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Aired: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 11-12PM ET
By host Tom Ashbrook:
In 1991, struggling with poverty, a huge population, and a tough policy of one child per family, China loosened its adoption laws. In a culture that favors sons, that meant girls were up for adoption. And, very quickly, a great wave of international adoptions of Chinese girls by American families followed.
Today, though it's become an economic superpower, China is still far and away the number one destination for the thousands of Americans who every year adopt children abroad. And the very first girls who came -- first abandoned, then embraced -- are moving into their late teens, soon to tell their own stories.
Hear about the great wave of babies adopted from China, just beginning to come of age in America.
| · | Peter Goodman, Shanghai Bureau Chief for Washington Post | | · | Carrie Kitze, author of "I Don't Have Your Eyes" and founder of EMK Press | | · | Nancy Kim Parson, Adult Korean adoptee, working on a documentary film with Point Made Production in New York City on international adoption | | · | Dana Johnson, Director of the International Adoption Clinic and Director of the Division of Neonatology at University of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota Children's Hospital | | · | Kathleen Sander, Mother of three girls adopted from China. |
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Last month at the Olympics, Toby Dawson won a bronze medal in freestyle mogul skiing. Abandoned as a toddler in Seoul, he was adopted by an American couple and raised in Vail, Colorado.
Sports Illustratred senior writer Rick Reilly says that Dawson's victory is a much bigger story than a race down the mountain. For Reilly, Toby Dawson's story is a story of the bumpy ride many adopted children face, including Reilly's own daughter.
| · | Rick Reilly, senior writer for Sports Illustrated. |
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