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Title: Wanting a Daughter, Needing a Son: Abandonment, Adoption, and Orphanage Care in China by Kay Ann Johnson, Amy Klatzkin ISBN: 0-9638472-7-9 Publisher: Yeong & Yeong Pub. Date: February, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Disappointed
Comment: As an adoptive parent of two daughters, both adopted from China, I bought this book and eagerly awaited its arrival. Kay Ann Johnson does supply many interesting insights into the circumstances into which our children were born (most of our daughters have one or more birth siblings, probably sisters, living in China today). Many of them are also heartbreakingly sad (the infant mortality rate for foundlings in China exceeds 50% in many provinces). But her repeated puzzlement that China doesn't pursue domestic adoption more vigorously left me agape. Why would a country that heavily fines women for bearing second or third children, even forcibly sterilizing them, want to keep "over-quota" children in their own country when the explicit population policies run directly counter to that end? And why is Johnson so convinced that domestic adoption is preferable to international adoption? (She's certainly not alone in this belief. But Johnson's only stated reason is that domestic adoption is the clear preference of the Hague Convention; and all we have to do is look to the horrendous consequences of China's population initiatives to know that no policy is right just because it's a policy.) I'm sure it's true that many Chinese people love their adopted children as much as their biological ones (but many of her examples showed the opposite, too). But what is the terrible downside to international adoption? I don't think that international adoption is a wonderful solution because of the material and educational advantages that many of our daughters enjoy, but because these children are so deeply and sincerely wanted by their families. Being raised by the woman on whose doorstep you were abandoned can't really be a happier fate than being raised by parents who wanted a child so badly that they endured endless bureaucracy and travelled half way around the world to have a daughter, can it?
The book is also highly repetitive, separate articles that cover the same terrain, often in the exact same words as previous chapters. And the academic-speak is tiresome and relentless.
Anyone interested in the topic should try "The Lost Daughters of China" instead.
Rating: 5
Summary: Understanding the Unthinkable
Comment: After deciding to adopt, I knew I had to learn as much as I could before formally beginning the process. Kay Ann Johnson's book provided me with a factual, and very touching, explanation of why and how China has come to have such an alarming number of female orphans. She opened my eyes to the powerful social and political forces at work in China. This clear and very well written book touched my heart and helped me to understand the reasons for female child abandonment. More importantly, it showed me that the Chinese DO love their daughters. Johnson's book has made me extremely comfortable with my decision to adopt from China. Even if you have already adopted from China, this book will help explain the circumstances that have brought you and your child together.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent
Comment: excellent source for future parents of Chinese adopted children or for the children themselves! I do not know of any other source of information going so deep into the history and facts about Chinese foundlings
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Title: At Home in This World, A China Adoption Story by Jean MacLeod ISBN: 0972624414 Publisher: Emk Pr Pub. Date: 04 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Good Women of China : Hidden Voices by Xinran Xue ISBN: 0375422013 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 08 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Waiting Child: How the Faith and Love of One Orphan Saved the Life of Another by Cindy Champnella ISBN: 0312309635 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 14 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: I Don't Have Your Eyes by Carrie A. Kitze ISBN: 0972624422 Publisher: Emk Pr Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: We See the Moon by Carrie A. Kitze ISBN: 0972624406 Publisher: EMK Press Pub. Date: 15 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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