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4.33 AVERAGE
4.33 AVERAGE
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Insightful, informative, heartbreaking, and well-rounded discussion about the extremely complicated topic of adoptions, specifically Chinese adoptions. The author appropriately shared the experience of the adoptees before and after meeting each other (the twins separated before age 2) and of their adopted and birth families.
Demmick shared about how international adoption exploded over the “white savior” complex through religious organizations, especially the Evangelical Christian church. Chinese government and adoption agencies exploited the business of adoption…I still don’t have the right words for my feelings about the human trafficking and kidnapping of children from poor and underprivileged families; the one-child policy didn’t help their feelings of desperation. I’m so disgusted by the forced late-term abortions by the government and the local governments profiting off of outing families who broke the law regarding the one-child policy.
Regardless of the difficult nature of this book, I believe everyone should give this book a try.
Demmick shared about how international adoption exploded over the “white savior” complex through religious organizations, especially the Evangelical Christian church. Chinese government and adoption agencies exploited the business of adoption…I still don’t have the right words for my feelings about the human trafficking and kidnapping of children from poor and underprivileged families; the one-child policy didn’t help their feelings of desperation. I’m so disgusted by the forced late-term abortions by the government and the local governments profiting off of outing families who broke the law regarding the one-child policy.
Regardless of the difficult nature of this book, I believe everyone should give this book a try.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Death, Infertility, Suicide, Trafficking, Grief, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Racism
Incredible story and fantastic writing. It’s dense with information, which made it a slower read for me, but the audiobook really helped. It makes me want to read up on the one child policy more bc it’s so insane that this was a thing.