National Geographic: China's Lost Girls

As you can see, I love watching and writing material on true events.  This gives people a sense of what they should expect from the movie, article, or event that I had the pleasure of seeing, reading, or attending.  In preparing for work, I decided to watch National Geographic: China's Lost Girls.  I chose to watch this because I have always been interested in China and their population growth.  I had also read or heard something about China's one child law and how they often gave up children with mental or physical disabilities.  While this documentary did not address the mental and physical disabilities issue, it did address the one child law.

How tough would it be if you lived in a country where you were only allowed to have one kid?  It would be even tougher if your first and only child had to be a boy, so he could work and take care of his family when they got older.  Maybe you are reading this reaction and realizing that you do have a tough decision, such as the one stated above.  Well, this is one of the touch decisions individuals in China have to, in order to control its population.  This law, inacted in 1979 by Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, is the very reason why males are outnumbering females, which could cause an increase in violence, rape, and anger issues amongst males.

 I know after reading the information above, you are asking a lot of questions such as: What happens if someone decides to have a second child?  Where is the female population going?  And what type of socialize skills does a child have being raised with no siblings?  Well, families that have more than one child have to pay a child tax.  For all those others who do not want to pay the child tax, they give up their child or horrible things happen to that child, such as death.  Can you imagine giving up your very own child or sentencing your child to death because of not wanting to pay the child tax or because you had two girls?  Well, these are some of the issues and concerns that people in this country are facing.  A lot of the female babies are being placed in orphanages and/or are adopted by American families.  It usually takes up to a year for an adoption to be completed and can be as expensive at $18,000.  While the price does seem a bit high, there has been many American families that have adopted female Chinese children.  As for the question regarding the socialization skills for children without siblings, it seems that there has been an increase in obesity within the country.  This can be attributed to the child being spoiled, playing video games, and not having an in-house playmate, as do others with siblings.

While this law does not seem to be changing anytime soon, as confirmed by Zhang Weiqing in 2006, the information is informative to those who are interested in adopting.