“Some of the girls are kidnapped by the highbinders, and their families have no idea that their daughters are alive,” Miss Culbertson continued. “The girls take on new identities in America, and their lives are controlled in every way. They’ve been reduced to what we call paper daughters. Without a home. Without care or love.”
A few of the girls and young women who took refuge at the mission home were able to save money to return to China and seek out their families. Not all searches were successful though. Such was the case with Tien Fu Wu when she returned to her native land to seek out family members. One success story was Jean Ying. The mission home wrote to her family in Canton, and Jean Ying's parents sent over money for passage for their daughter they thought had been abducted or killed. The reunion was sweet indeed. (See Chinatown Quest: One Hundred Years of Donaldina Cameron House, by Carol Green Wilson, p. 18-19)
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