The Issue Of Female Infanticide Essay
The one-child policy has produced consequences beyond the goal of reducing population growth. Most notably, the country’s overall sex ratio has become skewed toward males. Traditionally, male children (especially firstborn) have been preferred—particularly in rural areas—as sons inherit the family name and property and are responsible for the care of elderly parents. When most families were restricted to one child, having a girl became highly undesirable, resulting in a rise in abortions of female fetuses ,increases in the number of female children who were placed in orphanages or were abandoned, and even infanticide of baby girls. (source 1) When the One Child Policy was adopted in 1979, China 's population was about 972 million people. In 2012 the…