From Reuters:
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New York lawyer Meg Tolan is the mother of three adopted daughters, all of them from China, but if she wanted to adopt another, she couldn’t. Beijing no longer considers her a suitable parent.

The restrictions, to be implemented later this year, have led U.S. parents of Chinese children to question whether it is a bid by China, which has experienced rapid economic growth in recent years, to shrug off a perception that it is a poor country that cannot look after its own children.

China has been the No. 1 choice for U.S. foreign adoptions for the past six years, according to the State Department. The Chinese government says four-fifths of its foreign adoptions in the past decade went to U.S. families.[Full Text]