Uncertainty for families as China ends foreign adoptions

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17. Well, I guess my friend was lucky then

She and her husband wanted to start a family, but she has a condition called "retinitis pigmentosa". She was already legally blind and couldn't drive. They disease is inheritable and she didn't want to take the chance that she would pass it on to a biological child.

She and her husband applied to adopt in the US, but were denied because she was going blind. She would have been free to have a biological child, of course. So their only option was to adopt internationally. They adopted a little girl from China, and they all lived happily ever after.