China's adopted children return from overseas to seek their roots

By Agence France-Presse

Jul 02, 2024 12:16 am

DIANJIANG, China — At an empty concrete lot in southwestern China, Loulee Wilson scoops a handful of stones into a bag — a memento from the site where she believes she was abandoned as a baby.

Wilson, an American college student, was born in China but given away by parents presumed fearful of violating the East Asian country's one-child policy, under which families were punished for having additional children until the strategy was ended eight years ago.

CHILD FROM CHINA Corinne Wilson (right) and Loulee Wilson watch a woman looking through Loulee’s childhood photos, in Dianjiang county, Chongqing municipality, southwestern China, on June 7, 2024. AFP PHOTO

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