Searching for Your Chinese Birth FamilyThis book was written to benefit the 120,000 Chinese adoptees and their adoptive parents, who began adopting these children (mostly girls) beginning in the late 1990s and continuing to this day. Most adoptive families are provided very little information by the Chinese Center for Children's Welfare and Adoption (CCCWA) about their child's early heritage. According to the CCCWA nearly all of these children were abandoned by their birth parents.