Training teacher Huili Chen Nanle County is a poor rural district. Under pressure of heavy fines for “illegal” childbirth, the abortion of girls is common. There was an urgent need to open the Baby Shower project in Nanle. On Sept. 23-24, 2010, our local director Chen and her assistant arrived in Nanle to distribute gift and aid. That…
Source: BBC News OnlineAuthor: Pulsihed Time: 25 September 2010 Thirty years after the introduction of China’s one-child policy, the government is being urged to rethink its population controls. During the period that I grew up in China in the 1960s and 70s, Chinese families could have as many children as they liked. Many had four…
By WRIC Volunteer Li Yanglong Gu’s husband wanted a son. He already had two daughters. He asked his wife to try one more time, illegally, to bear a son. She was determined to give the family a boy who could carry the family name forward. Gu’s first daughter was six, the second one four and…
In China’s underdeveloped rural villages, for parents who have more than one child, when faced with the overwhelming fine for violating the one-child policy, some accepted the alternative of their baby girls being taken away by the family planning workers in order not to pay the fine. The government’s family planning workers see nothing wrong…
Summary: Because Mr. Zhao was under the minimum marriage age of 22 in April when his wife, Ms. Xie, became pregnant, the local Birth Control Bureau demanded a ¥1,500 fine. When he disputed it, the fine was raised to ¥5,000. His mother-in-law was detained by the Bureau on Sept. 3. When on the next…