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DNAConnect has been featured or mentioned in many feature articles, documentaries, and news stories around the United States and the world for our work and successes in reuniting birth families with adoptees.

Read about what's been happening with DNAConnect.Org, China adoptees, and their birth families:

Amazon Prime Original

(also a Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winner)

“One Child Nation”

(2019)

The New York Times

"Can I Use My Adopted Child's DNA to Find His Biological Parents?"

(March 1, 2023)

PBS

"This Couple Finds Answers for Adopted Daughters From China"

(March 26, 2020)

The New York Festivals

“The Day I Gave Up My Daughter”

Silver Award Winner (2024)

Salt Lake Tribune

"Utahns who reunite stolen children and families are part of ‘One Child Nation’"

Documentary (March 28, 2020)

NBC News

In connecting Chinese adoptees to birth families, couple makes discovery about China's one-child policy"

(March 30, 2020)

The New Yorker

"The Chinese Adoptees Who Were Stolen"

(May 23, 2025)

Lansing State Journal

"She thought she was abandoned in China 20 years ago. Then her birth parents found her"

Story of Zoe Halbeisen, Charlotte, NC (June 3, 2019)

Dayton Daily News - Video

Dayton Daily News - Article

"DNA unites Centerville girl with Chinese birth family" (Video News)

"Centerville teen, adopted as an infant, discovers birth family" (Article)

Story of Lily Poynter, Centerville, Ohio (November 28, 2019)

Salt Lake City Weekly

"China Girl"

Story of Maeson Dewey, Salt Lake City (March 3, 2020)

Noordhollands Dagblad (Netherlands)

"Lilou searched for her biological parents in China: 'Searching for a needle in a haystack'"

Story of Lilou van der Hoven, Netherlands (December 5, 2024)