China's Lost Girls

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• Posted 08/14/11 by Thuan Anh Lam
  Lisa Ling is a liar. There is no such thing as missing baby girls in China. China’s one child policy causes many parents abandon their daughters because they prefer boys over girls, but it doesn’t cause any abortion, hidden of the baby girls or neither causes killing of baby girls sometime. Using ultrasound to find out the gender of the babies when the women are pregnant is illegal in China, so how do the women know the babies in their wombs are girls to have the abortions? Does Lisa Ling know, witness, or have any document of the parents hide their baby girls or sometime killing their baby girls? She stated something that she didn’t have any proof in her document video by the American National Geographic. There is a little gender imbalance in China because of a portion of those abandoned baby girls are adopted by foreigners. The rest of those abandoned baby girls just live their childhood in the Orphanage, and they will become ordinary Chinese citizens and have normal happy lives when they grow up. For those men who can’t find the women to get married, they can look for women in foreign countries to bring back to China to live with them or to live with their wives in those countries. The sad thing about it is those abandoned girls don’t know who their parents are. In the end of the document video, Denise was crazy when she said thank you in Vietnamese language at the airport. Denise is an American, and she was in China, so she should have said thank you in Chinese or in English if she doesn’t speak Chinese. I believe China will quit communism, and reunify with Taiwan in 2030. Reunification and democracy will make China’s economy grows at the faster rates. Then China will let its citizen to have more children.
• Posted 07/16/11 by Liza
  Anybody thinking about what gender disparity is brewing in the U.S. with all these girls being brought over?
• Posted 07/14/11 by joey
  Wow -- making me sit through a 1 minute commercial only to be told that they can't show the film, check back later.
• Posted 07/13/11 by walkerny
  What is the alternative to strong population control measures? Look at India, Pakistan, Africa and South America...it is just exchanging one form of misery for another.
• Posted 07/12/11 by l
  I'm chinese american and completely unsympathetic to the 10% of men who will never be able to find a mate due to their parents' preference for boys. I say get rid of the excess males by any means necessary. Girls, buy guns and learn to use it before #######s try to kidnap you.
• Posted 07/10/11 by j
  There is something wrong with the human race. I was saddened to read in a recent gallup poll that showed most americans would choose to have a boy if they could only have one child.
• Posted 07/09/11 by Sascha
  The film will not play!
• Posted 07/09/11 by Leigh
  Just to inform some of you, the cost of adoption is absurd in almost every instance. The cost has sky-rocketed in the past 10 years. China is one of the least expensive countries. China has also created some increadibly stupid "rules" around who can and can not adopt. Granted they have this right as it is their children, but some have nothing with finding a loving home. A few years ago they came out and said that they did not have "enough" girls, so they had to limit adoptions. Not true, they have orphanages FULL of girls. Remember the size of this country. As for American's adopting these girls and not having a bias. LOL! Americans are compeletely biased towards adopting females. I adopted two children from Russia (a brother and sister) and always the bias for Americans (and others to be fair) to to adopt female children. I think the belief is that they are easier to raise, somehow. After 10 years of raising my Russian children, I can say that they are both equally wonderful. By the way, the only reason I chose Russia was because at the time I adopted, the waiting time to adopt from China was 18 months (really not reason for it). My adoption (after homestudy), was an extremely painless 4 months. As for cost, Russia itself charges NOTHING for adoptions. It is the American adoption agencies, translators, etc. who charge these absurd fees. My adoption cost about $30,000 including travel (two trips to Russia and I spent as long as I could there for the fun of it). Now it cost $60,000 for ONE baby. Ridiculous!
• Posted 04/18/11 by jessica
  I was watching the film and it cut me off I need to WATCH COMPLETE VIDEO CHINAS LOST GIRLS TODAY THI SITE IS SAYING ITS UNAVAILABLE ? HELP PLEASE
• Posted 01/11/10 by Maya Holliday
  I'm only 10 years old and I have been to China to adopt my little sister when I was 5 years old. I didn't know that everything was like that. It is amazing. If you want a child I beg you ADOPT!
• Posted 10/19/09 by pam
  Atleast the truth has been coming out now, that these girls are also TAKEN and STOLEN for the adoption market in China.
• Posted 10/05/09 by Juanita Zerkle
  Culture?
• Posted 09/20/09 by Candie
  I am speechless. The world is so messed up. Not just in China, but everywhere.
• Posted 08/24/09 by cfabio
  it's not about "preferring to have a boy." It's much more complex than that. WIthout a son, parents won't have anyone to take care of them when they are too old to work. In China, when daughters marry, they go to the husband's family where they are then expected to care for the husband's aging parents. You have to understand the whole culture, in order to make sense of the situation. Parents don't prefer to abandon their daughters. It breaks their hearts. Often, the mother doesn't have a choice-- the baby may be taken from her as soon as she is born; the mother feels the pain of labor, hears the baby cry, hears the announcement that the baby is female, and then never sees the child again. Often another family member will clothe the baby, write a loving note with vital information, and take the baby to an orphanage or market place in secret. I adopted my daughter from China and I know that somewhere across the world, there's a woman who grieves every day for having lost her daughter. I feel a strong responsibility to that unknown woman, to provide my daughter with the love and the life she was not permitted to.
• Posted 06/30/09 by moth
  At Cornell when the ratio of males to females was 10:1 a cute guy friend who went there thought the girls became totally arrogant, unapproachable and full of themselves. Or are all three descriptions the same thing? You can read about projected fear that girls will be enslaved for prostitution with these percentages, or unenslaved prostitution, as you see in military areas, would take over. Maybe Chinese men will simply go to other countries to find mates. People mess up everything else so why expect more from this interference. It's another bizarre thing to watch, except that it's human lives and might be painful. Maybe it won't be all bad. Control over spoiled men's (one boy per family- they will be spoiled) egos. Girls Rule.
• Posted 06/27/09 by Yung Truong
  It's sad to see so many baby girls being abandoned in China just because the parents prefer to have a boy due to the "one child policy". Since the Chinese government is quite wealthy as a nation, they should put some kind of money incentive or something to parents who are willing to keep their baby girls. If the Chinese government don't find a way to resolve this overpopulated males quickly, it'll be a lot more costly (both financially and socially) in the long run. Unfortunately, the problem is already happening...
• Posted 06/27/09 by Yung Truong
  It's sad to see so many baby girls being abandoned in China just because the parents prefer to have a boy due to the "one child policy". Since the Chinese government is quite wealthy as a nation, they should put some kind of money incentive or something to parents who are willing to keep their baby girls. If the Chinese government don't find a way to resolve this overpopulated males quickly, it'll be a lot more costly (both financially and socially) in the long run. Unfortunately, the problem is already happening...
• Posted 06/27/09 by Yung Truong
  It's sad to see so many baby girls being abandoned in China just because the parents prefer to have a boy due to the "one child policy". Since the Chinese government is quite wealthy as a nation, they should put some kind of money incentive or something to parents who are willing to keep their baby girls. If the Chinese government don't find a way to resolve this overpopulated males quickly, it'll be a lot more costly (both financially and socially) in the long run. Unfortunately, the problem is already happening...
• Posted 06/06/09 by anon
  goodluck china, seriously...
• Posted 05/28/09 by Karen
  It was beautiful. Sad and happy at the same time.
• Posted 05/18/09 by sam
  I just watched this. Educational but heartbreaking.
• Posted 05/17/09 by kwoi
  This link is full of crock. None of my friends have been able to log on. It just keeps sayin ''there are no videos available at this time.''
• Posted 04/26/09 by Zoe
  I loved watching this movie! It is such a good movie that i can relate to. Since i was adopted. It just inspired me so much.
• Posted 04/09/09 by Kimberly
  Fantastic Doc I would love to see more on the effect of so many boys growing up without girls in China. Also couldn't help noticing that guy from Alanta seemed to think Lucy was the chinese girl in Charlies Angels. Not to put down Lucy Lui but I think Lucy is one of the most interesting reporters out there! I would love to see more from her.
• Posted 04/09/09 by John J. Grimes
  One unknown with respect to this situation is the practice of kidnapping young boys that are then sold to a family seeking a male child. More than 4,000 males and their grieving families have fallen victim to this horrible crime in the past year.
• Posted 04/07/09 by dina little
  Americans are so awesome.
• Posted 04/07/09 by dina little
  China is throwing their girls out...Americans are rescuing these girls.
• Posted 03/30/09 by Raistlin
  What we aren't understanding is that we are taking their daughters. Not the parents' daughters, but the country's. Honestly, when you think of China, or any other country for that matter, what is the best thing you can think of? The women. Women make the nation what it is. Sure, men may run it through the government most of the time, but women add most of the culture, pride, and doggonnit they give it more children--the light and future of the world. If you had a case full of uncut diamonds, and you knew exactly where each one came from, and the potential was limitless, how hard would it be for you to let one go? Especially if it were to someone you don't even know. Abortion isn't an option. Allowing millions to grow up parentless with the knowledge that no one wanted you due to your gender only is inhumane. Dismissing the One Child Policy ignites the fuse leading to the twenty-seven kegs of gunpowder bound to China's chest. Giving these precious jewels away to Americans, no matter how loving, won't solve it either. There must needs be a different solution, a better solution.
• Posted 03/30/09 by Raistlin
  What we aren't understanding is that we are taking their daughters. Not the parents' daughters, but the country's. Honestly, when you think of China, or any other country for that matter, what is the best thing you can think of? The women. Women make the nation what it is. Sure, men may run it through the government most of the time, but women add most of the culture, pride, and doggonnit they give it more children--the light and future of the world. If you had a case full of uncut diamonds, and you knew exactly where each one came from, and the potential was limitless, how hard would it be for you to let one go? Especially if it were to someone you don't even know. Abortion isn't an option. Allowing millions to grow up parentless with the knowledge that no one wanted you due to your gender only is inhumane. Dismissing the One Child Policy ignites the fuse leading to the twenty-seven kegs of gunpowder bound to China's chest. Giving these precious jewels away to Americans, no matter how loving, won't solve it either. There must needs be a different solution, a better solution.
• Posted 03/16/09 by sfa
  Where are the millions of testosterone-charged young Chinese males going to find mates since China's one-child policy has made young women as rare as hen's teeth?
• Posted 03/12/09 by Katie
  I have three boys and each time I was pregnant the sex of the baby never mattered. We just prayed for a healthy baby. I looked into adopting prior to having our third baby, but the cost of the adoption made it impossible. If China doesn't want their baby girls, then why don't they make the adoption fees more reasonable? I understand some of the fees are for the home study to make sure we are a good family, but the majority of the fees were going to the country of origin and to the agency facilitating the adoption. It breaks my heart to see all those cribs lined up with babies waiting for parents to love them. I would adopt in a heartbeat.
• Posted 03/12/09 by wanda
  A global law should be passed that all orphans be adopted without a price list. $20,000.00 proves money is the root of all evil. Lives, not money, counts.
• Posted 03/12/09 by lori
  Whats really sad is the $20,000 they expect to adopt these girls.My husband and i were in the process of a China adoption,but ran out of money.I am unable to have children and would take 6 of these girls and raise them well if i could i just don't have the $$$$ to do it------it breaks my heart.
• Posted 08/28/08 by Katie
  My parents had three girls — and they were both offended when strangers suggested they keep trying for a boy. I admire the parents who adopt these girls. Americans still have a way to go for true fairness with respect to gender. But, I'm proud our society is more equally-minded than other cultures and willing to give these girls a home.
• Posted 08/27/08 by Traci
  I thoroughly enjoyed this documentary. I have heard about the issued in China for decades growing up but this piece beautifully showed it in a very personal way.