Penelope, a 10-year-old Chinese girl, will be joining her family, who reside in Kentucky, her parents had informed her.
Grace, who was also adopted from China, did not have a left forearm at birth. Penelope also has a “serious but manageable” particular need, according to her mother Aimee Welch, though she did not want to reveal it.
Following the birth of a nephew without arms, the Welch family—who have four biological sons—looked into adopting children with impairments.
He showed us all what a person with limb disabilities is capable of doing when they have the proper love and assistance. His birth put us on the path to become adoptive parents.
We think that every individual is valuable and deserving of respect, regardless of their differences.
But their ambitions were postponed by the pandemic.
Then, in September, China declared that it would no longer allow foreign adoptions, even in situations when adoptee children and their families had already been linked.
The arduous anticipation will notably dictate the destinies of China’s most susceptible juveniles – those with exceptional requirements.
Beijing’s civil affairs ministry stated that 95% of international adoptions between 2014 and 2018 involved children with impairments, while current numbers are not easily accessible.
