Article Link – Comparing Chinese and Korean Adoption

Blog Link – China Adoption Blog

I found this article and I almost overlooked it because I thought it was on Chinese adoption; however, something made me read it and I’m so glad. This article talks about a documentary in progress (produced by a Korean adoptee) that is all about the difference between the first Korean adoptees in the 1950s and the first Chinese adoptees (recently).

When I was little, it was almost a guarantee that if you saw a little Asian girl with Caucasian parents, she was Korean. Now, it seems like she’s much more likely to be Chinese. For a whole number of factors, it seems that there are less Korean babies coming to the United States.

It’s a whole different world out there now than it was in the 1950s. Twenty years from now, what will the studies tell us? Chinese adoptees are coming into a society that had already met Korean adoptees and, for the most part, accepted us. What issues will be the same and what new issues will they have?

It’s amazing how much we’ve learned since the first Korean adoptees came to the United States – by trial and error. Some of this knowledge we will be able to transfer to future generations (both Korean and Chinese, Russian, Guatemalan…), but each generation will add its own issues to the mix. Here is a link to a post that I wrote about things that I learned that I can share with my son.

Blog Link: Things To Share

I can’t wait to see the first of the studies that look at Chinese adoption and compare it to Korean adoption. What will happen as the first Chinese adoptees start looking for birth parents. With the current government system, will it ever be possible? Korean adoptees who want to return to South Korea can do so with relative ease. What will happen if a Chinese adoptee would like to return to the country of her birth? So many questions…I can’t wait to here the answers.