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China's One Child Policy: Researchers may have ‘found’ many of China’s 30 million missing girls
Washington Post ^ | 12/01/2016 | Simon Denyer

Posted on 12/01/2016 12:53:58 PM PST by SeekAndFind

Academics often talk about between 30 and 60 million “missing girls” in China, apparently killed in the womb or just after birth, thanks to a combination of preference for sons and the country’s decades under a repressive one-child policy.

Now researchers in the United States and China think they might have found many — or even most — of them, and argue they might not have been killed after all.

John Kennedy of the University of Kansas and Shi Yaojiang of Shaanxi Normal University have released a study claiming that the births of many of the girls may, in fact, simply not have been registered.

“People think 30 million girls are missing from the population. That's the population of California, and they think they're just gone,” said Kennedy, an associate professor of political science, according to the university website.

“Most people are using a demographic explanation to say that abortion or infanticide are the reasons they don't show up in the census and that they don't exist. But we find there is a political explanation.”

Local officials, they argue, were complicit in the concealment to retain support from villagers, and maintain social stability.

“There is no coordination between cadres saying 'we're all in agreement,'” Kennedy said. “Actually it's just very local. The people who are implementing these policies work for the government in a sense. They are officials, but they are also villagers, and they have to live in the village where they are implementing policies.”

China finally abandoned the one-child policy this year after more than three decades, allowing everyone to have two children. But there is still widespread concern about the lagged effects of a seriously skewed gender ratio on society, with young males said to vastly outnumber women.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; demographics
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To: HiTech RedNeck

You have a good custom. One worthy of any real Christian.
A wish of love and peacefullness is a prayer for the good of all God’s Children. One Thousand (or more) points of light!


21 posted on 12/01/2016 1:50:34 PM PST by lee martell
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To: forgotten man

I think you mean the other way around: if there are more men and fewer women, the men would pay a large bride-price. A dowry paid to the man’s family would be logical when men are scarcer.

However, it’s more complicated than that. In some societies, the dowry is less of a bribe to the man than a kind of trust settlement on the bride, so that she has some independent resources. In theory, at least ...


22 posted on 12/01/2016 1:54:57 PM PST by Tax-chick (Nations commit self-extinction one free, personal choice at a time.)
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To: lee martell

The Lord is the “engine” that made America great. I have pointed this out to the manager of an Indian H1B contracting outlet that has made contracting sales to America. Nominally Hindu, he’s actually seeming to get the point.


23 posted on 12/01/2016 1:56:06 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Boogieman

It’s to straighten her feet. She was probably severely pigeon toed.


24 posted on 12/01/2016 2:06:10 PM PST by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: logi_cal869

“China has an extremely racist culture...most don’t know it.”

Orientals are the most racist on this planet.


25 posted on 12/01/2016 2:07:49 PM PST by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: caver; Boogieman

yep orthopedic shoes as well. Worn them both when I was a child. Hard to flip from your front to your back when sleeping without banging the crib rails and waking up your parents.


26 posted on 12/01/2016 2:09:46 PM PST by superfries
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To: superfries

I’ve seen a number of babies wearing those feet braces.


27 posted on 12/01/2016 2:13:42 PM PST by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: caver

Ah okay, that makes sense. The only think I could think of was they might be some kind of baby manacles to keep the kid from running away :)


28 posted on 12/01/2016 2:17:52 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: SeekAndFind

The skewed birth ratio in response to limited family size is seen in South Korea and Vietnam, too, and increasingly in Muslim nations like Azerbijan and Albania.


29 posted on 12/01/2016 2:39:53 PM PST by tbw2
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To: caver

it is a way to fix the turned in feet but honestly by fixing the turned in feet the hips end up causing you issues later in life. I actually think they would be better off breaking the bone or re-aligning the hips and feet from the hip joint down than fixing it the way they do but what do I know? I just know I had the connective bar and orthopedic shoes and my feet are straight now but my hips are bothering me now that I am in my 50’s and I have not led a hardscrabble life.


30 posted on 12/01/2016 2:40:54 PM PST by superfries
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To: Tax-chick

Dowries are often his gift to her family as a down payment, proof he can support a wife and children - and ends up going to her to become part of the household and less than the gifts the family gives the married couple to set up household.


31 posted on 12/01/2016 2:43:25 PM PST by tbw2
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To: Boogieman

To treat clubbed feet.


32 posted on 12/01/2016 2:44:27 PM PST by tbw2
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To: superfries

Well, that may be, but some of us just don’t age well. I’m almost 60 and am surprised at the condition of those much younger than me. I stay active though.


33 posted on 12/01/2016 2:44:27 PM PST by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: elcid1970
Chinese People’s Expendable Bachelor Army
. . . consisting, nominally at least, of only sons exclusively. To their parents, at least, not so “expendable - one might suppose.

34 posted on 12/01/2016 2:46:41 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion ('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: caver

Good for you on staying in shape. I need to work on that a lot more in the new year. My old man is 78 and has had 2 hip replacements. Looking into having to replace another hip as he wore out one of the replacements. Plays handball and golfs and plays tennis every week. Tough old dude:) I’m pretty sure he can still take me.


35 posted on 12/01/2016 2:48:06 PM PST by superfries
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To: superfries

Ha! Good for your old man! Sounds like he would be hard to keep up with.


36 posted on 12/01/2016 2:49:58 PM PST by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: SeekAndFind
Found 'em.


37 posted on 12/01/2016 2:54:12 PM PST by JediJones (We must deport all liberals until we can figure out what the hell is going on.)
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To: Boogieman
Ok, now I am wondering what that contraption on the one baby’s shoes is. It looks like a rolling pin with some cords attached...

One of our daughters wore that as a baby. It's to ensure their legs grow straight. We were expecting a normal vaginal birthing with a midwife present, as was the case with our other children. But our baby turned in the womb and the doctors couldn't make her turn, having to come out in a c-section delivery. Her legs had been twisted in the womb, and that appliance was prescribed to straighten her feet. Every day we'd put it on her while she slept in her crib, until she was able to walk. Straightened her feet out just fine before she turned one year old.

38 posted on 12/01/2016 3:09:58 PM PST by roadcat
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