Forbidden Children: China's One-Child Policy
Conflicted: A History Podcast
The One Child Policy in China
Many chinese mothers did everything they could to preserve the lives of their out of plan children. But as we know, humanity falls on a moral spectrum and some parents found it more pragmatic to simply treat their inconvenient daughters as mis fires. A report from the 19 eighties calculated that 97 point five % of chinese abortions, coerced or otherwise, were of female fetuses. And perhaps most disturbingly, infanticide became very, very commonplace during the toughest years of the one child policy,. especially in poor rural areas. One man was brought up on charges of killing his two tiny daughters so that he and his wife could start fresh and try for a boy.
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