‘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
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.
She only found out at the age of 19 when she saw her birth parents, who broke the shocking news to her.
Ever since, she said, they kept harassing her, accusing her of “having no conscience” and being “vicious” for refusing a reunion. The birth parents also accused her foster parents of not educating her well.
Luo revealed that her birth parents lived in a self-built village house when she was born, suggesting that they could well afford to bring her up.
Two years after they abandoned their baby girl, they had a boy.
