Comments on: Lucy; Chapter Two http://kaybratt.com/2009/10/lucy-chapter-two/ {Uncensored} Wed, 16 May 2012 23:20:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: HK http://kaybratt.com/2009/10/lucy-chapter-two/comment-page-1/#comment-411 HK Sat, 27 Mar 2010 11:27:13 +0000 http://kaybratt.com/?p=201#comment-411 I admire Lucy for choosing to raise her baby and striving to be a good Mom. From reading other articles in this series, it sounds like having this boy has meant sacrificing everything, including her dreams and happiness, and it is obvious she is stuck in an unhappy marriage. Very unfortunate. I hope her future improves. 1. Healthy babies are rarely "abandoned" in China, they are sold. Orphanages or middle-men will pay a villager a minimum of $300. A small fortune in Yuan. Or, babies are taken through coercion and threats. 2. So far, I cannot find any reference on your site to the rampant corruption and child trafficking surrounding the adoption system in China. I hope you address this issue in your book, or you are doing a grave disservice. 3. Babies are big business in China, run on a supply and demand system and ripe for abuse. In the past 5 years the demand for babies has tripled, while the supply of healthy "desirable" babies for adoption has drastically dropped. [see extensive published research at Brandies.edu/investigate] This drop in supply has led to orphanages buying babies to keep 'in stock' for the thousands of wealthy Western families eager to fork over steep adoption fees that include a guaranteed $3,000 to the Orphanage. 4. Kelly, Why more boys lately in the system than ever before? Boys are worth twice as much as girls on the black market. Kidnappings of Chinese children are on the rise, and YES many end up sold into the foreign adoption system. According to a recent ABC investigative report every orphanage interviewed admitted they don't like to take the boys because they know they are likely kidnapped. Please share these facts with your readers. The only way to end corruption is to become informed and Stop Funding The Crime! Sources: [add http:// in front] 1. "China's Lost Children": abcnews.go.com/print?id=4774224 2. "The Lie We Love", award winning investigative report: foreignpolicy.com/articles/2008/10/15/the_lie_we_love 3. Nov. 2009 SBC/BBC Documentary "Kidnapped in China" youtube.com/watch?v=lhEtYhS1gJM I admire Lucy for choosing to raise her baby and striving to be a good Mom. From reading other articles in this series, it sounds like having this boy has meant sacrificing everything, including her dreams and happiness, and it is obvious she is stuck in an unhappy marriage. Very unfortunate. I hope her future improves.

1. Healthy babies are rarely “abandoned” in China, they are sold. Orphanages or middle-men will pay a villager a minimum of $300. A small fortune in Yuan. Or, babies are taken through coercion and threats.

2. So far, I cannot find any reference on your site to the rampant corruption and child trafficking surrounding the adoption system in China. I hope you address this issue in your book, or you are doing a grave disservice.

3. Babies are big business in China, run on a supply and demand system and ripe for abuse. In the past 5 years the demand for babies has tripled, while the supply of healthy “desirable” babies for adoption has drastically dropped. [see extensive published research at Brandies.edu/investigate] This drop in supply has led to orphanages buying babies to keep ‘in stock’ for the thousands of wealthy Western families eager to fork over steep adoption fees that include a guaranteed $3,000 to the Orphanage.

4. Kelly, Why more boys lately in the system than ever before? Boys are worth twice as much as girls on the black market. Kidnappings of Chinese children are on the rise, and YES many end up sold into the foreign adoption system. According to a recent ABC investigative report every orphanage interviewed admitted they don’t like to take the boys because they know they are likely kidnapped.

Please share these facts with your readers. The only way to end corruption is to become informed and Stop Funding The Crime!

Sources: [add http:// in front]

1. “China’s Lost Children”: abcnews.go.com/print?id=4774224
2. “The Lie We Love”, award winning investigative report: foreignpolicy.com/articles/2008/10/15/the_lie_we_love
3. Nov. 2009 SBC/BBC Documentary “Kidnapped in China”
youtube.com/watch?v=lhEtYhS1gJM

]]> By: Alice http://kaybratt.com/2009/10/lucy-chapter-two/comment-page-1/#comment-112 Alice Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:46:04 +0000 http://kaybratt.com/?p=201#comment-112 Thank you for this. Lucy has no idea what a great service she has done for we the ignorant Westerners ;) Thank you for this. Lucy has no idea what a great service she has done for we the ignorant Westerners ;)

]]> By: Truly Blessed http://kaybratt.com/2009/10/lucy-chapter-two/comment-page-1/#comment-105 Truly Blessed Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:53:31 +0000 http://kaybratt.com/?p=201#comment-105 Kay, I'm just wondering if Lucy could address one more question the next time you talk with her. She states several times that most children are abandoned because they are girls - and that makes sense as we understand the cultural preference for boys in light of the One Child Policy. So why would parents abandon an apparently healthy baby boy? Several of my cyber friends have received unexpected referrals of NSN baby boys, and I can't imagine what they will tell their sons as those children begin to ask questions about why they weren't kept by their birth families. I don't expect Lucy to have the answer, but any insight she might shed on this would be helpful. Thanks, Kelly Kay,

I’m just wondering if Lucy could address one more question the next time you talk with her.

She states several times that most children are abandoned because they are girls – and that makes sense as we understand the cultural preference for boys in light of the One Child Policy. So why would parents abandon an apparently healthy baby boy? Several of my cyber friends have received unexpected referrals of NSN baby boys, and I can’t imagine what they will tell their sons as those children begin to ask questions about why they weren’t kept by their birth families.

I don’t expect Lucy to have the answer, but any insight she might shed on this would be helpful.

Thanks,

Kelly

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