Burdened with feeding nearly one fifth of the total
world's population, China instituted the controversial One
Child Policy in 1979 as a measure to help curtail its population
growth. The One Child Policy, combined with a cultural
tradition that places responsibility for aging parents with the
sons, has resulted in the large numbers of baby girls in Chinese
orphanages. While China struggles to find solutions to care for
and stabilize its vast population, it has meanwhile recognized
foreign adoption as one way to provide for the orphaned children
for whom resources are scarce. The Chinese government's concern
and cooperation in this effort has led to the development of
one of the most relatively efficient and stable adoption processes
in the world. World Child has been licensed with the China Center
of Adoption Affairs (CCAA) in Beijing since February 1992. For
a more detailed guide to our Asian programs adoption process
please visit World Child's Adoption Paper Chase.