China's Attitude Toward Girls Deplorable

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This week, a friend will travel to China to meet her infant daughter. The child was abandoned at birth and cared for by a stranger who found her near her home. The woman cared for the child until space became available in an orphanage, where the baby has lived since.

This child's personal history is gut-wrenching but not uncommon in China. China's "one child" policy and an old cultural preference for male heirs has devalued girls to the point that some infants are left in the countryside as if they were an unwanted litter of kittens.

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China's Attitude Toward Girls Deplorable

Those attitudes and practices have resulted in a growing gender imbalance. In the past 20 years in China, female births have declined markedly compared with male births. The ratio is 117 boys for 100 girls, ba...

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