| The Peoples Republic of China (PRC) is striving to establish new policies designed to protect the welfare of China's orphaned population. However, each of these policies, though positive steps in the right direction, has some serious downfalls. Drawing on available literature and author's experience adopting two Chinese children, this Final Document argues that the lack of funding and follow-through at regional and local levels of government, allows for these policies to become rhetoric versus implemented change. There is considerable worry by people in China concerned about children, the international adoption community, and domestic and international NGOs over the implementation and outcomes of these policies. It is important for researchers, scholars, human rights activists and the general public, both domestically and foreign, to be the voice of these children so that they do not become a lost population again. |
