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What is it like to give a child up for adoption in Japan?

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I might not be best qualified for this one, since I'm the recipient of an adopted child (two actually) in Japan, not the one giving the child up. How it is emotionally, I cannot answer... read more

Hardly surprising: people don't casually give up a child, there is always some pressing situation making it happen, and "situations" come in so many flavours. I can say a bit about systems, in case that's the intent of the question. Japan doesn't really have adoption agencies in the way we'd expect in the UK and many other places. read more

My wife and I (both non-Japanese) adopted two Japanese boys, four years apart. I can say a bit about systems: Japan doesn't really have adoption agencies in the way we'd expect in the UK and many other places. read more

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