Every year thousands of parents in the United States adopt babies from China. In the last five years more than 30 thousand children have been taken in by American parents. Now a series of newspaper reports suggests that some of those children were actually stolen from their birthparents in China.

Ruthann and Greg McGill hope that is not the case when it comes to their five and a half year old daughter Narissa whom they adopted from an orphanage in Southern China. They say they would have a very hard time giving her back. However they’re pretty sure their adoption was legitimate because Narissa has health issues including facial paralysis, which could be expensive for Chinese parents to have treated.

Still the overall disturbing news is prompting many adoptive parents here in the US to conduct their own investigations IN China. Yes a number of families here in the US are so distraught over the thought that their adoption was fraudulent, they’re now traveling to China to find the truth for themselves.

Jane Liedtke, founder of “Our Chinese Daughters Foundation” a non profit which offers programs and tours for families with Children from China, says China has actually done quite a bit to crack down on child trafficking over the years. Liedtke says they’ve shut down orphanages and thrown people responsible in prison.

She also adds that there is worry that too much negative attention around China and adoption could end up prompting China to clamp down on foreign adoptions. That says Liedtke could be harmful to the thousands of children and babies with birth defects or health issues, like Narissa, who are much more likely to be adopted by parents from the US and other countries around the world.