Lost & Found 
Stories Beyond the One-Child Policy

The mini-podcast, Lost & Found: Stories Beyond the One-Child Policy, started as a project for my Chinese culture and history class. The goal of this project was to discover more about one unintended consequence of China’s One-Child policy: the international adoption of millions of abandoned female babies and how it impacted their and their adoptive families’ lives.

 

This project centered around learning more about the lives of some abandoned female babies I personally know as well as adoptive parents of abandoned female babies. For this I was able to interview three Chinese adoptees I personally know at Georgia Tech. Additionally, as a Chinese adoptee (and one of the abandoned female babies), I interviewed my mom and my dad as well as family friends who also adopted from China.  ​

Although the interviews can be listened to in any order, I recommend listening to the interviews from top to bottom on this site. This is the order I interviewed each person. There are some details that are referred to in the later interviews that I more fully explained or learned after interviewing previous interviewees. Each interviewee has had unique experiences and lives, truly highlighting how China’s One-Child policy had so many different impacts. 

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Additionally, these interviews were minimally edited, mainly for clarity or removing technical mishaps. This was done with the purpose of maintaining the interviewees’ authentic opinions and emotions regarding their experiences with the One-Child policy. 

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For more background on who I chose to interview, I met all three adoptees included in this project through China Care at Georgia Tech. For further context, China Care is a student-run organization that mainly helps to fundraise for the non-profit, One Sky Foundation. One Sky raises money to help vulnerable young children in Asia with growth and education needs. Here in Atlanta, other than fundraising, China Care hosts monthly playgroups for Chinese adoptees in the Atlanta area to help them connect with their birth heritage.