‘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

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.