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China Baby Traffickers Sentenced
Bejing
Multiple reports over the last few years about how China’s birth control policy of only one child per most families has led to the aborting, murdering and selling of baby girls. One site shows a photo of a baby girl left in a cardboard box by the side of the road. Such trade is illicit but thriving according to Chinese news reports; baby girls abducted or bought from poor Chinese farm families, sold to others who want a daughter, servant or future bride for their son. Despite law enforcement efforts, thousands of baby girls are sold annually. “Chinese society has never valued girls as highly as boys who carry on the family name and take care of elderly parents….until the 1940’s, girls were considered so unimportant that many weren’t given names until adulthood.” (Well, now they are beginning to realize what a lopsided population they are creating and that many Chinese men will not have wives!) Some such parents say buying a newborn girl is cheaper (cost is less than $100) than buying a teenage bride.
(Bejing) Couple Seeks Daughter to Take Care of Them
Reuters News Service
A retired Chinese couple has advertised for a “daughter” to take care of them in place of their son who has emigrated to Canada. (This story is about a former university professor and construction expert who feel “lonely and lost” and very much alone. Reports have it that many young women have responded and the competition is fierce.)
Hong Kong Limits Pregnant Chinese Women
By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press Writer
HONG KONG -- Pregnant women from mainland China who are near their due date will be turned away at Hong Kong borders if they cannot prove they have appointments in the city's hospitals, officials said Tuesday. The number of births by mainland Chinese women in Hong Kong nearly doubled in 2005 -- from 10,128 in 2003 to 19,538 -- according to the city's Hospital Authority. Many come to evade China's one-child policy, take advantage of higher quality health care or earn Hong Kong residency rights for their babies.
Bejing
Multiple reports over the last few years about how China’s birth control policy of only one child per most families has led to the aborting, murdering and selling of baby girls. One site shows a photo of a baby girl left in a cardboard box by the side of the road. Such trade is illicit but thriving according to Chinese news reports; baby girls abducted or bought from poor Chinese farm families, sold to others who want a daughter, servant or future bride for their son. Despite law enforcement efforts, thousands of baby girls are sold annually. “Chinese society has never valued girls as highly as boys who carry on the family name and take care of elderly parents….until the 1940’s, girls were considered so unimportant that many weren’t given names until adulthood.” (Well, now they are beginning to realize what a lopsided population they are creating and that many Chinese men will not have wives!) Some such parents say buying a newborn girl is cheaper (cost is less than $100) than buying a teenage bride.
(Bejing) Couple Seeks Daughter to Take Care of Them
Reuters News Service
A retired Chinese couple has advertised for a “daughter” to take care of them in place of their son who has emigrated to Canada. (This story is about a former university professor and construction expert who feel “lonely and lost” and very much alone. Reports have it that many young women have responded and the competition is fierce.)
Hong Kong Limits Pregnant Chinese Women
By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press Writer
HONG KONG -- Pregnant women from mainland China who are near their due date will be turned away at Hong Kong borders if they cannot prove they have appointments in the city's hospitals, officials said Tuesday. The number of births by mainland Chinese women in Hong Kong nearly doubled in 2005 -- from 10,128 in 2003 to 19,538 -- according to the city's Hospital Authority. Many come to evade China's one-child policy, take advantage of higher quality health care or earn Hong Kong residency rights for their babies.
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