Feelings of helplessness turned to relief yesterday when parents of adopted mainland children learned their families could be together.
Taxi driver Mr Lo asked why, if adopted children of other nationalities could stay with their Hong Kong parents, his adopted seven-year-old twin sons had been denied a place in his home.
'I could not see the fairness of the law in Hong Kong. If you adopt children from places overseas outside of China, you can easily have the children here,' he said.
'But if you adopt Chinese children, you have many problems.' In 1988, Mr Lo and his wife were denied a Hong Kong child because, Mr Lo says, he was poorly educated and had a mortgage to pay.
The couple legally adopted the boys when they were just one month old. The boys were cared for in Guangdong by Mr Lo's ageing mother and a paid helper while he fought authorities in Hong Kong and the mainland to bring them home.
He travelled six hours every weekend for the past seven years to visit his sons in Dongguan. He said he only once gave up hope of uniting the family: 'Just for one second - then never again.
