A friend was recently relaying to me the information my husband shared with her about what we know regarding Jett’s birthday, and she summed it up by saying, “So you don’t really know if it is his birthday.” And the truth is we don’t. But if the information we received from the orphanage is correct than we can be 100 positive that Jett’s birthday is the 29th, the real question is: how truthful is the information we received from the orphanage. The one child policy had great intentions but unforeseen (at least by the government) consequences. Such as a population with a sex ratio imbalance (not enough wives) and orphanages filled with little girls and special needs children. Since in China it is illegal to abandon your children another consequence of the One Child Policy is unreliable finding stories.
I know 3 people who live in China, one of those 3 has a personal friend who was involved in a fabricated story. A little girl was born at the hospital, the family did not want her, the nurses found her a home (a single woman I believe), but the official story told to the police is that the little girl was found abandoned on the streets. So, I will tell you Jett’s story as it was told to us. There is nothing in the story itself or the person that told it to us that would make us doubt it, and my gut tells me it’s true, but we will never truly know.
Jett was found on the outskirts of a pretty Xuzhou city park, under a tree, wearing a white shirt, wrapped in a blanket, on August 29th, 2008 with his umbilical cord still attached. There is nothing in the finding ad the newspaper publishes regarding found children (Jett’s finding ad page has a dozen other babies along with him, so sad) that lists the shirt or the blanket, so I can’t be certain that the orphanage director was accurate in those details, but I would like to think that the family who placed him under the shade of a tree might also have wrapped him up to protect him from the elements.
And 3 years later a blonde Chinese Texas boy is putting together an Elmo puzzle he received from his big birthday party.
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