Adoptive Parents Seek ‘Lost’ Son’s Family in China

A US couple who adopted a boy in 2010 from Shanghai has enlisted the help of lawyer/microblogger Zhang Zhiwei at http://t.sina.com.cn/ . He has been involved in the campaign to find abducted children.

“The boy, Wu Yongfei, who believes he’s a Sichuan Province native, said he got lost at the age of five in 2006, while visiting his aunt and uncle in Shanghai with his parents.

Wu said he went out to play after lunch, but when he returned to the door there was no answer.

Thinking his family may be out looking for him, the boy started walking but got lost, as he didn’t understand the Shanghai dialect and was not familiar with the city, his adoptive mother, Julia Norris, said in a letter.”

Four months after being found by a cleaner on the streets, he arrived at the Shanghai Children’s Home.

“Zhang said he had helped find the biological parents of several Chinese children adopted by overseas couples. If they are found, the families will discuss who the boy will live with.”

Crabbina says: A Chinese boy who remembers getting lost while with his family should NOT be allowed to be internationally adopted. Why did this happen? Why wasn’t a search undergone? Who profited?

Adoptive parents seek ‘lost’ son’s family

[Shanghai Daily 3/25/11 by Jia Feishang]

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