04 Dec Chinese Girl Adopted By American Parents Reunites With Birth Parents After Reading The Note They Left Her

When Catherine Su Pohler celebrated her 21st birthday, she was excitedly preparing for a semester as an exchange student in Spain. However, before she could embark upon the trip, she had some questions for her parents, Ken and Ruth.

Kati, as her family calls her, always knew she was adopted. From a very young age it was evident that she didn’t share the same parents as her two brothers. At least, not biologically.

Her Asian heritage didn’t completely fit with the almost exclusively caucasian neighborhood in which she grew up, but she rarely questioned her origin. “I had a solid, good childhood,” she told the South China Morning Post. “Everyone knew I was adopted, obviously, so I was never asked about it.”

However, unbeknown to Kati, her story was not as straightforward as she had been led to believe by her adoptive parents, who had tried to shield her from the difficult truth in order to protect her. Her parents’ decision to conceal the full story was one that troubled them deeply, especially when Kati’s biological parents began to persistently reach out to her.

Qian and Xu Fenxiang had been left with a deep void in their life after they’d had to abandon their second daughter, whom they named Jingzhi. Due to China’s one-child policy, the young couple were unable to keep their much-loved daughter, for they already had a three-year-old child.

The couple had long craved a second child, and despite the strict laws in the country which forbade them from having any more children, they decided to try for another baby. When Qian became pregnant, they told themselves that they could escape penalty by concealing their baby from the world. Living in a busy city, they thought they could go undetected. But, they were wrong.

“We thought we could get away with it since we lived so far away from the family planning cadres in our village,” Xu explains. “We thought the sheer size of the city would give us cover.” However, they soon realized they’d been naive.

Terrified of the heavy fines they faced if they were discovered by the sophisticated spy system, the couple decided they’d have to forfeit their child. However, at six months pregnant, it was too late for Qian to join 300 million other mothers who had abortions while the one-child policy was in place between 1979 and 2015.

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