By Isabella Kahn for Teen Vogue

From the article:

On August 28, 2024, the People’s Republic of China announced the end of their intercountry adoption policy, and a small corner of the world stood still.

Chinese transnational adoptees worldwide were shocked, relieved, saddened, and frustrated all at once. Some had hoped to one day adopt children of their own from the country. Others were alarmed by the possible uncertainty around their adoption paperwork.

China’s intercountry adoption program, formalized by the 1992 Adoption Law, stemmed from earlier state concerns about overpopulation. This history is perhaps best known via the 1979 One-Child Policy, which limited many families to only have one kid. In the 32 years that the law was in effect, approximately 160,000 Chinese children were adopted by families across the world.

I was one of them.

Now, we’re growing up: graduating from college, moving across the world, and building families of our own.

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