China ended its international adoption program. People from other countries will no longer be allowed to adopt Chinese children unless they’re relatives, the country announced yesterday. The program, hatched at the height of China’s overpopulation, was the source of tens of thousands of adoptions around the world since the 1990s: US families alone adopted 82,000 children from China between 1999 and 2023, according to the State Department.
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But China is now dealing with declining birth rates, while much of the rest of the world also tightens restrictions on international adoptions.
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s: Morning Brew