There now that I have your attention, the purpose of this blog is to bring to light the mass infanticide of baby girls thats taking place in China. I would have thought more of you would have heard about this, but judging from the responses from my last blog many of you haven't. In China they are dealing with overpopulation, to combat this the government has put a "one child law" in place. A quick search can verify and provide you with plenty of information about this. Anyway, patriarchy is very strong in China and because of the one child law, male babies are wanted much more then females. The reason behind this is that many Chinese familes only wish to pass down their valuables to a male heir, and to have a male carry on the family name. In many cases when a couple has a baby girl they are devestated, this is where the infanticide come in. Thousands of baby girls have been smothered to death, many drowned, and even more put up for adoption. The problem with adoption agencies is many of them have such difficulty placing female babies that they put them into what's known as "Dying Rooms". In these rooms they put these baby girls into little wooden chairs with a hole in the bottom and a bucket underneath, the babies are given little to no attention or love, after a while they get a condition where they stop crying and simply rock back and forth until they die of neglect, heat, starvation, and sickness. Some estimates show that theres been in the roughly 15 million baby girls murdered or left to die in these orphanages!! Very little has ever been done about this travesty even though we know it continues to go on daily. This is beginning to take an affect on China in that it is expected that in the future their will be a major shortage of females to the point that there will be huge numbers of bachelors with few brides to choose from.
If you think I'm lying or exaggerating then check out these out, or do a simple search yourself theres plenty of info about this.
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/specials/9908/china.social.overview/content/infanticide.html
http://www.gendercide.org/case_infanticide.html
For info on Dying rooms: http://truevisiontv.com/drsmpm.html
