‘How much is conscience worth?’: Chinese woman rejects birth parents who gave her up and want her to ‘get along’ with brother she has never met


By Fran Lu

Two decades after they abandoned her at a month old, Chinese woman faces constant pressure from birth parents for a reunion. Now a mother herself, woman steadfastly refuses to return and pays heartfelt tribute to foster parents who raised her. — SCMP

A woman in China has refused to reunite with her birth parents – almost two decades after they gave her up at birth because “she was a girl”.

The woman, surnamed Luo, 25, from eastern China’s Jiangsu province, said on the social media platform Douyin that her birth parents abandoned her when she was a month old.

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