In April 2005, I read a statistic that 1.7 million baby girls are abandoned annually per year. It is against the law for the parents
to give up their children, so they can't
just go and give their children to an orphanage. Instead, many of the parents leave their
baby in an area where they are sure that they will be safely found. When a baby is found,
it is a law that the fact that she was found must be advertised in a newspaper so that the parents can
reclaim their child. We became aware that there is a company (Research China) that will look for your
child's "finding ad" in the Newspaper (The fee is reasonable). We knew that we
definitely wanted to try to locate Mary's "finding ad". We gave the company Mary's
chinese name, orphanage name, and info about approxiamently when she was found. The
company was able to find her. We recieved her info in the mail on April 2, 2005. We
were tearful (happy tears) and happy to thereby receive a picture of Mary from when she
was aroung 6 weeks old--so sweet! We think she is the prettiest baby on the whole page
(no prejudice here, of course!).
We are sure that the newspaper page was a great comfort to her biological mom and dad
who could look at the newspaper page and see that Mary was found and safely taken to
the orphanage.
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