby, so took a pass.
Surprisingly enough, one of the other parents in our group found pictures of our girls in the orphanage on the internet before we got them, and gave the pictures to us. It was very clean and brite, but totally devoid of toys. It was also apparent the girls went from crib to walker, and back again, in their day to day life.