The Chinese adoption effect

Since 1991, American families have adopted more than 60,000 Chinese babies, almost all of them girls. But as the Olympics introduce the world to a modern, telegenic Beijing, one adoptive mother reflects on the grim realities of her daughter’s birthplace and copes with the knowledge that her own happiness came at the cost of another mother’s loss.

This web exclusive for Vanity Fair was written by Diane Clehane, a New York Times best-selling author and journalist.

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