What happened to the Chinese children brought to Britain for adoption in the 1960s?

By Rally on 1-22-2013 in China, International Adoption, Reunion, UK

The following article gives some followup to over 100 mostly abandoned girls who were brought from Hong Kong to Britain in the 1960s. The British Chinese Adoption Study explanation can be found here. There is one reunion story told but “[f]or the 86 per cent who weren’t relinquished but abandoned, contact with birth families is a no-go area,” explains Julia Feast, policy and research consultant for the British Association for Adoption and Fostering, who has spent the last four years heading up a study of 72 of them, the findings of which are launched tomorrow. “In fact, our study found very few have even thought about tracing. Maybe it’s a form of self-protection or perhaps it’s simply an acceptance that the door is shut and they know that they won’t find anything.”