Jan 20, 2018
Ricki Mudd shares her story of meeting her birth parents and brother in China and Iris Leung introduces a volunteer service in China assisting parents looking for missing children. Ricki describes her amazing experiences in China and living with her birth family for six weeks, a story told in detail in the well-known documentary film Ricki’s Promise. We discuss matters of cultural understanding and misunderstanding and the impact of the One Child Policy on her brother, and Ricki considers questions like who should make a decision to initiate a birth parent search, the adoptee or the adoptive parents, and when and how might that decision be made. Iris Leung introduces Baobeihuijia, a volunteer service in China assisting parents looking for missing children. She explains how an adoptee seeking birth parents might use the service and shares some examples of appeals from birth parents from the site: http://www.baobeihuijia.com The missing children she mentions in this episode are 118795 (F) Luo Nan Nan, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, DOB: 02/03/97; 45675 (M) name unknown, Yuechi county, Sichuan Province, DOB: 08/03/11; and 197427 (F) Yin Yan, ShaoYang, Hunan Province, DOB: 12/13/01.