China and its culture date back thousands and thousands of years. For us this majestic legacy brings both the beauty of its countryside and people, which are veiled in traditions that long ago became anchored in its culture through the manifold of history. China is a country where extraordinary cities with bustling businesses, universities and advanced high-tech commerce are neighbored by rolling hills, rivers, mountains and wood lands. There family farms can be found in rural villages where the pace and way of life have remained almost unchanged for centuries.

China's Adoption Program Through New Life Offers Parents:

• Many healthy children available between the ages of ten (10) months and two (2) years
• An easy paper process with our help
• An incredible trip of a lifetime to China with a stay less than two (2) weeks
• Comfortable travel staying in fantastic hotels, all arrangements made for you by New Life
• A guide available to help you 24/7 throughout your trip
• Being united with the child of your dreams

China is a very large country, with approximately 1.4 billion. In 1973 the Chinese government established a one child per family law. The purpose of the law was only to eliminate the economic hardships China was beginning to face; it was not (and never has been) intended to hurt China’s families. China was reaching a critical juncture where they were having difficulty housing, feeding and employing their people, and the officials knew it would only get worse if the population continued to grow. This new law was established in hopes of eliminating the growth problem to ensure economic prosperity for the well-being of China’s citizens and families.

One profound element of the Chinese culture is the dedication to family; families take care of one another regardless of age or gender. A young man enters manhood accepting that he will be responsible for taking care of his parents when they are no longer capable of providing for themselves. Traditionally, when a female marries she becomes part of her husband’s family, and her responsibility is to care for his parents, not her own. This combination of the cultural and socio-economic factors created a situation where almost all of the children available for adoption are females. Separating from a child, or abandoning a child, is a sacrifice for any parent, an emotional hardship that is impossible to understand how any parent could endure the experience.

When parents abandon their child they do not desert the child in a place where it could be hurt; the child is taken to very public areas where they will be easily found. Typically a child will be left on the steps of a library, a bus station, outside a factory or on a busy street corner. In these spots the child will be readily seen and quickly taken to the proper authorities.  When the child is discovered it is taken to the authorities who make sure the child receives medical attention and is placed in a secure home-like environment; a welfare home or foster home. There the child receives not only the essentials needed to grow; they are nurtured and cared for by dedicated care providers who want to help.

By 1992 the Chinese Government and the China Center of Adoption Affairs (CCAA) opened their doors to almost 14 countries in the world, which offered parents the opportunity to build and expand their families through adoption. In the United States alone, American families adopt over 5,000 Chinese children each year. The adoption program through China is a humanitarian answer to a highly complex situation. It provides homes for orphans, supports the ongoing improvements of the welfare houses for the orphans who are not adopted and offers meaningful employment to women. Although the Chinese government has provided the best possible care to the thousands of orphans in welfare and foster homes, they are aware children most greatly benefit from loving, caring homes with parents who are able to provide for them throughout their life.