Tag: adoptions
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Chinese adoptees say they feel conflicted after China announces end to international adoptions
After China announced earlier this month that it is suspending international adoptions, Maze Felix, a 28-year-old Chinese adoptee, said they were struck with a heady mix of “anger, relief, grief, confusion — all of it.” Felix, who uses they/them pronouns, is among the more than 80,000 children who were adopted from China to the U.S.…
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Russian parliament backs ban on adoptions from countries that allow gender transitions
MOSCOW — The Russian parliament on Wednesday gave its initial backing to legislation that would ban nationals from countries that allow people to change their gender from adopting Russian children, a move it said was essential to uphold “traditional values.” Russia itself last year introduced a ban on people legally or medically changing their gender, part of…