[TaraL]

So many people want to romantize the Chinese government and their feeling about their children. Lets face it, if there was such a concern about the children the government would not have established a one child policy. There are numerous things they could have done to ensure that girls were wanted by families. China is a communist country and their citizens follow this because that is all they know and what they must do.

I truly believe that China put these new regulations into affect for 2 reasons. First, the Olympics are coming. They certainly don't want to look like the country full of orphans to the rest of the world. This way they appear that that child abandonment is significantly reduced and that they want to keep their children. Second, its a matter of looking good to the world regardless of the Olypmics. China is very concerned about how they look. International adoption from there is huge now and although we may be happy at the opportunities they are not because of how it makes them look. Trust me when I say that it is not for the children's good.

Domestic adoption is very expensive in China and very hard for the average citizen to afford. If they wanted to increase it they would make it more cost affective. But they aren't going to let the rest of the world know that.

Lastly, if China were so worried about their children they would have made great strides to have more than 1/3 of all orphanages participate in international adoption so more children could have families. As hard as it is to believe, there are tens of thousands of children who are going to live their childhood out in an orphanage, never have a family and then move to living on the streets. China is a huge expanding country financially and they continue not to give the proper resources to orphanages. Children die all the time in them. That is not caring about the children.

I do want to say that my anger is with the Chinese government and not the citizens of the country. I have great respect for them and their culture. I want my daughter to be proud to be Chinese. I am proud to be an American and 99% of the time I am not proud of my government either.