Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Beautiful little faces in China

I love this video because it shows such beautiful little faces of children who are living in orphanages in China. The beginning of the video shows what a woman faces when giving up her baby. She has no choice. She can't have more than one child. She's pressured to have a boy and is forced to give up her daughter to try again for a son. It's illegal for her to give up her baby so she's forced to leave her somewhere...a park, police station, market, or an orphanage. It's illegal for women to use an ultrasound to find out her baby's sex. There is a black market where women can have ultrasounds to find out the gender so they can abort the baby if it is in fact a girl. Millions of baby girls are believed to die this way. I think of the birth mother of our daughter all the time. I can feel her pain of having to give up her daughter. I only wish I could tell her how much we will love and cherish her baby. We are just so grateful that our daughter was given life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC2rmCRQRKQ

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