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Catalogue by countries / The Lost Daughters of China: Abandoned Girls, Their Journey to America, and the Search for a Missing Past

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ISS/IRC Code	COM-INTL-ADOPT ENG-009
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Title	The Lost Daughters of China: Abandoned Girls, Their Journey to America, and the Search for a Missing Past
Author	EVAN Karin
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Date published/issue	00-00-2000
Date received	00-00-0000
Place published
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Publisher	Penguin Putman Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014, www.penguinputnam.com
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Page	282
Price
ISBN	1 58542 117 0
Type of material	Book
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Document information
Document description	Commentaries Testimony
Country concerned	CHINA UNITED STATES
Index	Interacial Abandon-cause Origins-info Identity-origin Institution-child Abandonment
Free text	Account written by an American adoptive mother of a Chinese girl on her experience with adoption of a child from China, and her feelings as she has become more involved with the realities of the migration of chinese girls from their homeland to America through adoption. She reflects on what the future may hold for these girls as they realise that having been abandoned by their birth mothers as a result mostly of China's one child policy - with parents preferring to have sons - they are unlikely to ever find out anything about their birth parents. She also puts herself in the place of the abandoning mothers and tries to understand what they must have undergone in the process of giving up their babies. The author also comments on changes that are occurring in attitudes and policies in China that may affect families and children in future.