Child Abandonment in China

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Quietly and dreadfully going through the dark streets in China, a mother carries her new born baby girl who is screaming a piercing sound, that sound it the last memory that the mother will ever have of her daughter. The mother has no time to say goodbye to her child, only the last few minutes she gets to hold her, while running to her destination. Exhausted, she knows that she has no option, she knows that she cannot take care of her baby girl, she has to let her go. The only way the daughter will live, is if her mother lets her go. She arrives at her destination and she knows that she cannot change her mind any longer. She opens the door to a dark building, carefully places her daughter in a baby hatch, and leaves as soon as she can to beat the alarm from the building. Within five to ten minutes of placing her daughter in the baby hatch, an alarm goes off. The alarm lets the workers at the baby hatch that there is a new child that has been abandoned. Although illegal, the act of abandoning a child in China is easily accessible to parents in China. Due to the overpopulation in China, the one child policy was put into place, with this, the infant mortality rate began to increase, and many more parents were abandoning their children which is a huge crime all over the world.
In the late 20th century, the one child policy was established, and still continues today, although it is slightly altered. In the first twenty years of the one child policy, China’s population went from 1.3 billion to 300 million, which is why the policy has changed. Today, the one child policy has changed; depending on the couple, if one or both of the parents is a single child, they may have a second child. The one child policy had started due to the overp...

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