Share Story
Send to KindleRelated News
Sisters in search for Chinese parents
By Li Qian |
April 20, 2012, Friday
|
Print Edition
Print Edition
AN American woman who adopted two Chinese girls but only found later that they were sisters is searching for their biological parents in China.
The Changde City Welfare Center in Hunan Province, from where the girls were adopted, said their parents might be from the Pengshui or Qianjiang districts of Chongqing, the Chongqing Economic Times reported yesterday.
"We are sorry for bringing you trouble due to our birth. But we believe you are always concerned about us and we miss you so much," wrote the sisters, now aged 15 and 11, in a letter intended for their biological parents.
The American woman, who was only identified as Bonnie by the newspaper, adopted the elder sister in 1998 and the younger one three years later. She had no idea that they might be related.
The elder sister, Chang Aijie, had undergone surgery to remove a tumor soon after she was born while the younger girl, Chang Xiaofang, was in perfect health, the welfare center said.
Growing up in New Hampshire, the girls became more and more alike until Bonnie eventually suspected they might be sisters and took them for a DNA test.
The test proved her suspicions correct.
"It was a miracle," she told the newspaper. But she said she began to feel angry that a mother could be so cold-blooded as to abandon not one, but two daughters.
However, the girls don't blame their biological parents at all, saying "thank you for giving us lives" in the letter.
"I don't plan to bother their biological parents. I just want to show pictures to them and let them know the girls really miss them," Bonnie was quoted as saying.
"Both of them are healthy and live happy lives now," she said. "I'm so proud of them. The elder sister is good at the high jump while the younger one likes playing tennis and the viola." In the past 10 years, Bonnie has brought the girls to China several times, visiting the Great Wall and seeing pandas in Chengdu. "The three of us all love China," she told the newspaper.
The Changde center said that in China's rural areas most families preferred boys and some abandoned girls.
It is investigating how the children came to be at the center and who might have brought them there and has issued a phone number, 966965, for anyone able to help.
The Changde City Welfare Center in Hunan Province, from where the girls were adopted, said their parents might be from the Pengshui or Qianjiang districts of Chongqing, the Chongqing Economic Times reported yesterday.
"We are sorry for bringing you trouble due to our birth. But we believe you are always concerned about us and we miss you so much," wrote the sisters, now aged 15 and 11, in a letter intended for their biological parents.
The American woman, who was only identified as Bonnie by the newspaper, adopted the elder sister in 1998 and the younger one three years later. She had no idea that they might be related.
The elder sister, Chang Aijie, had undergone surgery to remove a tumor soon after she was born while the younger girl, Chang Xiaofang, was in perfect health, the welfare center said.
Growing up in New Hampshire, the girls became more and more alike until Bonnie eventually suspected they might be sisters and took them for a DNA test.
The test proved her suspicions correct.
"It was a miracle," she told the newspaper. But she said she began to feel angry that a mother could be so cold-blooded as to abandon not one, but two daughters.
However, the girls don't blame their biological parents at all, saying "thank you for giving us lives" in the letter.
"I don't plan to bother their biological parents. I just want to show pictures to them and let them know the girls really miss them," Bonnie was quoted as saying.
"Both of them are healthy and live happy lives now," she said. "I'm so proud of them. The elder sister is good at the high jump while the younger one likes playing tennis and the viola." In the past 10 years, Bonnie has brought the girls to China several times, visiting the Great Wall and seeing pandas in Chengdu. "The three of us all love China," she told the newspaper.
The Changde center said that in China's rural areas most families preferred boys and some abandoned girls.
It is investigating how the children came to be at the center and who might have brought them there and has issued a phone number, 966965, for anyone able to help.
- About Us
- |
- Terms of Use
- |
-
RSS - |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Contact Us
- |
- Shanghai Call Center: 962288
- |
- Tip-off hotline: 52920043
- 沪ICP证：沪ICP备05050403号-1
- |
- 互联网新闻信息服务许可证：31120180004
- |
- 网络视听许可证：0909346
- |
- 广播电视节目制作许可证：沪字第354号
- |
- 增值电信业务经营许可证：沪B2-20120012
Copyright © 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.
