Orphans in China

An introduction to orphanages in China:
There are state-run orphanages, which are the only official orphanages in China. Only children who have papers from these state-run orphanages can be adopted, the Chinese government does not allow any other type of orphanage to facilitate adoption.
China Care fits into the pieces of this, because China Care runs a medical program which through the USA helps to provide needed surgeries for children in the Chinese state-run orphanages that otherwise would not be able to have life-saving surgeries. So, the orphanages send children to China Care. However, China Care is not a Chinese government recognized entity. Which means it technically does not have permission to reside in China. But, its basically accepted because the orphanages, and the govt., understand that the organization helps.
After most China Care children receive medical attention, they are sent back to the orphanage where they originally came from, and then can hopefully be given papers and the chance to be adopted.
And then, similar to China Care are other not-recognized orphanages, such as Catholic-run orphanages. While these orphanages help the children - they are not recognized, and therefore according to Chinese law, the children there can never be adopted - and then live in the orphanage until the age of 18.
Even within the state-run orphanage system, there are many children that will never make it to adoption. The only way a child can be adopted, internationally or nationally, is if the orphanage he/she is at provides a state-org (CCAA) with that child's papers. So if the CCAA (China Center of Adoption Affairs) asks an orphanage to provide it with the papers of 10 newborns, then perhaps 20 other infants are left out. As they become older, the same cycle may happen over and over again and the child will simply never make the papers-cut and thus, never make it into the adoption pool.
Its pretty sad to think about so many kids who just never even have the chance to get adopted, even if they have no physical or mental disabilities.
Also, in China it is illegal by law to abandon your child. But as everyone already knows, the one-child policy complicates that for many families. But another reason, of special interest to China Care, is that many Chinese families do not have the monetary means to care for a disabled child. So left with no other options, and no help from the government, many families abandon their disabled child in the hopes that it will receive care as an orphan, and a ward of the state. There is also a very real stigma in China against disabled people- mentally and physically disabled. Apparently, at this point in China, disabled young adults are even barred from applying to college. And many families will complain when they hear of a disabled child attending their own child's elementary/middle school and will sometimes not stop until the disabled child is removed from the school.
So China Care faces a lot of battles, first in staying active despite not being recognized by the government, taking care of these children who all need help, and also in providing education for these children who are essentially banned from main-stream, public education.

I'm sure that I'll find out a lot more as time goes on.