Many adoptive families try to search for the roots of their children.
Most of them feel frustrated and lost during the search. All three of them are from Shanghai. He wrote this article in September of 1998 during his third adoption trip to Shanghai. I am sitting in a hotel room in Shanghai once again thinking about this question. My third daughter adopted from this city is peacefully asleep on the bed taking her afternoon nap, which allows me time to also sleep or, as I am today, think.