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