Hi, I just had to comment on this. The throwaway paper is VERY inaccurate.
There are many strict rules and regs on who can adopt chinese girl
children. In fact, there is a U.S. Webpage that gives advice on who
will be successful and who will not - the rules make it almost impossible
for a single person to adopt a child at all, and for many married
persons to do so. For example, you are not allowed to adopt in
most cases if you already have even one child . Here is one webpage
address that begins to explan the problems AND has links to
the Office of Immigration webpage....Jan Bogstad bogstajm@uwec edu
http://www.adoption.com/alliance/china.html
At 08:08 9/27/97 -0900, you wrote:
>According to a throwaway paper out of Phoenix, AZ, American women are
>adopting the little Chinese girl babies who have been left to starve in
>China's orphanages. The paper, THE ECHO, claims a lot of these women are
>single women and Lesbian couples. Miraculously, the Chinese government is
>permitting it instead of playing dog-in-the-manger or yowling about
>furriners & preverts. This puts them several up on the late unlamented
>Rumanian regime.
>
>ObSF - a story in ANALOG years ago suggested that the vampires of Eastern
>Europe had instituted their various regimes as a means of ranching their
>prey rather than depending on the hunt. Kim Newman took up the suggestion
>later in ANNO DRACULA and BLOODY RED BARON. Romantic it's not.
>
>Patricia (Pat) Mathews
>mathews@unm.edu
>
>
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