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Testing today for a match tomorrow.
At DNA Connect, we work to connect birth families in China with their adopted children — most of whom have reached an age where self-awareness and curiosity have sparked an interest in their beginnings.
Our work has been profiled in documentaries and news stories all over the world by
Amazon Prime Video, The New York Times, PBS, NBC News, The New Yorker, and many more!
Roughly 120,000 babies
born in China since the early 1990s have been adopted internationally — about 80,000 of them by families in the United States. Many of these children are now adults and want to learn, if possible, who their birth parents are.
And we've been making progress:
But matches can't be made without DNA.
Whether an adoptive child is searching now or in 50 years, that birth family connection can't ever be made without the birth parent's DNA.
Therein lies our challenge.
Our Goal at DNAConnect.Org
is to seize the opportunities today to gather DNA of birth parents in China to enable matches with their birth children in the future.
Changing Lives
The work we do is extremely satisfying.
We get to listen to and cry with the people whose lives are forever changed when we contact them about a match.
Below are the stories from both birth parents and their located children.
For those who have donated to this work through funds, time, or telling others:
Thank you. You have made this happen.
But there's still more work to be done.
Also see:
~ Matches ~
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