China: One Child One Family Policy

From: http://hvg.heinemann.co.uk/login.aspx. News reports on the social effects of China's one child one family policy: scavengers working the rubbish dumps occasionally find the bodies of baby girls, some still alive; a woman scavenger has found five baby girls, she has brought them all home to her one room shack and raised them as her own; in China, couples are only allowed to have one child, having a girl is a disappointment, it is reported that a million female foetuses are aborted and over ten thousand female babies are abandoned every year; the women tells of a baby who died before they got her home, another scavenger had taken the babies clothes and left her there to die; it is thought that one seventh of baby girls go missing, an expert explains that some of these girls are still alive just not registered, or have been abandoned, but many are aborted when the parents discover they are carrying a female baby; there are now twenty million more boys than girls in China, this difference is rising a million and a half every year, this could destabilise China in the future; a pregnant woman is under pressure to produce a boy, family and community demand it, pregnant women pray at a temple for their child to be born a boy; in Chinese tradition girls are despised and the one-child policy heightens the pressure to abandon newly born baby girls.

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[brownsongs]

It's actually much worse than this. The desire for boys is so strong that thousands of young boys are kidnapped off the streets, at the market or from their homes and sold to families who couldn't produce a boy. And teenage girls are abducted and sold as wives, often to old men. The gov't looks the other way and does nothing.

[iamweird1994]

ok they are talking about the male children will not have anyone to marry right. well why is that because they are killing all of the girls. i mean jesus crist they are saying oh well they should have a boy to carry on the family name wat are they going to do when the only gender left is male all of the familys in china will die out smarten up dumbasses

[COMPASSION2611]

Oh No, this is just sad & wrong. Without the female how can married couples be fruitful and multiply? Poor innocent babies and the strain on the females that have them. Some females are stronger and work harder than males. SAD. But thank God for people like this lady.

[mykittysapphire12345]

OH NO,!!!!!!! I live in hong kong and THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS ON MY CITIES MAINLAND??????

[WELOVECOUNTRYMUSIC]

@iamweird1994 i see were your coming from they arent going to die the men will come to europe and america and take are women

[cearle28]

 Shame on China!

[cearle28]

Terrible!! Shame on China!

[cearle28]

Terrible!! Shame on China!

[Krakilin0405]

Remove 1-child policy, issue resolved.

[MetalIsEvolution]

China needs to get tougher policies against sex selective abortion, it won't solve all of China's problems, but it will help with the gender imbalence. If a couple wants to abort in the fist 12 weeks; fine. It also needs to be one you have one child, that is the one you get, boy or girl.

[carol38447]

THE SCAVANGER WOMAN AND HER HUSBAND ARE TURE ANGELS FOR TAKING IN ALL THOSE BEAUTIFUL LITTLE GIRLS THEY ARE SO CUTE THEY SHOULD BE GIVEN SUPPORT AND MONEY TO HELP THEM THE CHILDERN LOOK SO HAPPY GOD BLESS THEM CHINA YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOUR COUNTRY AND WHAt you have done i wish this women good luck and heatlh