Chinese Parents Allege Government Officials Coerced, Forced Adoptions

Some Chinese parents are coming forward with claims that their infant daughters were forcibly taken for foreign adoption. About 80,000 Chinese children have been adopted abroad since the early 1990s, with the majority going to U.S. families. The "conventional wisdom" is that the infants, mostly girls, were abandoned by their parents because of China's one-child policy and a cultural preference for boys. Although this is likely true for tens of thousands of the adoptions, some Chinese say that government officials took their children by coercion, fraud or kidnapping to collect money from orphanages. Some have said they were beaten, threatened or tricked into relinquishing their parental rights. Medical News Today