The data books contain the data from which an adoptive family can assess the veracity of their child's finding story, or see if possible siblings were found the same day nearby. The books are a day to day, child by child recounting of over a decade of adoptions. The are, quite simply, must-haves for adoptive families wanting to provide their children with as much information as possible. Any adoptive parent considering a search for their child's birth family would be foolish if they didn't first study the data from all of the children from their child's orphanage.
We have completed the data books for the following orphanages, and additional books are being added weekly. One can read more about these important publications here:
http://www.research-china.org/databooks/index.htm
Guangdong:
Bao'An
Dianbai
Dongguan
Foshan/Nanhai
Gaoming
Huazhou
Lianjiang
Maogang/Maonan
Maoming
Sanshui
Wuchuan
Yangchun
Yangdong
Yangjiang/Jiangcheng
Yangxi
Xuwen
Zhuhai
Jiangxi:
Fengxin
Fuzhou
Guixi
Hengfeng
Jianxin
Poyang
Shangrao (at press)
Yingtan
Yiyang
Yugan
Hunan:
Chenzhou
Hengdong County
Hengshan County
Qidong County
Shaoyang
Xinhua
Yongzhou City, including:
• Dao
• Jiangyong
• Lanshan
• Lingling
• Ningyuan
• Qiyang
• Shuangpai
Yueyang City/County
Zhuzhou
Chongqing:
Fuling
Youyang
2 comments:
Long story short, for my daughter I am now certain we were given a fairy tale regarding finding place and circumstances. Until today I always assumed that because these deceits are systemic, built into the whole adoption process, therefore that would make it impossible to find the truth. My daughter would like to know her first parents, but she entered an orphanage 8 years ago. Did I wait too long to start looking?
For our son, he was in Chinese foster care, sponsored by a US charity of some sort - so we have photos from their required reports. Can this be useful at all or does this mean that there are even more people helping with the fabrications?
I have no difficulty believing in your research findings, and fully accept that I was a willing participant in a process that is not ethical but hides behind the veneer of internationally sanctioned paperwork. But can I add a bandaid by doing a "birthparent search" or is that just the next trend in the lucrative business of international adoption?
There is no question that an industry is growing for birth parent searching. The adoptive parent, however, must decide what offerings will lead to success, and which won't. Knowing if an orphanage's information is reliable, for example, will prevent valuable time and money from being wasted having someone go around putting up posters, for example, if the birth family doesn't even live in the area. That is the big lesson of the Hunan scandal. Adoptive parents can put up thousands of posters in Qidong, Hengshan, etc., and never locate a birth family because they live in Guangdong. In our own birth parent searches, we have often found birth families that lived in neighboring cities or even Provinces, drawn in by incentive programs.
Getting good data with which to decide if posters are a good strategy is the first step to a search -- sometimes they are the only way to conduct a search; most times they simply alert the orphanage that you are conducting a search, allowing them to talk to finders, etc., to harm or destroy any chance one may have had to successfully locate a child's birth family.
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