China's+Missing+Girls-O'Connor

media type="youtube" key="_l0up0SQymU" height="265" width="409" Thesis: China's 'missing girls' has grown dramatically since the one child policy was created leading to abduction, rape, and sex-trafficing.







China's missing girls has grown dramatically since the one child policy was created. Women, knowing that men would support and care for the family, would abort or murder their girl children. Since the ban of ultrasounds, infenticide or gendercide has also grown incredibly. China, in an attempt to make girls more vaulable, has made billboards advertising that girls are worth it and has also allowed people to have 2 children maximum if their first child was born a girl. Unfortunantly, the ratio of boys to girls is 115:100 much larger then the should be ratio of 105:104. Experts predict that by 2020 more then 50million men will not have wives leading to an extreme jump in sex-trafficing, abduction, and rape.

1950 - Abortion becomes widely accessible in China 1978 - One Child Policy per Couple policy created 1980 - Ultra Sounds avalible 1985 - China allows couples in rural areas and those with daughters to have a second child 1989 - China bans prenatal sex determination and pre-implantion sex selection 1991 - UNFPA raises the issue of China's gender imablance - the first international agency to speak out about it 2002 - China's census indicates the sex ratio of newborns is 166 boys to 100 girls 2006 - Fertility rate drops from 5.7 to 2.3 2011 - China announces crackdown on anyone using ultrasound to determine fetal gender or performing sex-selective abortions.

To Answer on Paper:

1) What do you think China should do to help even out the ratio of boys to girls? How effective do you think their current advirtisement plan will be? Why? 2) Do you think the one-child-policy should be abolished? Why? 3) How do you think Chinese people feel about the one child policy? How do you think they would feel if it was changed?