American-raised Jenna journeys back to Wuhan in search of her biological parents
Like many adopted children happily raised overseas, she still longs to meet the couple who brought her into the world
A young woman who was abandoned in Wuhan several months after she was born and was raised in the United States returned to China recently to find her parents, a local newspaper reports.
Jenna Cook, the English name given to her by her adoptive mother Margaret Cook, was abandoned at a bus station on March 24, 1992, according to the report in the Chongqing Morning News.
Jennan, who is now 25, was taken in by the Wuhan Infant Asylum and lived for a short time with a foster family in Wuhan before she was adopted by Margaret in June that year.
Margaret took Jenna home to Massachusetts and encouraged her to learn Chinese from an early age.
Jenna was the among the first batch of 200 children Chinese to be adopted by Americans. Since then, more than 80,000 Chinese children, mostly girls, were adopted by American families.
