Orphaned Chinese children at a foster care center in Beijing
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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I of them lives at my house
That’s good, for the most part. Some of these parents could not bring themselves to simply ‘dispose’ of these innocent female children. Love Wins!
Now, get the word out. There are many lonely young men in China who think they have no prospects on having their own families.
Terrible moral situation for the Chinese people. Kids put into foster care by otherwise loving families who are unable to do so because the state is evil.
I would think that in a country with more men than women a daughter would bring a large dowry into a marriage.
Another is my niece.
Tooo cute
So even the consciences in China were rebelling against it, but nobody knew because it was on the hush hush.
Pray the Lord that it is true and praise the Lord.
I’ve been weird... I know about the Chinese trade situation, but sometimes when I have bought something Chinese, I have prayed for blessing to the Chinese people. Could even this be a witness to the Chinese people that there is something better out there, past China?
God please bless this sad sinful world because it is lost without You.
The only way to protect them from the evil state.
I pray as many as desire it, will find loving husbands, in China or elsewhere.
that just helps restore my faith in the goodness of men.
The 100 million strong Chinese People’s Expendable Bachelor Army wants to know more!
Bless you. My late brother-in-law adopted a baby girl from China many years ago. She is a beautiful, smart and talented child.
She is very fortunate to have you as a parent. God bless you.
Sweet!
You would think. I've always wondered why this isn't the case in India, where the dowry is deeply routed in tradition. I believe it's just a matter of time before the supply/demand equation will result in the bride's family receiving the dowry, instead of the other way around.
when the romans ran out of women they started a war and took the defeated tribe’s women back to rome. Rape of the Sabine Women
BUMP!
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...
Funny: Me, too.
Though she was put in an orphanage and mistreated because she was not 100% Chinese, adopted by my sis.
Proud to have her as my niece.
China has an extremely racist culture...most don’t know it.
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