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| | China Adoption Program at Sunny Ridge Family Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | Sunny Ridge Family Center is licensed as a child welfare agency by the Illinois Department of Child and Family Services (#019976), and by the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration, Division of Family and Children, as a child placing agency. |
 | | Issues such as poverty, natural disasters, movement from the country side to the city, an increase in divorce, illegitimacy, and the population control policy for the Han majority are all reasons for Chinese children made available for domestic and international adoption. |
 | | A strong cultural reason, especially in the country side, of a preference for a male child contributes to the fact that a majority of the children available for adoption are female. |
| www.sunnyridge.org /china/CHINA2.htm (423 words) |
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