I just viewed a documentary on this same subject last week, sadly it is still going on in China, and baby girls are still even killed at birth, some are in orphanages and the conditions are apalling there, they have their legs tied to chairs, and become like brain damaged children, it is a terrible situation.

I understand what you are saying Donna, infact I was saying to my husband if we win lotto I wish to adopt a child from Russia or somewhere, his answer was like your's well why not here, plenty of children available here, of course we would want an older child, so that is not the reason for me.

I look at it this way, our children here are well looked after, the orphanages are great in comparison, I feel the conditions some of these poor children live in are inhumane, and that is why if I had the money I would personally choose a child from another country, also because of our age, we would not be eligible in NZ to adopt, we would be considered too old.