child adoption

The photo taken on June 6, 2024 shows Corinne Wilson sticking a flyer in the hope of finding her adopted daughter Loulee's biological parents on a faded billboard with a slogan that reads "A daughter is like a slice of heaven, she'll take good care of you when you're old", which used to promote China's "one-child" policy in Dianjiang county, in southwestern China's Chongqing municipality. - Wilson, an American college student, was born in China but given away by parents fearful of violating the country's "one-child" policy, which punished families for having additional children until its abolition in 2015. (Photo by Matthew WALSH / AFP) / TO GO WITH 'CHINA-ADOPTION-POPULATION, FOCUS' BY CELIA CAZALE AND MATTHEW WALSH

China’s adopted children return from overseas to seek their roots

At an empty concrete lot in southwest China, Loulee Wilson scoops a handful of stones into a bag –- a memento from the site where she believes she was abandoned as a
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