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Seeds of Love (140) Jenna Cook: The adopted girl claimed by 50 birth families

Chinese Adopted Daughters Family Reunion July 25, 2014

Chinese Adopted Daughters Family Reunion July 25, 2014 Source: Flickr Steven Depolo

When she was 20 and studying at Yale University, Jenna was given a grant to travel to China to begin her own search of birth family.


Jenna was one of the first wave of about 200 Chinese babies to go to American families. Many others followed - an estimated 80,000, mostly girls, have now gone to live in the US, and an additional 40,000 to the Netherlands, Spain and the UK.


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