People are always shocked when they hear we are bringing home a boy from China. Most people (us included when we started our journey) do not know that there are boys to be adopted in China. Because of the One Child Policy in China most families desire a boy as they are the families "hope" for the future. This is why girls are abandoned. Most boys in China that are abandoned are special needs children but there are many boys. I was going through my saved emails this weekend and found one I had saved from the Love Without Boundaries blog. This was posted during the time we were praying about updating our application to include a boy. It was just what we needed to read and the answer we were looking for.
"One thing that struck me over and over on this trip was how many BOYS are in the orphanages in China. It is such a myth that only baby girls are orphaned. During the special needs training in Fujian, we were asked over and over if certain children could be adopted, and while of course we encouraged them to send every child's file, I felt great sadness in hearing them ask me again and again about different boys in their care and whether there would be a family for them. The sad reality is that often there is not. As the mom of five boys, I still do not understand why it is still so much harder for a boy from China to find a home than a girl. Yet every month we watch as most of the girls on the waiting children lists get chosen while the little boys often wait and wait and wait."
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