I’d read the new adoption restrictions, Jen, and had to chuckle at that last one. I’m sure the no-Prozac restriction rules out 85% of American women, even the ones who manage to stay thin and snag a husband. Is there some prejudice in China against what we see as relatively benign medications such as SSRIs?

I would think if they wanted to keep more orphan girls on ice, as it were, for the parented baby boys, they’d juist restrict foreign adoption altogether, or perhaps limit it to less desirable children. Maybe now those orphanages will become little wifey holding pens, where the girls are taught intensive Chinese home ec. and exotic man-pleasing bedroom maneuvers. It’s like a Margaret Atwood novel.

Maybe this is a way to keep more girls (90% of the children adopted from China are girls, of course) in country – no matter they are in orphanages or foster care their entire life.

And I agree with your last paragraph 100%. It’s worse than a shame – it’s sickening.