Aug. 27, 2010.
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Our travel companions on our adoption odyssey. |
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Madison's first ride on a carousel. |
Today began with another trip to the beautiful park near our hotel in Zhengzhou (by the way - this is pronounced jungjou). After that, we headed back to the hotel to pack and prepare for the flight to Guangzhou. We left our hotel in Zhengzhou at 3 p.m. and arrived at the hotel in Guangzhou at 10:30 p.m., which made for a long day. Madison did amazingly well on the two-hour plane ride. Hopefully this is a sign of how she will do on the 14+ hour plane ride home.
Since today was a fairly uneventful day, I'd like to take a moment to tell about an article that I read in a local Chinese newspaper (no, I haven't learned Chinese, it was in English). We were given a newspaper from the date of Madison's "Gotcha Day." I had not had an opportunity to read it until last night. An article quickly caught my attention entitled "Bride and Prejudice in China." The article led with "China's widening gender gap threatens to cause irreversible damage to the traditional family unit and could lead to more women being abducted, trafficked or sold into marriage, experts have warned." The article goes on to say the disparity in some provinces is 100 females to 130 males. There was already an investigation of 200,000 marriages in which 36,000 women where found to have been kidnapped from underdeveloped provinces and forced into marriage.
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Madison loves her time in the park. |
China still continues to place more value on the sons, so male babies are preferred. Due to this increasing problem, the government has now banned the doctors from revealing the sex of the baby when an ultrasound is performed (to avoid parents aborting female babies). This article helped me realize even more reasons we are so grateful to be bringing Madison home to a safe and secure environment where she will be honored and respected as a female. Please keep this country in your prayers, as I fear that they are just beginning to see the effects of their one child policy as well as families' preferences for male babies.
One other prayer request. One of the moms who is here with her 16-year -old son (dad stayed home with other kids) has adopted a precious 4 year old who has thalacemia (a blood disorder). He was in a foster home for three years and is having a very difficult time adjusting to his new family. We all know that the bond will occur, but Debbie (mom) is having a hard time - as any mom would. Timmy (the son she has come to bring home) is a precious boy who needs your prayers to comfort his heart while he mourns the loss of his foster family and makes room for his forever family.
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