Forbidden Children: China's One-Child Policy
Conflicted: A History Podcast
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Killing a Newborn Baby Girl
Journalist met many parents across china who felt that they had no other choice but to kill their new born baby girls. Many were under indescribable pressure from their husbands and inlaws to produce a son, threatened with homelessness and divorce. She met one woman whose mother in law had killed four of her daughters before finally giving birth to a son - all in the course of just six years. One woman named come had been forced to drown her new born daughter with her own hands.
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