U.S. doctor to adopt Chiayi girl

A doctor William Adams, 45, who works in a hospital emergency room in Pennsylvania, read online about the special needs of Fan Ya-hui, 11, an elementary school student in southern Taiwan. After this, he decided to fly all the way from the U.S. to the island to take this girl to a new home in America.

At a ceremony at a Catholic church yesterday Fan received a warm welcome from the Adams family. Together with Adams’ own four children and four other adopted Asian kids, Fan will become their ninth child. Betty Adams thanked the church for its help with the adoption and described Fan as a “beautiful child.”

Adams adopted three Chinese children and a Korean boy after reading online about the needy circumstances of these children. Adams said there were no problems of cultural differences, with several children from different ethnic backgrounds. He took his own kids to China when he and his wife went abroad to adopt three Chinese children. He said this way his own kids experienced different cultures, which instilled harmony in his family.

Fan’s mother, who inherited a severe mental illness from Fan’s grandmother was raped in 1996 and delivered Fan afterwards. Fan’s grandfather could not afford to raise her and left her in an orphanage.

In 1998 Fan was sent back to the orphanage after having been adopted for a year by a family because Fan’s new adoptive family found out that Fan’s mother’s family had a history of mental illness.

The wife of Chiayi county magistrate Liao Su-hui appreciated Adams’acceptance of Fan into his family, complimented him for a great love that transcended borders between countries, and wished Fan good luck in the U.S.

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