China's Stolen Children
Monday, July 14, 2008
HBO is airing the documentary tonight.
Snippets from the synopsis - read the whole thing here.
Hooray for DVRs!
H/T Jill Stanek
Snippets from the synopsis - read the whole thing here.
Through the personal stories of several men, women and children whose lives are impacted by the stolen-child black market in China, China's Stolen Children brings viewers face-to-face with a crisis brought on by the controversial one-child policy, implemented in 1979 to slow the country's explosive population growth. ..
The film is a powerful indictment of the unforeseen impact of the world's largest experiment in social engineering. One man, Detective Zhu, works full-time to locate missing children, with modest success. His latest case involves Chen Jie, a boy kidnapped at 5 while under his grandmother's car...
Legal abortions are commonplace for Chinese families in the one-child era. Moreover, with ultrasound machines allowing parents to determine gender at 4-5 months, many first-time pregnancies are aborted if the fetus is female.
Hooray for DVRs!
H/T Jill Stanek
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