thousand Chinese children adopted by American families, their family life in the United States, not only
Changed his life, but also affect the adoptive family and adoptive family communities, and schools,
through the adoption of Chinese children, the more Americans learn more about China,
Chinese elements into the United States through these children, families and communities, we can say that
tens of thousands of adoptive families and children in China is to promote cultural exchanges between the
United States, understanding
Ambassador and friendly folk.
Donna first met Faith
The end of August public television (PBS) aired an award-winning documentary, "I love you mom" "Wo Ai Ni
(I Love You) Mommy", a documentary to line drawing
Ji describes the way an American family of 8-year-old Chinese girl adopted the process, content,
realistic, and this is tens of thousands of true portrayal of one of the adoptive family. The film not
only makes
We see the cultural differences between the United States, but also to make people see American families
with Chinese families in common.
Donna, who lives in Long Island, New York, and her husband Jeff have two biological sons: Jason, age 15,
Judd 12. Two years ago, they have adopted a Chinese girl Da La
In Da La 3-year-old, they decided to adopt a Chinese girl. Da pull the youngest want to maintain the
status of the family, Donna and Jeff respect children's ideas,
Da La decided to reclaim a sister. Their adoption by government agencies, Guangdong, China, to Guangzhou
to get back an 8-year-old girl swimming Fang Sui (the abandoned babies in Guangzhou Fangcun
Found in a parking lot area, convention, where to find to get to that place names names.) Daughter Donna
to take the new Mingfei Si (Faith)
, And others adopted child is different is that Faith has been 8 years old, had to understand the
personnel, so Faith to accept new families, new parents have more difficulty. In this documentary
Many aspects of inking, Donna and her husband Jeff describes how to love then Nafis, Faith is how to spend
the most difficult period of adaptation, a lovely woman Donna and Jeff
Of children.
Documentary several scenes worth mentioning:
Lens One: When Donna Faith adopted in Guangdong, see the Faith and is responsible for the temporary
custody of her foster parents in China a good relationship, ask why the Chinese foster parents to let
Faith
Adoption by foreigners? Foster parents said, because Faith physically handicapped, the future is not easy
to find a job big will be discriminated against, or to go abroad is better. See here,
I think of the Academia Sinica in Taiwan, the famous historian and professor at the University of
Pittsburgh Hsu Cho-yun thing. Hsu Cho-yun childhood disability,
Donna Faith at the airport a
Bad in the line, he said after fame, he is lucky, because he went to the United States, not only do not
discriminate against persons with disabilities in American society, also take care of people with
disabilities in all aspects of
, To provide many learning disabilities, living benefits, convenience and help, making him the chance to
University studies, this has some of the achievements now.
Lens II: Donna, after returning to the hotel with Faith, for Faith to undress, after a coat off, there is
also sweaters, sweater off until later, there is also a
Sweater, Donna laughed and said, honey, how many clothes you really wear ah? The next shot is with Faith
to Donna and her foster parents, a farewell to her
Foster mother, Faith took a meeting on the hand that you wear so little, not cold? The two lenses, what
would the United States and the culture in the dressing point out differences
To (in the dress, the differences between the United States is not small, such as China's clothing like
the colorful multi-color, the United States with a concise heavier clothing; Chinese men in the Xia Tianxi
Fun to wear short-sleeved shirt, I see on TV to wear short-sleeved shirt and white tie, officials are
common, but very few U.S. officials white-collar people wear short-sleeved shirt, not to
Said with a tie.)
Lens Three: When Donna took Faith to a new report home after school when Faith got out holding a lot of
books, depends on the ground do not go, Donna Faith insisted that he would
Textbooks to take home, Faith said, too heavy, I can not even move, and books onto the floor. Donna looked
very angry, but when she found out that Faith's hand impaired, could not carry
Something heavy, deeply their own right, attached to the Faith say sorry. See this scene, I think American
parents and Chinese parents in the education their children are indeed
Different, under normal circumstances, the child if the books too heavy for the children of Chinese
parents must take the book up, as Donna as likely to have to take the children themselves.
Faith and the foster parents a
Lens Four: Faith in the Donna home living for some time, the English greatly grow in the New Year when she
was far away across the ocean with the foster parents, a phone call, has been
Do not speak Chinese by the General Assembly, and looked at her mention I have scene, both for her happy
and sad for her, pleased that she quickly adapted to new life in the United States, sad
She so quickly forgotten their mother tongue.
Lens five: in Donna, a party at a grand, Faith wearing a beautiful dance dress dancing, cheering friends
in all the pro was thrown under the half-empty. Don looked at
Tina laughed so happy, people feel deeply that even if no blood, just as great maternal love.
According to the statistics of public television in 2009, U.S. citizens from 106 countries adopted a
thirteen thousand children, of which China accounted for 23%, 18% in Ethiopia, Russia
Sri Lanka 12%, South Korea 8%, Guatemala 6%. As more adopted Chinese children, many families organize
themselves, each other to provide information and establish
Family support network, there are currently more than 100 such organizations. The "Chinese families with
children" (Families with Children from China, FCC
) Is relatively large national organization. The cost of children adopted from China is estimated between
20,000 to 25,000 U.S. dollars.
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