A Stolen Twin Reunites with Her Birth Family 

Her dad looks so overwhelmed. He probably wants to hug her and has missed her all those years but he's a stranger to her. I hope the girls stay in touch and Esther can rebuild a relationship with her biological father.

What they did is outrageous, the birth family was done an injustice. The hurt and pain. I'm glad they found their daughter.

The couple had twins! Were they supposed to abort one of the babies in the womb? Horrible injustice.

How do you steal someone’s child just to give them away?

This is so sad. I’m glad the daughter had good family and a nice upbringing. But I feel so bad for her biological family. They were truly robbed of having her. You could see in the mother’s face she was really upset but glad at the same time that she was praying while her daughter was gone she would be in a safe and loving environment. The father really wanted to hug her but it looked hard because they don’t really know each other. I hope they can all stay in touch and see each other as many times

But it’s sad that the adopted girl doesn’t know any mandarin.

Oh my God, it's so heart breaking. Twins separated again. She wants her sister to stay. She should try to bring her sister to the States to visit a while. So sad! 😕☹️😢

I remembered when many Americans adopted cute cherub looking Chinese babies thinking they were saving them when in fact, they were enabling the Chinese government to profit from splitting family apart. I'm grateful that people are reuniting families, mending broken hearts, offering closure, and educating people like myself about the atrocity of the One Child Policy.

I understand about China's one child policy, and its purpose. But, this was a case of twins, a natural pregnancy (not IVF etc.), &, it was a terrible injustice to split up the birth family. As the stealing of the child by the state occured in the last 20 years or so, China should apologise to the birth family; &, China should pay the birth family, compensation for resulting emotional suffering, and lost relationships. May the birth parents and birth sister get the opportunity to really know their child/ daughter; &, vice versa.

I'm a twin (female female twin) and couldn't imagine being torn apart from my sister no matter how much we fight and argue. I've been lucky to grow and play, and yes, argue and fight with mine and I hope twins (and siblings) who were torn apart find each other and stay in each other's lives. I hope these two do as well.

That's so awful. An innocent family thinks they're getting a fairly adopted baby, no doubt signing papers and turning over a ton of money to the PRC. This forever alters the lives of both families. I hope both families heal from the trauma.

A beautiful ending to a sad chapter. So wonderful to see both families together and the twins reunited. Thank you Barbara.

What a heartbreaking story for all of them - such a complicate bundle of emotions, too. The daughter was safe and well brought up, thank goodness, but the parents and sibling missed her and didn’t know for all those years. And now so much distance and time has passed, and the distance, language, and cultural differences will make it hard for them to stay in touch. I feel for all of them.

Such a sad story!!! I hope she can be close to her birth family from this point forward. Especially her twin sister!

The LA article says the journalist found the American twin a while ago but the family refused to cooperate as the husband had died a year before. They delayed this reunion by 8 years.

I'm just so grateful to God she was adopted and wasn't.. trafficked into.. I can't even say it.. 😢😢 I'm just happy she's taken good care of.

As an adoptive mother this would be heart wrenching. My heart would be so broken for my child knowing it was a small fine that could have kept her with her birth family 😭😭. So glad they got rid of these laws in China, it seems so barbaric to steal a child away.

i am a twin and i just can't imagine bring separated with my twin. it's emotionally so traumatizing. it must be really tough for the family too because twins are not that common on many families. our family treats us precious becuz we are the first ever twins in our family.

I can't believe they told the adopted parents that she was an abandoned baby! How many millions of others were ripped away from their families and lied about to adoptive families around the world? 💔 just so heartbreaking

Was supposed to be a happy moment but for me it wasn't. It was tragic and the narrator was very monotone so there didn't seem to be happiness in the reunion. Also being so far away from each other, when will they see each other again? Tragic!

It hurt me when the adoptive family said let past be the past since it had a happy ending. Easy for them to say. The girl was snatched and given away without the birthj family's consent! I'm just watching this yet I feel pain!

this is so sad. the twin was robbed of her sister. i just can't imagine the hurt and the regret of having lost such relationship

I'm here after the Amazon documentary. I'd love to hear more!

The definition of heartbreaking 💔 So glad that they were reunited

I think it’s important that if you’re adopting a child from another country, to find a a way to teach them their native language and culture. Most adoptees grow up wanting to know about where they came from.

Happened in Korea too, unfortunately. “Adopted” aka kidnapped

HIDEOUS and EVIL what this family was put through, especially the trauma caused to the girls at age 2!! It's heartbreaking. It's apparent the love and sadness that her birth parents still feel. I hope this bitter sweet reunion will bring some much needed healing and that they will be able to salvage some sort of relationship moving forward.

I'm glad they found each other and her family knows she is safe and loved plus she is no longer lost to them

They raise a stranger like their very own kids,it's amazing and wonderful.

I watched One Child Nation a few weeks ago and I am so glad to see this video of the reunion of the twins!

This is an incredible story and I'm so glad they were reunited

I wish you and your sister all the best from Nova Scotia, Canada! Good luck!

How horrible for everyone involved! What an injustice 😔

So sad. They counted twins as violating law. Horrible!

I just finished watching the documentary One Child Nation. I was so touched by this girl's story. Now I'm crying so much watching this video. so happy to see that they finally get reunited

I just saw this documentary on Netflix about this family. It’s called one child nation. I am glad they were able to reunite. 💕💕💕

Oh this is heartbreaking!! I am crying for Esther’s family.

I begin to tear up watching them all eat together at the table. They were so loving and telling their story of what happened just broke my heart. GOD is sooooo good I wish them well while building awesome memories.

This is heartbreaking... The family is still hurting from their loss.

So bittersweet. My heart can't take it.🥺🥺🥺😭

That's upsetting.

This breaks my heart ❤️

That last hug broke my heart 😢😢💔💔💔

I should be ashamed and ask for forgiveness to the family....for adopting their stolen child...

I wonder what happened next? Did the sisters build a relationship? Did the one sister who lived in the United States visit and stay in contact with her family?

It's so cruel. And now the same people who did this to them are asking people to have more children. They should start by officially apologizing to the families they ruined.

Stealing their child then asking money for getting the child back?? Inhumanity

STOLEN? WHO IS IN JAIL? 🤔🤨😤😤

So BEAUTIFUL yet so SAD!!

Such a sad story and to think how many children were taken and families had to suffer all these years. You can control having multiples either so its totally ridiculous to take one of the twins away. It’s not the same as having a baby and knowing the law and then continuing to have anything child which makes this even more upsetting.

What a weird situation.. its like she knows she was stolen but at the same time was likely raised by a loving family that didn't know this... I can't imagine knowing you were taken from your real parents by force but now spent all of your life with another family..

Such a wonderfully touching story and had me in tears almost immediately. Is incredible that we as a human race are so technologically advanced yet so primeval. I hope the twins have many opportunities to make up for lost time

This is unimaginable.. this poor family...

When the gov said normal cows have 3 legs is right, they force the citizen to say the same thing. No matter how hard people outside the country say cows have 4 legs or even their eyes see cows have 4 legs. Separating family is easy for them. Look the uyghurs now

Came here from Amazon documentary. I’m so happy that they finally met. I’m in tears 😭

Heartbreaking 💔

That's crazy with the one-child policy. I was born in the 1990s in China and I have one older sister. So I don't know how does the government actually know if you have more than 1 child.

So beautiful time heals all

Heart breaking.

They look so different now~ It shows how environmental change affects a person.

Oh😢 bless there hearts 💕

So glad that they can meet

So sad, the way the village took the child away.

Don't stop doing stuff like this... bravo!

what a truly effed up world we live in. i've been watching these types of videos for the last 2 days and the fact that the gov'ts and/or people who make decisions, have the power over others to make such laws is inhumane. watching the pain that gets released and to be so overwhelmed with immense joy.....

Omg I'm bawling my eyes out.

😭this is so sad. I'm glad they meet her again

This should have been made into a movie

OMG it's so sad!!

Heartbreaking

So sad!

They used to do stuff like this in Ireland too. The church would take children from their mothers and then sell them abroad (often to the USA) for adoption. And yet people still don't understand why we're part of the Hague agreement. 🙄 😐 (People here get annoyed because the countries they can adopt from are limited to ones where they can investigate and ascertain that the children aren't being sold/stolen and the parents aren't being coerced, etc. Some people are so entitled and ignorant it's unreal. You do not have the right to have a child, it's children's rights we should be more concerned over.)

heartbreaking

So sad.

How absolutely horrific for the family. Thank goodness for the adoptive family giving her a good life. But how awful the twins and the family. I hope they can rebuild the relationships.

This is so dumb and so sad 😞 Like how tf you gonna take a child away for “violating a policy” over an unavoidable circumstance like birthing twins?? Like damnnn the parents didn’t CHOOSE to have two babies at the same time...it’s a natural occurrence 🤦🏽‍♀️

This is amazing

I just found this after watching the documentary One Child Nation. It was shocking to find out what truely went on during those 35 years

💔

Is this a practice? Why do we not hear more about it? And I would love some more information about the Amazon Documentary that others mentioned.

and now they are enacting a 3 child policy...

Sad..

Incredible story

Atleast they did not kill the other one they still have heart to let the other be adopted

That's so sad. So incredibly sad.

This is so sad..😭😭😭😭

That's wrong if the stolen twin was not given back after knowing this

Can you provide the link to the Amazon documentary? I see it mentioned in the comments

Omg I just saw the documentary about the once child law on prime and this girl was on it and then this popped up on my RU-vid ... I don’t know if I should be mad or confused or something that RU-vid knew I saw this but I’m just gonna watch this lol

Were they really "Chinese officials" or human traffickers taking advantage of the one-child policy?

1:16 the chinese dad is so touching

Sad and cruel

The stolen twin looked like she didnt really want to be there. So emotionless unlike her sister and family. Her sister is hella pretty tho

Having watched other stories on the one child families. I see now that it was an easy way for loc government officials or even local governments employees to make extra cash. They found a family that had more than one child, took it and then ransom the child back. If the family could pay the child was given back for a shot time and then taken again until they were bled dry and then the child was put into the adoption machine. That way they could look like they were doing there job make a little extra and then putting them in to the adoption system the higher up got their money from the fees. You see those adoption fees never trickled down to the local people that’s why they basically extorted money. The local government had no intention of letting the family keep the child but that didn’t mean they could get a little something out of it either.

That is so wrong. On so many levels.

That girl is broken hearted

this got me crying

Thank goodness she went to a loving home. Silver linings.

They look like my cousin. OMG 😂😂 Congratulations!

O.K .All right.Agree that.