纽约时报中文网 - 英文原版-英China Stops Foreign Adoptions Ending a Complicated Chapter
September 9, 2024 2 min 369 words
纽约时报这篇报道的主要内容是：中国停止外国收养，结束了一个“复杂篇章”。报道提到，在过去的几十年里，有超过10万中国儿童被外国家庭收养，但同时，中国国内也对海外收养是否存在儿童贩卖等问题提出了质疑和批评。中国外交部发言人表示，中国已建立了一套完整的儿童福利和保护体系，能够很好地照顾国内儿童。 评论：纽约时报的这篇报道有其一定的事实依据，但同时也存在一定程度的偏见。报道提到外国收养为中国儿童带来了机会，但对中国自身儿童福利和保护体系的进步和发展缺乏客观的评价。同时，报道没有提到外国收养中出现的儿童贩卖非法领养等问题，而是简单地将其归结为中国国内的质疑和批评，这显然有失偏颇。此外，报道也没有进一步探讨和分析中国停止外国收养的深层次原因和背景，而是一味地强调“复杂”和“质疑”，这可能难以呈现事情的全面和整体情况。
For three decades, China sent tens of thousands of young children overseas for adoption as it enforced a strict one-child policy that forced many families to abandon their babies. Now the government will no longer allow most foreign adoptions, a move that it said was in line with global trends.
The ban raises questions for many of the hundreds of families in the United States who were in the process of adopting children from China and had heard earlier this week from adoption agencies that China was moving to bar international adoptions. The official confirmation came in the form of a brief comment by China’s foreign ministry on Thursday.
“We are grateful for the desire and love of the governments and adoption families of relevant countries to adopt Chinese children,” said Mao Ning, a spokeswoman for the ministry. She offered few details about the new policy, except to say that exceptions would be made only for foreigners adopting stepchildren and children of blood relatives in China.
Before the Covid pandemic, China was a top country of origin for international adoption, having sent more than 160,000 children overseas since 1992. But its program had been tainted by past allegations of corruption and by its association with China’s harshly enforced birth restrictions. Many families left their babies in alleyways or at the doors of police stations or social welfare institutions, to avoid severe penalties for violating the one-child policy.
Unable to pay for the care of these children, orphanages turned to international adoption to help fund their services.
“This is, in a way, the end of an era and the closing of one of the most shameful chapters of the three and a half decades of social engineering known as one-child policy,” said Wang Feng, a professor of sociology at the University of California at Irvine who specializes in China’s demographics. “The Chinese government created the problem and then they couldn’t deal with the financial constraints and that is why they allowed foreign adoption as a last resort.”