{"id":2122,"date":"2011-09-18T23:50:17","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T23:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2122"},"modified":"2011-09-18T23:50:17","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T23:50:17","slug":"adoption...why-americans-love-to-adopt-chinese-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2122","title":{"rendered":"Adoption...Why Americans Love to adopt Chinese so much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI've always been skeptical of this, the 'rich' West adopting the 'poor' East children. Thinking that it's more about pride, heroism, pre-made baby concept, too much time, too much money, etc. than true love. I questioned because when I began to wonder 'what if certain challenges come, they are not going to be able to face it&quot;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIf I were they, I would first make sure my Chinese adopted daugther learn Chinese, her mother tongue. If I wanted a Western culture, I would have adopted a Western orphan.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSo when this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/18\/nyregion\/chinas-adoption-scandal-sends-chills-through-families-in-united-states.html?_r=1&amp;ref=todayspaper\" target=\"_blank\">news <\/a>come,&nbsp; shocking some hinting that they may have adopted an abducted child sold on trafficing market, while they thought they were 'helping' some poor abandoned child.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI would just say, the much better, if one truly cares about contributing to a social order and love of children, it is better to found an orphanage than to just adopt some cute baby of one's own choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I've always been skeptical of this, the 'rich' West adopting the 'poor' East children. Thinking that it's more about pride, heroism, pre-made baby concept, too much time, too much money, etc. than true love. I questioned because when I began &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2122\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}