“It is getting much better with the rise of Chinese affluence”.
Perhaps but I question any data from China concerning the number of orphans and how they are treated. China originally tried “domestic adoption” and it didn’t work out so well. The Chinese were adopting the boys (of course) as “sons”. The girls they adopted as “free slaves”... not as daughters.
China will always have an issue with orphans being “worthless”.. especially the female ones. A son is considered a blessing since he is the parent’s social security. That is, he is suppose to provide for his parents when they are old and he is working. Girls are referred to as “maggots in rice”. They are “given” away to the husband’s family. That is why so many of the orphans are girl babies or a baby with a disability.
When we brought home our little girl from China, she was underfed, filthy, and obviously physically abused. Her right arm was obviously yanked over and over and over. When you went to pick her up, she would hide her arm and a look of fear came over her little face.
She was one in a group of nine orphans adopted during that same time frame/through the same agency. ALL of them “hated” any middle aged Asian woman. Several of them would go fetal if they saw one. My daughter and one other would “ball up their fists” in fear/defiance. One little girl would get so scared that she would relieve herself and vomit. Needless to say, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that the caretakers of orphans are anything but “Mother Theresa’s”. The one mentioned in the article may be a good person. However, through personal experience... I don’t believe anything the Chinese say over their orphans.
Mine has “gone blank” once when seeing a middle age asian woman, but other than that she only suffered from a lack of stimulation.
I saw not a trace of the infamous Chinese disdain for girls when we went to bring our daughter home. To the contrary, I got the distinct impression the people shared in what they considered our girl’s good fortune at being adopted.