Editor’s Note: Mrs. Barbara Singleton, a high school principal at Halton District School Board in Milton, Ontario, Canada, and her husband, Dr. Paul Singleton, adopted two Chinese daughters, now 9 and 10 years old, from Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province in 1993 and 1994. From September 17 to December 10, 2001, the daughters, Mrs. Singleton’s 11-year-old son Jamie, and her 19-year-old niece Kristen returned to China to live for two and a half months. The purpose of their trip was