It’s a 2 minute 8 second video that every China adoptive family should watch.
Yes, it’s very hard to watch. Yes, you may want to turn your head. But, you must watch because you are now or are waiting to be a parent to a child who will one day—sooner than you think likely—face his story, try to piece together her own history, and the images and sounds of grief heard in this video should not be unfamiliar to you.
No, it doesn’t take away his anger or her desire to ask her unknown birth family why. The city shown here may be hundreds of miles away from his birthplace. And, we may never know if her birth mother or father walked away broken hearted or relieved or both. But, the more we as their parents can experience that may help us connect some dots even if the picture never will be complete, the more completely we can walk with our children and the better we can love them.
Oh, my. Absolutely heartbreaking. Thank you for posting. It’s so important to see and also so very, very, very difficult to watch.
This is so sad, and so helpful to watch. Thank you for posting it! I’d love to learn more about the complex reasons behind giving up children in China. I know there are so many aspects to the epidemic/problem, but I haven’t found a good article/clip summarizing these things.
oh. i just can’t fathom being in the position to have to make such a decision.
I don’t think your link is working. At least, it didn’t for me today. I googled it and found it on CTV, but my computer isn’t wanting that site to work for some reason. Just thought I’d give you a heads up.