— WHAT WE DO—
Adoption Dialogues
Online dialogue with adoptees
MBL 20th anniversary gift ——“Dialogue About Adoption”!
“Dialogue About Adoption” - Online events/every quarter started from January 2024. Now we have done 5th round of the conversation.
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Adoption Dialogue Round 2
Birth family searching, adoption document consultation
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Adoption Dialogue Round 3
An International Conversation
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Adoption Dialogue Round 4
How Are We? Lived Lives, Inner Realities, and Personal Experiences of Being Adopted
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Adoption Dialogue Round 5
Being Adopted: Difficulties, Struggles, and Hope
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Adoption Dialogue Round 6
Having Adopted: Concerns, Difficulties and Love
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Adoption Dialogue Round 7
When Adoptive Families Meet Birth Families
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More to come...
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Messages from Adoptees
- Searching for Birth Family
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Max：从十里铺到伊利诺伊 | Max: From Shilipu to Illinois
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Brenna：跨越大洋的重逢 | Brenna: A Homecoming Across the Ocean
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Shaosheen: 寻找身份的声音 | Shaosheen: Finding Her Voice
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克莱尔：回到生命开始的地方 | Clare: Back to Where Life Began
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玛雅：在生命尽头前的寻亲 | Maya: A Search Before Time Runs Out
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杜春佳：跨越二十年的爱 | Du Chunjia: Love Across Twenty Years
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江宜秀: 我来自哪里？| Isbel: Where Do I Come From?
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龙荣倩寻亲：从荷兰到成都
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雷清寻亲: 昌辉村口的记忆
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国菲菲的寻亲心愿
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常明羽：请帮助她回家
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甫意寻亲: 让人生更完整
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汉娜：“爸爸妈妈，我在找你们”
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奥黛丽: 我从哪里来
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Ella专访：何处是家
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荷兰女孩寻找亲生父母
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海外女孩无锡寻亲
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江兰：跨越30年的等待，只为与家人重逢
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苏春彬：请帮我寻找答案
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卡西迪寻亲
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乔伊寻亲之旅
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识途寻亲 - ICSA
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美籍华人浙江天台终圆团聚梦
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美国女孩跨洋团聚
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苏伢子终与亲人团圆
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二十八年再聚：一个跨大陆家庭重逢之路
The Long Road of Searching: When the tides of China’s family-planning era receded, they left behind 150,000 abandoned children whose lives began with loss — and hundreds of thousands of families torn apart. For many, “searching for one’s origins” has become a lifelong journey. The stories here are about those bound by blood yet separated by oceans, and how each of them has found their own path through the long and often difficult road of reunion.
From Anna
“They often tell me how lucky I am to live in the United States and to have parents who love me deeply,” Anna said thoughtfully. “And I agree — I am lucky. But I also believe that understanding my past is the only way I can truly move forward. Still, sometimes I can’t help wondering — isn’t it also a kind of luck to go through life without ever knowing the pain of being abandoned by your own parents?”
From Liz
“I am a child adopted from Chongqing. Some parents in China, for various reasons, had to send their children to welfare centres. Many of those children have since been adopted by families overseas. I, along with my friends in this video, am now hoping to find our birth parents.”
From Peter
“It’s a very complicated feeling. People always tell me that I’m lucky, yet they can hardly understand the pain and loss I’ve experienced in my life — even if, in many ways, I am lucky.”
From Lanni
“They all came from welfare centres in Chongqing and were adopted by foreign families through legal procedures. Since their adoption, none of the twenty children have ever returned to their hometown. The idea of searching for their birth parents as a group actually came from their adoptive parents. As the children grew older, they began to notice how they were different from their parents and naturally became curious about where they came from. Their adoptive parents didn’t want them to live with regret, so they asked me to help the children look for their biological families.”
From Mary
“I don’t understand why my birth parents abandoned me. Every time I think about the fact that they didn’t love me or didn’t want me, it hurts deeply. Am I American? But I have yellow skin and black hair — I look nothing like the other kids around me, not even like my parents. Everyone seems so curious about me, and I’m always answering those awkward questions. But who can answer mine? Am I Chinese? Then why did I grow up in America? Why hasn’t a single Chinese relative ever come to take me home?”
From Lily
“My birth parents might think I’m still in China. They probably don’t know that I was adopted by a family overseas,” said sixteen-year-old Lily, who once lived at the Qianjiang Welfare Centre in Chongqing before being adopted by an American couple. Unlike many abandoned children, Lily carries a bright smile — confident, open, and full of warmth.
MBL Adoptive Families
