STOLEN CHILDREN channel4

[NotAnOtter]

heart wrenching
puts the mccanns plight in perspective

Does anyone know if they ever found Chen Jae?

gosh - i did not know it was old- how can we find out?

i watched the dying rooms when pg with my dd

i remember one girl Mei-Ming
I still think of her
too sad to justify a sad face

its only the dying rooms documentary thats old NAO the Stolen Children is new. Don't know if Channel 4 will be doing an update on it on the website. Sadly I think statisically the odds of them finding her are slim.

You're welcome Issy - having been at the west london overseas adoption group on Sunday I couldn't not comment. It is unfair to the parents who believe that giving their child up for adoption is doing the best thing for the child in the terrible circumstances they face and unfair to the adoptive parents who work very hard to make a home for these children and een unfairer on teh chidlrne to imply that both of their sets of parents entered into some kind of financial transaction. I have no idea why the notion persist that loads of children are trafficked for adoption. Most children are not trafficked for anything like as savoury as adoption.

Anyway the programme whilst heart-rending was "must-see TV" in my view however hard to watch. Knocked Bringing up baby into a cocked hat and made it look childish somehow.

kewcumber - i hear you

i 'spoke' on the Claire Verity must hang threads and tried to express this sentiment. i dont get mumsnetters sometimes
thoasands of postings and hundreds of complaints of brutality and child abuse cos a warm dry well fed baby has a closed door between it and its parents

this program shocked me although i knew it would be harrowing

the dying rooms and scenes from it stay in my mind forever

i dont know how many people posted on this thread - a pityful number

The programme made me so ANGRY. I knew of course about the one child policy, but the scenes with those distraught parents who had had their son stolen and that young couple who gave their daughter up as they felt they had no other option, were heartbreaking. And the scene reuniting the 16 year old with her family-the way she was just hugging her daughter in silence, really moved me.

I cannot believe China is such a superpower and it treats its people that way. And we use so many products produced there and the f*ing Olympics are there. It is staggering. Those poor people.

This was the saddest programme I have seen in a very long time.

My heart ached for those parents, and the young couple who had no option in their mind but to sell their baby.

I am ashamed that we live in a world where human life is worth so little; I was aware of China's One Child Policy but had no idea of the implications. I always thought China looks like a beautiful country and so fascinating, but now I just feel sick at their hypocrisy and disregard for their people.

it is quite un fathomable
i dont understand why they stay

Unfortunately China isn't the only place this is happening. It's rife in West Africa where it's been going on for generations. But there it's more like the slave trade, because parents are selling their children not as children to be brought up in another family, but as servants. The same thing is happening in Saudi Arabia, where wealthy people buy girls from Indonesia, effectively slaves who are held prisoner by their owners, and can be treated in the most brutal way if they try to escape, and they never find their way home.