Wednesday, October 20, 2010

What can be done to stop the black market trade of children in the People's Republic?

China's missing children - 101 East
Tens of thousands of children are abducted and sold in China's black market every year.

It is estimated that more than 70,000 children go missing in China every year, an average of 192 a day.

The most common cases occur in poor mountain areas where a family might sell a child for money or buy a son to carry on the family line, and in big cities where the children of migrant workers are usually targeted.

In a society that traditionally favours male heirs, it is often boys who are taken and who are then sold for adoption or to gangs of beggars.

Girls and women are also abducted and often used as labourers or as brides for unwed sons. - Al Jazeera English


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