China's One Child Policy.?

Question

Just watched programme about children going missing in China. Is this linked to the 1 child policy?
70,000 kids are stolen each year by traffickers selling them on.
Since the 1 child policy was introduced, 40 million baby girls have been aborted because boys are more valuable to the family.
The chinese govt. doesn't want outsiders knowing this and covered it up when applying for the 2008 Olympics.
Is there really a relationship between these figures and the policy?
Opinions please.

Answer 1

As in all so called communist states, the laws passed by the rulers do not apply to the rulers themselves. The party members in China have as many children as they want.

Apart from the 40 million aborted, many many more born in country/rural areas are abandoned after birth. The sex of the child not being known until after birth.

These abandoned girls are generally placed in an orphanage, although many are murdered by their fathers and the bodies hidden or disposed of. Not all the children sold in China are stolen. Many are sold by their parents to the traffickers. 70,000 is a gross under-estimate of the total problem.

Even if the one child per family policy did not exist, then hundreds of thousands of children would still be trafficked every year. In India there is no restriction on the number of children allowed per family, as in all African countries. However, parents in these countries are selling children daily. In many cases this is the only solution to their poverty. However, It can never be justified for this reason.

These parents are aware that when they sell their children, those children for the most part will be sold on by the traffickers to people who operate the sex trade. You may have recently seen another documentary about a woman in India who went to buy her daughter back from a brothel that she knowingly sold her to in the first place.

Maybe one day our planet will provide enough food and wealth for everyone, so that these practises can stop. Wanting it to stop just because it is so wrong is very naive. We simply do not know what it is like to have three or four children in the house, with no food whatsover. We never have to make decisions about selling one child so that we can keep and feed three others. It makes me cry time and time again. Working with people like this just breaks my heart time and time again. But that is how it is.

Goodnight

Answer 2

There is good & bad on the One Child Policy. The top reason was to control birth and prevent population explosion as China has 1+bn. Went to China many times and found that most families have more than one kid. The need to pay fine and the extra kids also being barred from govt school and other facilities. They, the people have ways to bypass the rules........with help & money. The countries, like China& S'pore where birth control is a success are having another problem at this moment, Not enough babies........finding all ways to get a boom.

Answer 3

No,

Once a baby has been born it is registered and the parents have used up their one child slot. Even if that child is killed or sold they can't have another one. The policy is very draconian. As you know if the mother goes ahead and has the child the child will be aborted, if not aborted, then killed at birth and if anyone tries to stop the murder then they will be killed and their families will be billed for the use of the bullet. I read of a case where a Baptist priest tried to stop the execution of a second child and he was killed in the process and the baby was murdered as well. Since he was a westerner it made a huge scandal.

I don't know about the 70,000 kids being stolen each year, but I am sure most of them end up in sweat shops. The unlucky ones are killed or enter the sex trade.

China is setting itself up for a huge problem soon men will out number the women at large ratios like ten to one. This is because a son is expected to care for his parents. A daughter is expected to care for her husband's parents not her own. This is the traditional Chinese retirement plan and, as far as I know, their only retirement plan. So boys are much more valuable to a Chinese family, unless they are wealthy and sure that they will be able to comfortable retire.

China has too many people and people are cheap and easy to make so it doesn't surprise me that they let them be stolen and sold. Human life has always been cheap in that part of the world.

Answer 4

From the information I've read over the years, it seems- yes. China is still a country where males are seen as superior, and if you are only allowed one child, then why would they want to have a daughter? But of course I'm sure not all Chinese feel this way.

And even with this law- China's population is growing exponentially. I wish it could be a voluntary thing that everyone agreed with and participated in- and yet its obvious that China has many economic/social/ and environmental problems that an increasing population will only make harder to fix.

I don't think the Olympics should be held there as China is still blatantly violating many basic human rights, and the fact that China is hand in hand with Kim Jung Il

Answer 5

I doubt the figure of 40M girls being aborted if only because nobody has any idea as statistics of that kind arent kept. And even tho that programme was on the BBC I shouldn't place too much reliance on the figure of 70K. Having said that to sell ONE child is nothing to be proud of! For me the programme was intersting in that it suggested that the police service is doing very little to combat the trend and that it is up to PRIVATE individuals (albeit former policemen) to do what they can to track these unfortunae children down. Just as a statistical fact - though firm numbers are NOT known - it is recognised that the female population of China outnumbers the maleand there REMAINS a continuing shortage of resources both natural and man-made to support the existing population. As for the Olympic Games I remain at a loss to understand the logic of how the hosts of these events are chosen!

Answer 6

The programme was Shocking!

China's leaders opted for a very inhumane way to try and reduce the population. Their leaders have once again failed to understand the human suffering imposed on innocents.

The trafficking of children is horrendous! Imagine being one of those poor kids! How heartless. The trafficker with the horrible teeth didn't know what was wrong with trafficking! He failed to understand he was promoting unrestrained misery.

The legalised murder of daughters! So many! For what? Did the poor women enjoy anything afterwards?

How sad. How dreadfully sad. China has lost respectability.
What an awful world we live in.

Answer 7

Set that numbers into a frame - 40,000 kids die daily on hunger around the world. The USA has 60,000 per year missing. China has a population of 1,480,000,000 people, that's more then Europe, South America, North America and Australia together. 70,000 kids, as tragic as it is, is nothing, compared to the tragedies we have every second, every day on this planet and nobody does a thing.

Answer 8

unfortunately China's one child policy has had tremendous detrimental affects on the family and moral structure of it's citizens.

Male babies are much more wanted in Asia... this is true for China as it is for India... and because of the one child policy which China has.. has forced many couples to abandon baby girls on the side of the streets... these children if found alive are put into orphanages and many are neglected and left to die of malnutrition... it is an immoral and despicable act which has been forced by the government onto it's populace...

Answer 9

This is one of many things China seems to want to cover up....they also didn't want the head of Mattel in to any of their toy factories (Capitol Hill testimony) for starters!

Answer 10

I think the way the issue of overpopulation has been addressed is tragic, but i don't think it has anything to do with the number of abductions. i just can't see what relationship there could be. pregnancy tests are compulsory, so there's no way it could be a government cover-up to get rid of children or anything (morbid mich? sorry lol).