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China Adoption Agency
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Adoption agencies were told that China intended to increase the supply of adoptable children by creating a new charity named Blue Skies, which would focus on improving health care for medically fragile infants or premature babies at orphanages. An initial goal of this charity would be to buy incubators for many of the country's orphanages, according to the Harrah's Adoption website.
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Huntly Collins, a La Salle University professor, noted in her positive review of the moral dilemma of Chinese adoption, where the move from China "involves a searing break with the past." This is the other side of Chinese adoption, a far cry from American nurseries with soft lighting and stuffed animals. Not only do these girls enter American culture, but they ... leave China behind.
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Just log on to any China adoption Yahoo group and rumors will fill up your inbox on a daily basis. From rumors of whats causing the current longer referral wait time to speculation about China adoptions closing forever, these rumors tend to cause stomach flip-flops for readers many who are in the process of adopting from China. Are these rumors true, or is it something to get readers riled up?
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The China adoption program provides one of the most reliable and simplified processes available today. More American families have chosen to adopt from China than from any other country since the year 2000. In 2006, about 6,493 Chinese orphans came to the United Sates.
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Currently living in China, Zhang has been working closely with the Chinese Center for Adoption Affairs, or CCAA, in Beijing. And, despite the current extended wait times from the time the dossier is logged in by CCAA to referral of a child, everything is running well with the China adoption program.
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[S]oon after the McClain's revised their request letter, SARS broke out in Asia: "China stopped all adoptions." Everyone was in limbo. The McClain's... were able to spend time revising their request and submitted it during the window of time SARS opened for them. When Scott and Sheila met with their "Waiting Families" support group and shared the news that they were requesting twins, they were informed that "fewer than 1% of all Chinese adoptions were twins . . ., but over 30% of families request them.
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