Kids in China

Although there are children abandoned and in orphanages in China, when we were there we saw only people who cherished and adored their kids. There is no doubt that the people love their babies. The policies that control the number of kids a Chinese family can have are strange to us and hard to understand. One thing our guide Glenn told us was that when someone had twins , it counted as only one birth. I saw some adorable twins in a shop one day and here is the picture. Another strange story...we received a photo album of Laina as a gift from the orphanage director and when we opened it, there was a picture of her with an IV in her head. It freaked us out, of course, we were worried that she had had an operation, or had a medical condition that nobody told us about. Our guide explained to us that it is common practice to receive an IV treatment, at any age for a cold or flu. The IV's are put in the babies' heads so they won't be as inclined to pull it out. We were near a hospital one day, when going to all the kids' "finding spots"; one of the girls was found right outside the emergency room under an umbrella. There, we actually saw a cute little boy walking around with his mom, with an IV in his head! Later, we saw them heading home, so we felt reassured about it. I took his photo too. I am also posting a photo of a group of school kids in uniform, walking down the street one morning. There is a man on the sidewalk, I thought he was a beggar but Jimmy thought he was praying..maybe both? I'll see what other pix I can find of kids too.