Adoption Dialogue Series 8: When Daughters of the Bamboo Grove Meets Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother

MBL’s eighth Adoption Dialogue brings together award-winning author Barbara Demick and MBL founder Xinran to explore the complex, often overlooked realities behind adoption from China. Drawing on their writing, reporting, and personal encounters with families on all sides of adoption, the event continues the 2025 theme of adoption healing through honest storytelling and dialogue. Join us online on 28 December 2025 for an evening of reflection, conversation, and connection.

My Son Wants to Transition. My World Collapsed.

In this deeply personal and moving essay, MBL volunteer Vicky reflects on a mother’s journey of shock, grief and eventual acceptance when her adult child transitions gender. Through real encounters and quiet moments of reckoning, the article explores family bonds, cultural tensions, and the realisation that at the end of the day, love matters more than anything else.

Educational Toys Spark Young Minds, Warmth Reaches the Taihang Mountains — SUCB / MBL’s 30th B4K Project Donation

SUCB and Mothers’ Bridge of Love (MBL) have marked the opening of the 30th Books for Kids (B4K) library at Jincheng Special Education School in Shanxi, delivering educational toys and hands-on learning activities for children with special educational needs. Through play, care and collaboration, the B4K project continues to bring warmth, confidence and learning opportunities to under-resourced communities.

Birthday Surprises — Not All Surprises Are Roses; Sometimes They’re Two Kitchen Knives

A warm and humorous reflection on cross-cultural marriage, Vicky’s essay recounts two decades of “birthday surprises” — from plastic flowers to kitchen knives — revealing how love grows not through grand gestures, but through understanding, acceptance and the everyday tenderness shared between partners from different worlds.

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