I found the article sensationalistic. Disturbing, and like a kick in the gut, but slanted overall. I'm not sure that an incident (as horrible as it is) in one orphanage means the entire system is corrupt, but from the way the article is written, it appears that way.

Karen/Naked ovary

Oh, yes, the article is definitely slanted. It makes it sound like all orphanages are getting babies from baby brokers, like all orphanage workers are skimming the dollars off the donation, like nothing's being fixed, etc. Whereas we know that plenty of orphanages/SWIs are using the donations to build new buildings with (wonder of wonders) central heat and air, getting new equipment, etc. From one second-hand report on APC from someone who knows the director of one of the big charity organizations, it seems that *some* orphanages are definitely corrupt, but in no way all of them (the charity director apparently blackballed a couple of orphanages because the workers simply took the goods donated and sold them). The question is, how will CCAA deal with this problem?

But, yeah, the article is one-sided, which is irritating.

After reading Kay Johnson's book Wanting A Daughter, Needing A Son-I have often wondered how willingly our dd's birth mother agreed to abandoning her baby girl or was she forced to do so by dd's birth father and paternal grandparents as Johnson seems to suggest is frequently the case.

In my heart I believe the documentation/account of our dd's abandonment is based on what actually transpired for her in the first few days of her life-but the fact that this article makes me question her story at all makes me fear for the day when she has to read these accounts. I have made a habit of saving articles I read re. China since we brought our daughter home-so that some day she might read them and have a better understanding of what life may have been like for the average person-for her birth family-at the time she was born. Not all of the articles pertain to adoption or the abandonment of children. How do I share this article with her when she is older? It will be enough for her to process the facts of her abandonment as we know them. She is just about 4 and doesn't really get it yet but on some level she does get it because she is so sensitive and I know she still is affected by the loss of her foster mother-and me being the one to tear her away from her. It's just so much for our daughters to deal with and I know they will have to revisit this over and over again at different stages of development.

Just wondering OmegaMom what your thoughts were reading the article in relation to how Omegadottir might react to a piece like this down the road?

The more I delve into Brian Stuy (thank you google!), the less credibility I give to this issue, and the more of a sucker I feel to have been drawn into it. Shame on the WP to do an article based on "research" by Stuy.

He's a good sensational writer, and looks to obtain some interesting info while traipsing through China, thanks to the $$$ sent in by parents for finding ads, but he's no scientist, and the evaluations are skewed.

For once (and this doesn't happen often), I feel bad for the CCAA to have to deal with fallout from articles such as this.