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See The Girl Claimed By 50 Families As Their Daughter (photos) by Everfrank(m): 12:38pm On Apr 22, 2017 |
When Jenna Cook went back to China at the age of 20 to search for her birth parents, she knew she was unlikely to succeed. What she didn't expect was that she would meet dozens of families who desperately hoped she was their lost child. Near a busy bus station in the Chinese city of Wuhan, on 24 March 1992, someone left a baby to be found. It's quite likely that they watched and waited from a safe distance until the girl was spotted. She was picked up and taken to the Wuhan Children Welfare House, close by. There she was given a name, Xia Huasi, meaning "China's", and assigned a birth date chosen at random by the director of the home. China's one-child policy meant that families faced heavy fines for having too many children. But it was also - and still is - illegal to give up unwanted children. There was no formal adoption process. But just days later China passed a law allowing foreign nationals to adopt, and at the end of June an American primary school teacher, Margaret Cook, came to collect Xia Huasi. She renamed her Jenna and took her home to Massachusetts. Jenna was one of the first wave of about 200 Chinese babies to go to American families. Many others followed - an estimated 80,000, mostly girls, have now gone to live in the US, and an additional 40,000 to the Netherlands, Spain and the UK. Jenna always knew that she was adopted. "We would talk about adoption just like we would talk about what's for dinner. It never felt like something that was a big deal," she says. Nevertheless, she sometimes wondered where she came from. "Even just looking at your own belly button, you think to yourself: 'Oh, I used to be attached to another human being. That's the body I came from, but who is that? Does that person even really exist?' It all seems so abstract. It sometimes just feels like you appeared on the planet. "Most people are just born into the families they're born into and they never think twice about it. Whereas for adopted people there is always this possibility of another life." 1 Like
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Re: See The Girl Claimed By 50 Families As Their Daughter (photos) by forreelinc(m): 12:39pm On Apr 22, 2017 |
mtchew she no even fine sef |
Re: See The Girl Claimed By 50 Families As Their Daughter (photos) by pretee246(m): 12:48pm On Apr 22, 2017 |
make dem decide her na.. S-P |
Re: See The Girl Claimed By 50 Families As Their Daughter (photos) by devilmaycry: 12:56pm On Apr 22, 2017 |
nicee |
Re: See The Girl Claimed By 50 Families As Their Daughter (photos) by GloriaNinja(f): 12:59pm On Apr 22, 2017 |
WHO CARES? |
Re: See The Girl Claimed By 50 Families As Their Daughter (photos) by doyinbaby(f): 1:12pm On Apr 22, 2017 |
forreelinc:she is fine o 3 Likes |
Re: See The Girl Claimed By 50 Families As Their Daughter (photos) by giftedheart1(m): 1:17pm On Apr 22, 2017 |
forreelinc:I wonder how"pretty " ur gal is |
Re: See The Girl Claimed By 50 Families As Their Daughter (photos) by mikky4764(f): 1:20pm On Apr 22, 2017 |
forreelinc: u be wan claim her? |
Re: See The Girl Claimed By 50 Families As Their Daughter (photos) by forreelinc(m): 6:40pm On Apr 22, 2017 |
Re: See The Girl Claimed By 50 Families As Their Daughter (photos) by forreelinc(m): 6:45pm On Apr 22, 2017 |
giftedheart1:wonder no more baby 1 Like
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Re: See The Girl Claimed By 50 Families As Their Daughter (photos) by forreelinc(m): 6:45pm On Apr 22, 2017 |
doyinbaby:no she aint |
Re: See The Girl Claimed By 50 Families As Their Daughter (photos) by mikky4764(f): 7:38pm On Apr 22, 2017 |
forreelinc: ha ha ha ha |
Re: See The Girl Claimed By 50 Families As Their Daughter (photos) by giftedheart1(m): 10:04pm On Apr 22, 2017 |
forreelinc:I pity u... What if this girl's boyfriend is on this platform? 2 Likes |
Re: See The Girl Claimed By 50 Families As Their Daughter (photos) by SolexxBarry(m): 12:07am On Apr 23, 2017 |
giftedheart1:savage,why evils |
Re: See The Girl Claimed By 50 Families As Their Daughter (photos) by jerrytim8496(m): 12:36am On Apr 23, 2017 |
SolexxBarry: |
Re: See The Girl Claimed By 50 Families As Their Daughter (photos) by Nobody: 4:28am On Apr 23, 2017 |
This is the problem with adopted children, they are never satisfied with the person(s) who cared for them and saved their lives, they will rather go back to the one who abandoned them and left them to die. |
Re: See The Girl Claimed By 50 Families As Their Daughter (photos) by forreelinc(m): 6:23am On Apr 23, 2017 |
giftedheart1: HOW DARE YOU?! Kneel down there raise up your hands and close your eyes |
Re: See The Girl Claimed By 50 Families As Their Daughter (photos) by chukxie(m): 6:43am On Apr 23, 2017 |
forreelinc: You thought those families claimed she was their daughter because she was pretty? No! They claimed she was theirs because they either gave up a daughter for adoption or lost one - stolen from them. Have you ever heard of missing children? |
Re: See The Girl Claimed By 50 Families As Their Daughter (photos) by Nobody: 8:17am On Apr 23, 2017 |
forreelinc:Her nose like mini-spade |
Re: See The Girl Claimed By 50 Families As Their Daughter (photos) by forreelinc(m): 8:37am On Apr 23, 2017 |
chukxie: What's this one saying? how does your story justify her not being pretty? crotonite: hater! Kneel down der |
Re: See The Girl Claimed By 50 Families As Their Daughter (photos) by Nobody: 9:02am On Apr 23, 2017 |
Y'all like to post stories without sources. I wanted to read more about her story but you included no source. I'll Google it anyway. |
Re: See The Girl Claimed By 50 Families As Their Daughter (photos) by bignero: 9:43am On Apr 23, 2017 |
giftedheart1: Ur bad man Am sure he didn't catch ur drift, him for de wail NotOfThis: Do na Why tell us? |
Re: See The Girl Claimed By 50 Families As Their Daughter (photos) by giftedheart1(m): 7:17pm On Apr 23, 2017 |
bignero:just trying to be concerned |
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