One week before Ivy and Noah Cleveland were to fly to China to adopt their 3-year-old daughter Ruby, their plans were indefinitely canceled due to the coronavirus , now a global health emergency that’s infected 15 people in the United States and almost 64,000 people in mainland China.
The Clevelands had spent two and a half years mired in the application process to adopt Ruby, who was abandoned behind a toilet inside a hospital at six months old. “Because of our Christian faith, we have always wanted to care for orphans and giving money wasn’t enough,” says Ivy. “China was the only country we pursued because it allows you to choose the sex of the baby and we wanted a girl.”
Susan Cox, vice president of policy and external affairs at Holt, tells Yahoo Lifestyle that of the 250 families applying for Chinese adoptions, 10 have already purchased plane tickets to China to pick up their children and five were on the verge of making travel plans. “A mother recently told me that today was the day she would have met her son,” says Cox. “It’s heartbreaking.”
Cory and Allison Singleton are also being prevented from meeting a new child. On Jan. 29, they were scheduled to leave for China to officially adopt their soon-to-be daughter Lottie, 7. However, a phone call from their agency Lifeline Children’s Services postponed the trip. The Singletons have never met their little girl, who doesn’t speak English, and have communicated only through a video call several months ago. When Lottie does arrive, she’ll have a bedroom full of Barbie dolls, a sister for a roommate, and an adoptive mother who teaches English online to Chinese students.
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