First: an announcement. Over in the China Adoption Forums, there's a writer for Redbook looking for adoptive moms of kids from China interested in being interviewed. And becoming a hero to an adoring crowd of Redbook readers, one would hope. You'll have to use your real name and allow photos of the family to appear in the magazine.

Second: another announcement. "Yes, Tiana, they do have boys in China."

I felt that needed to be said after reading about this fun-sounding reunion picnic held in St. Louis. Just for the record, since our boy is so LARGE AND IN CHARGE.

We're already fielding offers of matrimony from farsighted parents of some of the most beautiful girls ever adopted from China.

This makes me wonder about the future of this strange culture we've joined - the one that cares about the premiere Ni Hao, Kai Lan being delayed to October 22 (fooey, Nickelodeon!) and holds Chinese New Year's celebrations in English and whose members probably know more about Jane Jeong Trenka than Zhou Enlai (or at least we should, you know).

So, a culture that's this single-gendered (if it is a culture - I like to think it is, but am willing to entertain thoughts that it ain't and can't be) is likely to have some kind of problems with self-definition down the line, it seems to me.

When we talk about it at home - who our children are likely to meet, date and settle down with, quite often we entertain the idea that it'll be someone with some kind of similar background, if such future people exist. They may be adopted, they may not. They may look like our kids, they may not.

They may well be members of an ever-growing Chinese diaspora. (At my most cynical, I believe this is what the Chinese government is kind of hoping with the international adoption program - providing a supply of potential Chinese wives for the growing bachelor population, encouraging them to further ease population pressures by flat out moving elsewhere. Then I flog myself for the sin of imaginary dehumanization.)

But really Chinese emigration is on the rise more than ever. At the very least, this could mean bigger, newer Chinatowns all over the world. Does that interest you? Why?