China's Hidden Children: Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy

by Kay Ann Johnson

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In the thirty-five years since China instituted its One-Child Policy, 120,000 children--mostly girls--have left China through international adoption, including 85,000 to the United States. It's generally assumed that this diaspora is the result of China's approach to population control, but there is also the underlying belief that the majority of adoptees are daughters because the One-Child Policy often collides with the traditional preference for...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:022635251X

ISBN13:9780226352510

Release Date:March 2016

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:224 Pages

Weight:1.04 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 5.6" x 8.7"

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Parenting & Relationships Political Science Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences

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