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."

mtchew she no even fine sef

make dem decide her na..


S-P

nicee

WHO CARES?

forreelinc:
mtchew she no even fine sef

she is fine o

forreelinc:
mtchew she no even fine sef

I wonder how"pretty " ur gal is

forreelinc:
mtchew she no even fine sef

u be wan claim her?

mikky4764:


u be wan claim her?

eh? This one wey no fine?
I dash you

giftedheart1:
I wonder how"pretty " ur gal is

wonder no more baby

doyinbaby:
she is fine o

no she aint

forreelinc:


eh? This one wey no fine?
I dash you

ha ha ha ha

forreelinc:

wonder no more baby

I pity u... What if this girl's boyfriend is on this platform?

giftedheart1:
I pity u... What if this girl's boyfriend is on this platform?

savage,why evils

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.

giftedheart1:
I pity u... What if this girl's boyfriend is on this platform?

HOW DARE YOU?!
Kneel down there raise up your hands and close your eyes

forreelinc:
mtchew .she no even fine sef

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?

forreelinc:
wonder no more baby

Her nose like mini-spade

chukxie:


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?

What's this one saying? how does your story justify her not being pretty?

crotonite:
Her nose like mini-spade

hater! Kneel down der

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.

giftedheart1:
I pity u... What if this girl's boyfriend is on this platform?

Ur bad man

Am sure he didn't catch ur drift, him for de wail

NotOfThis:
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.

Do na
Why tell us?

bignero:

Ur bad man
Am sure he didn't catch ur drift, him for de wail


Do na Why tell us?

just trying to be concerned