Some parents in China are making claims that their infant children (mostly daughters) were forcibly taken from them and placed for adoption with foreign families. The Boston Globe reports that the claims are fueling speculation about the legitimacy of some adoptions.

A Sept. 30 article on the Medical News Today reported the following:

The conventional wisdom is that the infants, mostly girls, were abandoned by their parents because of Chinas one-child policy and a cultural preference for boys, the Globe reports.

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.

The Chinese Center for Adoption Affairs declined to comment on the allegations, Medical News Today reported.

Labels: international, adoption fraud

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