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China, pictured on a globe, has recently updated its international adoption requirements

News Brief: China Announces Changes to Its International Adoption Requirements

News Brief: China Announces Changes to Its International Adoption Requirements

In July 2017, China announced updated requirements regarding the composition of the prospective adoptive family and the timing of applications.

Melissa and Maya Ludtke at the Xiaxi market in 2004, the trip that inspired Touching Home in China

Two Adoptees on Going “Home” to China, Again

After a birth country visit to China that was too much, too soon for my seven-year-old daughter, she and a friend returned on their own terms as teens. The trip helped them imagine what their lives might have been and explore their Chinese-American identities.

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