China Correcting Imbalance
It’s wonderful, and perhaps all too rare, when countries realize their mistakes and take steps to correct them. China Daily reports that the imbalance between the numbers of boys and girls in China is growing so severe that if left unchecked there will be 25 million men in China between 2015 and 2030 with no hope of finding a mate.
Many Chinese parents abort the wife’s pregnancy if tests show the fetus is female so that they can try again for a boy. As a result, there are 119 boys born for every 100 girls in China; the rest of the world averages between 103 and 107 boys for 100 girls.
But China has stepped up legal action and has prosecuted 3,000 cases of gender selective abortion for non-medical purposes over the past two years.
China’s State Population and Family Planning Commission’s (SCPFP) three-year-old “Care for Girls” program offers hope that the imbalance can be corrected by providing social benefits, including cash payments, to families with only girls, in order to boost the status of girls and women. The program has significantly reduced the boys-to-girls ratio in the 21 counties that ran the pilot program. The SCPFP will now extend the program to all provincial regions.
Population Research Institute reports that over a hundred million baby girls in China have died by abortion, infanticide, abandonment and neglect since the beginning of China’s one-child policy in 1981.
Families in other countries are now adopting abandoned Chinese baby girls to do what they can to rescue these precious children of God.
