China's Hidden Children: Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy, Paperback - Kay Ann Johnson

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What has happened to the secret babies born under China's one child policy, so many of whom are now adults?

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Jackie Kay tells the story of a black girl's adoption by a white Scottish couple, from three different viewpoints: the mother, the birth mother, an...

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