No kidnapped babies for adoption!

Ok, so a few weeks back someone posted an article on my blog that was in the Washington Post. It painted Chinese adoption in a very negative light and suggested that all Chinese adoption is corrupt. It stated how there was all of these babies being stolen in China from their mothers and put on the black market. Yes, I agree that blackmarketing babies is a horrendous act, but I am also pretty sure that the article is very slanted and the writer I am sure had his own agenda(maybe he works for an agency that deals with Korea or Russia, who knows?) This article was floating around several of the China adoptive parents yahoo groups and scared the crap out of some of us. Most people choose to adopt from China because it is seen as a straightforward, non-corrupt process. Luckily, a few days later this article came out. (BTW-who did send me that first article, the name was "anonymous"?-note to all friends, let me know who you are, I love reading your feedback!!)

By JOE MCDONALD
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

BEIJING -- The Chinese government says that an investigation found no children involved in a recent baby-trafficking case were adopted by American families, a U.S. State Department official said Wednesday.

The U.S. government asked the official China Center for Adoption Affairs to investigate after state media said abducted babies were sold to welfare homes in the southern city of Hengyang and later adopted by foreign couples. The United States is the leading destination for Chinese babies adopted abroad.

"The CCAA informed us that it had concluded its investigation into all of the children from Hengyang adopted by Americans and found that all of these children were legitimately orphaned or abandoned and that there are no biological parents searching for them," the U.S. official, who declined to be identified further in line with State Department rules, said from Washington.