Hmm, wonder if they’ll allow gay parents to adopt again now that orphanages are overflowing… interesting that China only recently decided to have more control over what kinds of families deserve relinquished kids, and there are now more and more kids without any parents at all as a result.

Financial coercion is forcing parents to surrender their beloved babies for adoption. This is a tragedy of huge proportions. Why are richer North Americans lining up to exploit and take advantage of this situation? Why aren’t people demanding that Taiwan respect international human rights conventions and provide sufficient financial support to these families such that they do not have to lose their children. The unending emotional damage to a mother who loses her child to adoption is indescribable.

There is an interesting article up at Monthly Review:

http://www.monthlyreview.org/091214dongping.php

Quoting:
>>As expenditures of the township government increase, the ways to extract money from farmers multiply, now that the agricultural tax has been eliminated. Many township governments use family planning as a way to get money from farmers. In order to get a permit to have a child, farmers have to bribe the village and township government officials. Some township and village leaders sell birth permits to farmers who have money. In some places, local officials even encourage rich farmers to have more children so that they can get “fines” from them. In such a social context, farmers question the political legitimacy of the central government, as well as county and village officials. Another way of making money is the confiscation of land by local and regional officials, who then sell the land at a profit for “development,” without adequately compensating the farmers — thus adding greatly to the rural ferment.”<<

This points up the lie that it is a horrid and alien Communist China enforcing family planning laws; it is in fact the local comprador class extracting profit from the peasant/working class. So you have one bourgeois class internal to China helping out the bourgeoisie in the United States obtain babies at a healthy profit. No wonder they protest MORE when the supply dries up.