How on Earth did you get a BOY from China?

We get this comment/question quite often..."How on Earth did you get a BOY from China?"My reply is now normally, "Oh, we ASKED for HIM." (Which by the way is the truth...once I saw his photo on the list of waiting children, I knew instantly I was to be his mother...and we submitted our LOI ({Letter of Intent} to adopt him. We did ask for him...)

Often people will then clarify their initial commment/question and rephrase it something like this, "I thought only girls were available to adopt from China." To which I now normally reply, "No there are boys also. MANY of them. Thousands of them. In a country where it is ILLEGAL to have more than one child, the gender of the second child really does not matter. Sure a birth family might try to keep a male second child for longer than if that child were a girl...but again, the law is the law, and the penalties for breaking it are stiff. Thousands of boys are available for adoption from China. On China's current Shared List of Waiting Children, there are over 2000 children available, and more than half are boys...By the way, why do you ask, are you interested in adopting a child who needs a family?"
My favorite version of this comment/question(sarcasm here) is, "They have boys in China?" My reply: "Yes, they have both boys AND girls in China, just like in every other country on our planet." (I realize they likely mean, they have boys also available for adoption in China, not just girls? but geez, think before you ask a stranger a question about their family/child in front of their child!)

Another fun one is, "Is his father Chinese?" - to which I get to point to Donovan AND Aaron and say, "Yes, THEIR father is Chinese."

Now I don't mind when someone is asking questions about our family because they have adopted or are considering adopting...but otherwise, it never fails to amaze me how people seem to think it is their business...