In 1992, Chen Chong married his second husband Peter. In 1998, Chen Chong applied for international adoption to the China Adoption Center, requesting to adopt a child under 2 years old as an adopted child. Then Chen Chong's mother and husband Peter went to the Nanning Social Welfare Institute to adopt a pair of twin baby girls.
On July 13, 1998, Chen Chong’s mother and husband Peter came to Guangxi to handle the adoption procedures. At that time, Chen Chong’s mother explained to the staff that Chen Chong did not return to China to pick up the children because of her busy work schedule, and entrusted them to handle the adoption procedures. She repeatedly stated that Chen Chong had seen the photos before and was very satisfied with the two girls and was already in the United States. The family has prepared food, clothing, bedrooms and nannies for the sisters, and plans to let them receive the best education in the United States. Now she is waiting in the United States for the sisters to return home and reunite.
After the adoption procedures were completed, in order to express their gratitude, the leaders of the Civil Affairs Department gave two strings of pearl necklaces to Chen Chong’s family. Chen Chong’s mother immediately hung the necklaces on the necks of the two sisters and kissed them. The sisters said happily: "We got two pearls from Guangxi."
On the same day, the Guangxi notary office and the Nanning Municipal Public Security Bureau notarized the adoptions respectively, and applied for adoption of the two girls. Passports of parents to the United States. The next day, Chen Chong's family left Nanning with the two girls.
But unexpectedly, during the process of going through the procedures, Chen Chong, who had experienced a miscarriage and had been diagnosed by a doctor as having difficulty conceiving, actually became pregnant.
In October 1998, Chen Chong’s daughter was born, but she still insisted in an interview: ‘If I say that we treat our three daughters equally, others will not believe it. But I have the same love for my three daughters. The two brought in are slightly older than Xiao Beibei (biological daughter). They are very sensible and smart, and they like their little sister very much. "From this, she also decided to insist on breastfeeding. But later she discovered that she really didn't have much energy to take care of the two children. So, Chen Chong believed that "there was no bond between mother and daughter" and "transferred" the twin girls to a pair of New York parents. The couple's financial situation is very good, and their two children are living well.
As soon as the news came out, Chen Chong was immediately criticized by netizens for not having a "humane heart", and they named him "abandoned." Chen". Some netizens said that the reason for "no mother-daughter bond" is too far-fetched. Some netizens morally condemned Chen Chong, believing that no matter out of morality or benevolence, or even a little bit of sympathy or conscience, He even believed that as a public figure, Chen Chong should be responsible and consider the consequences of abandonment. Children are not commodities or pets. Once they are taken home, they will become their own. An inseparable part of life, if Chen Chong was not ready to raise them for a lifetime, he should not have adopted these two children home in the first place.