BRAIN: Dave's adoption

[john paine]

On Mon, 6 May 1996, Rudich, Robert A wrote:

> Are they getting a boy or a girl?    More a question based on the difference
> in Chinese cultural views than anything else.  In other words, if they got a
> boy, would it have been easier to get a girl?   In either case, congrats to
> David and his wife.   It can be quite an ordeal to wrestle with China's
> bureaucracy.
>
> Rudy
>
There was an NPR report on Chinese adoption, and apparently >90% of All
Chinese orphan adoptions are girls, since the culture espouses
abandonment instead of keeping girl children.  Dreadful!

Ethnocentrically yours,

Jazzman