I don't get it. The Chicoms were so worried about over-population they implemented the one child per family law but at the same time they make it difficult for foreigners to adopt orphans? But I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Get government involved (anywhere - not just China) and whatever it is you want to get done becomes more complicated, more expensive and more time-consuming.
They ran into an unexpected problem with the foreign adoptions. The number of children being abandoned soared once the foreign adoptions started because the families hoped their children would be adopted.
"I don't get it. The Chicoms were so worried about over-population they implemented the one child per family law but at the same time they make it difficult for foreigners to adopt orphans?"
I don't think they're trying to make it more difficult to adopt children in China, I think they're just trying to take steps to ensure that they're going to good homes and you can't fault them on that.
Just look at how many Russian orphans are adopted and end up dead, abuses or sold into slavery (just inside the United States).
You have to look at it this way, just because the country has population problem, it doesnt mean they can just pull the same thing France during the colonial times "The Kings Daughers" and send their orphans who would have became whores anyway to marry in the New World.
The Commies want to ensure these kids don't become Druggies, whores, failures and so on. Especially since most of these orphans are women. These commies may be brutal, merciless thugs, but they aren't going to leave one of their own impose a bad image of them when the NYT next headline is "Crack Whore Killed, Has AIDS too"