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Sharon's post is excellent, and I just want to mention that there is now an initiative in China called something like"Girls Matter Too" that is intended to help families keep their female children when they feel pressured to give them up in favor of a male child. I don't know how successful this program is, but it could have an impact on how many baby girls are abandoned.

Orphanages that have never been open to international adoption are starting to place special needs children as a first foray into the process. Our son from Feng Kai, Guangdong Province is the first child to be placed for international adoption (that we know of). Hopefully, he will be the first of many children from there to to be placed for international adoption in the future.