28 March is the 11th birthday of my daughter Fu Xinke, whom I adopted 10 years ago from China. Many babies like her, these days, are either not born at all or certainly not adopted. What a difference a decade makes.
Last week I returned to her home town of Chuzhou, in China’s eastern Anhui province, to see just how the one-child policy – quite likely to be the reason she became my daughter – is getting on these days in a province that was once a significant exporter of babies for overseas adoption.
When Xinke was born, many Chinese adoptions involved Anhui babies; but by 2010, international adoptions there had fallen to zero. Has Anhui outgrown foreign adoption – or has it outgrown having surplus babies at all?
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