‘One Child Nation’ Exposes the Tragic Consequences of Chinese Population Control
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- Documentary filmmaker Nanfu Wang reveals the history and horror of China’s one-child policy.
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Imposed in 1979, China's one-child policy devastated generations of families. Countless children were abducted or killed, women were subjected to forced abortions and sterilizations, and millions of girls disappeared before the Communist Party finally ended the policy in 2015.
In the documentary One Child Nation, out now in select theaters and later this year on Amazon, director Nanfu Wang revisits her experience growing up in rural China in the late 1980s and '90s. The film is both a deeply personal portrait of family life under the one-child regime and a searing exposé of its draconian horrors.
One Child Nation won the Grand Jury Prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival and has earned rave reviews from critics. In it, Wang interviews both the victims and the officials responsible for enforcing the one-child policy, revealing the true devastation it wrought on all Chinese citizens, including her own family.
Wang sat down with Reason's Justin Monticello to go behind the scenes and delve deeper into some of the revelations contained in her highly-anticipated film.
Produced by Justin Monticello. Cameras by Paul Detrick and John Osterhoudt. Music by Silent Partner.
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Nobody wants a baby girl . . . but everyone wants a young wife or daughter in-law.
In a Chinese custom, women leave to join their husband’s household when she marries. If a couple only has one child, and it’s a daughter, she will likely have to leave once she gets married (which is the assumption). With little to no social security in China, they’ve just lost their retirement plan.
What I find even more troubling and telling of sexual discrimination is that if a woman is unmarried when she reaches 25 years old in China, she is considered ‘leftovers’ and undesirable.
Not a lot of options, guys.
Not to worry. They can always import one from a poor Asian country.
and now chinese girl go for a lot of money....
@@henrytomas LOL
Crazyright. .
When a policy is so bad human traffickers become heroes. DAMN
See Eugenics based anti immigration laws magatards love and worship thus leading to "human trafficking" as an example.
@@budsvan12 Also this happened because of abortion laws. So why switch the topic to immigration? Does @M Street wants to back his/her commie comrades?
@@MrJjjd1 Propaganda has obviously been effective, knowledge is power. If you think the US immigration laws are a form of eugenics all you need to to do is watch more videos on this channel to see how you are absolutely wrong in every way. The US has a ridiculously generous immigration policy.
@@jaydunbar7538
"Propaganda has been effective"
It sure has! Just look at how easily propaganda got a bunch of brainwashed, deceived, border worshippers defending their own slave masters, their slave plantation as demarcated by imaginary lines and their own enslavement while joining hands with the same eugenics believers who wrote anti immigration laws, forced sterilization/abortion laws, minimum wage laws and about 99% of the "laws" you statists worship and blindly obey!
Facts don't give a damn about your feelings and it is a FACT eugenicists wrote anti immigration laws whether you like it or not!
Today's Anti-Immigration Script Was Written 100 Years Ago by America's Elite
m.th-cam.com/video/WyMxBy4Bduw/w-d-xo.html
Congrats on joining hands with the same Satanic, psychopathic, eugenics believing NWO types you'd no doubt swear, ignorantly, you're against.
Take a big bow for being one of their "useful idiots!"
@@budsvan12 Gee, wulf, I guess the non stop warfare by the US during it's existence in which it has killed more men, women and children than all the genocidal tyrants of the 20th century combined just means "'Murikka is sweet, innocent and can do no wrong even when it is committing murder and genocide abroad as well as here at home," huh.
Oh look. You called me a cuck. Isn't that cute?
Maybe one day when you grow up and stop worshipping a self serving, egomaniacal, con man with a blond dyed, birds nest combover and the knowledge and understanding of a 4th grader as god, maybe you'll be able to use two syllable words and figure out how to pull your head out of your ass.
Covefefe? Covefefe bigly or yugely?
I’m the second child. My mom hid in the attic for most of her pregnancy. When my mom was hit by a motorcycle, she was too afraid to go to the hospital in fear that they would abort me. But she was afraid I needed that medical help anyways and went to the hospital and they told her to abort me because I was “deformed” and will be “retarded”. My mom left not believing them and continued to hide in the attic till I was born. I couldn’t go to school or have an identity. My parents bribed officials and jumped through every loop hole they found and eventually brought the whole family to America so we can live normally.
People asked if I was ever going to go back to China. Hell no. The government is a shithole
What a strong woman.
Omg ur mom she is a warrior,best of luck for your future bud^^
Celtic Onoir there is nothing stronger than a mother trying to protect their children
I was an expat in Kenya as a child and had Chinese friends who were brother and sister. I don't whether they were from the PRC or Taiwan, but if the former is the case, the implications become alarmingly real
Shes a badass
“Well, well, well...if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions”
- China, probably
Pretty unlikely. Socialist nations often attribute problems in country to outside forces. You remember during the middle of 2020 when China reported 0 new covid cases except for a few that came from foreign nationals?
@@Tailstraw_xD yeah they magically recovered faster than any other country on the planet iirc
🤣🤣🤣
They still have their food and water disasters to worry about, not to mention they've been the source of every covid scale illness for several decades now, so they've got plenty more chances to screw things up more.
@@TranceCore3 yeah it’s weird. Probably bc they finally learnt what mistakes they did and those who r educated rises up and takes over and quickly recovers the country. But then they grow old, seeing they have so much power and they repeat history :/
When human traffickers are considered "good guys" you know your country is passed the line of sanity.
Yeah, those words say it all.
rip bozo #packwatch
These days there have been shows airing on Chinese television specifically about reuniting member of families that were kidnapped or sold off, that my family in China likes to watch. I'm not sure how legitimate they are though or how much of an effect it actually has.
Yeah that’s so true. How sad and horrible
china passed it in 1950 mao evil itself still is seen as the great hero how crazy can people get nuke em
I was born in China, and I was one of the many children who were effected by the one child policy. I was abandoned on a foot bridge in China, and later adopted by a family from America. I wouldn’t be here commenting this on TH-cam if it wasn’t for them, honestly
Wow hope you stay safe
Im glad and joyous you are ok😍😍😍😍😍
Living a better life nice 🙂
God bless u
@P M he just said he was one of those children affected by the one child policy lol
Edit:oh wait nvm I get it now
"They monitor women's periods ..."
Big Brother ain't got shit on this.
Adrian Arshad big brother monitors women’s periods? Could you elaborate
I N S E C U R EE In 1984, the government knows everything their citizens do using constant surveillance and the ‘thought police.’ So they monitor everything they do, like what they are doing in China.
@@w3apon i think the comment refers to the novel 1984
Oh, China is FULL of big brother. In fact, with their social monitoring 'game' that they have implemented, they have their own CITIZENS doing it to each other.
All the people that don't know the show "Big Brother" was based on the novel 1984 😂
I was born in Hong Kong as a second child because HK didnt have the same regulations as mainland China. When I first got to Beijing as an international middle school student, people were surprised I have a sister. It was just really sad
*Im curious to ask of how many females were there in your time at Beijing*
@@MainMite06 Honestly, the difference between male-female population wasnt noticeable at all.
@@coffeecat8826 how did you feel about the protests in HK from 2019-2020
@@gorgewashingmachine As someone who experienced both cultures (although they’re both Chinese, we still have different ideals and political values cuz of UK rule), yh I totally support the HKers, but I also knew how oppressive and nasty the Chinese gov can be that I know it would be futile. I’d compare mainland as Nazi Germany or North Korea, now imagine a small island going up against Kim JungUn. They finally fucked us up during the pandemic (covid regulations). On the bright side, we earned support from the UK and most of the world, so that’s a good start.
@@coffeecat8826 thank you, it sucks more people didnt hear about it.
My friend was born in China. His parents left him in a parking lot and thankfully he was adopted by an Italian couple to live here in America.
@bryan diaz varela this is plausible if they couldnt afford the fines, fees, prison time and judgement from the community. The mom was able to hide the pregnancy, give birth at home without any medical care through the pregnancy, durning the birth or after for mom or child. Then they put him in an area they knew someone would find him. There are hundreds of stories that are similar to this in china.
@bryan diaz varela it literally happened. You look mad stupid rn dude.
bryan diaz varela unlike you, some of us have friends 😂
Wow, poor baby. I'm so glad that couple was able to save him. Hopefully the three of them have a good life now...
the West applauded the one-child policy when it was implemented, it was actually part of official US foreign policy, during the 1970s and 1980s en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Study_Memorandum_200
The western media conglomerates ran endless stories praising the one child policy when it was first implemented, nowadays the same people run the same endless stories bashing it
As of right now, the same population policy is being advocated in Africa and Islamic countries while at the same time they are bashing China for its past policy.
When I was in college, a Chinese student asked me if I had any siblings. I said "yes", and his face light up. He said "Wow! Did you like having a sibling?" I was like "sure" thinking what's wrong with this dude. It wasn't till the next day that I realized that China's one-child policy was a real thing. I was aware of the policy, but I guess I was subconsciously in denial of it.
sad story.
i met a chinese kid in uni too, they just have to pay a fine. and they can hav eone sibilin
@P C r u on crack or something?
@P C tf are you smoking dude?
@P C feminism is a capitalism movement aim to out more women in the workforce and to reduce salary cost.
even tho everyone hates to work in an environment thst you could get replaced by forein outsourcing team.
remember, when you are being a mom in a family, your will never get kicked out for making a stupid joke or a bad tweet. you are the most important perosn in the “family business o” No one can replace you.
And yet people still ask why Hong Kong people don't want to be part of China
The very fear & thought of their country having the one system.
They should leave.
Like it or not, hong kong IS (will be full) part of china
@@meferswift They certainly aren't going to leave.
@@jasonlui then prepare / embrace the chinese rule.
@@meferswift I m sure they embrace it already.
I was born in Nanchang 21 yeas ago. I stayed at the orphanage 9 months and then got adopted by a family. I've had a nice life and I feel so lucky to still be alive... Next year im visiting china and my orphanage wish me luck
Edit: So erm the chinese university I was going to has rejected me due to covid, however I expect to go there as soon as I can
I pray that you find more love than you expect, more peace than you imagine and the bright truth that lights your inner world. I pray the dreams of your heart come true. ❤
Be careful of them wanting money...
Do you live in America currently?
@@TheeCuteness thank you ❤️❤️
@@daylinhesford3116 nope, I'm from spain 😬
In my community there is an African saying that ‘a family without daughters is like a river without a source.’
You should be happy to get a girl because you are a girl and if you do not want to have a girl and are being sexist you're basically insulting yourself
Someone has to work, gotta have a woman.
@@RatherBHunterthenPrey yes, someone does have to work, doesn't have to be a woman tho bro...
@@RatherBHunterthenPrey Are you a man child lol
@@bao6893 in the African American community the men dont work. Better have some women around.
My uncle once found a baby girl in a dust bin he just kept her now she is my baby sister we have a 10 year gap
Wow your uncle is great man 😊👍..
How did he keep her? Did y’all move? Did y’all hid sorry for asking but I am just curious
Wait your uncle kept the child but she's your baby sister? Did you mean cousin or did i miss something?
@@lecherosadadulce7320 adoptive baby sister
omg u idiots . hes just making up a story for likes 🤦♀️
"Gave you child to a human trafficker in hopes she'd survive"
My heart just sunk
Honestly. And then when she explained that they'd end up in orphanages and eventually be adopted out to foreign couple all I kept thinking was, "you better hope that's where they'd end up". It is absolutely horrifying.
Chances are good they're prostitutes. I really wish I could curse China (I can't because my PO and the Contractor Monitoring my phone will violate me and send me back to Federal Incarceration for 3 years).
In fact, this policy just has boosted the equal rights for men and women. Many families only have one child. So this only child can get the support from the family no matter what gender. In ancient times, only men could get best educations, and looked for career.
@@huhuyang693 Killing baby girls boosted their human rights. Sounds about right for CCP logic.
@@rustym.shackelford5546 just do it bro! When you see evil call it what it is, and the Valkyries would take you to that special place in heaven when your time comes. No joke
That grandma who made the uncle abandon his daughter was absolutely heartless
Like, "Bitch, go ahead and off yourself. I'm taking care of my kid." Wtf?
Let’s not forgot the context before we start making judgments. Was it fucked up? Yeah but we’re talking about the Chinese governments doing
@@sillyslicker1 more food for baby!
@@andrewohler3198 exactly, we have no idea of what it was like back then
Well you do realise the amount of propaganda in china
Chinese men: we don’t have enough women!
Also Chinese men: throw that baby girl in the trash and give me a son!
Logic: none
Honestly this is so fked up
dictatorships are a terrible thing
Also women tbh, especially older women, or as we refer to them, boomers
Come to India .. Its equally worse ...
@@sharlondsilva Yeah, I saw a documentary about it. Sex selective abortion is pretty popular there. Some women even kill their bay if its a girl right after giving birth, so sad.
When I was like 14, I asked my Chinese neighbors why they left China, they said “you can have babies here, a house, a business... and you can keep them and they are actually yours forever” my heart broke when they explained the Chinese regime to me 😔
Cocó Aedo lmao you can have a house & a business there as well why do you think there’s so many rich chinese in the world dumbass
@@raineaine2560 Why do you think those Chinese did a business OUTSIDE China?
cestalia um wtf are you even talking about? Their business is all done inside China??? It’s founded in China and the headquarters are in China. I don’t see Tencent doing business outside. Jeez what do you even know about a country you never stepped foot in dumbass, how did China become the fastest growing economy.
Dont fight guys, they were different decades
@@raineaine2560 Well you can actually own a business but if the goverment wants you to do something, you do it or you the lose ownership.
when the only way to save your childs life is to GIVE them to a human trafficker the system of government has fully failed you
Yup this failed government system raised 300 million people out of poverty in the last 30 years.
THINK about that for a minute. Imagine the entire population of US living in abject poverty. And then in one generation everyone was in middle class. That's what this failed system achieved.
inexplicable01 😂😂😂😂
inexplicable01 finally some logic. So many sheeps that believe the rich who slander China. None of these people actually care, or have been to China or even spoke with a Chinese person about the actual reality of China
Handsome Squidward wow haha I’m laughing so hard!! You’re so ignorant and stupid, I can’t believe you think in such racist way. What can I say, I guess it’s common for you Americans. Maybe work on that in your country. Or better yet, apologize to all the Native Americans you’ve wiped out and sterilized to make room for the white man huh?
Handsome Squidward FYI it’s taboo to eat dogs and cats in China but I wouldn’t expect you to know that
I would say this is the biggest and longest massacre in human history
Look anywhere else and you'll see worse (Palestinians In Israel and ughyrs in china)
@@zMoaz there's no worse when talking about offing people on this scale, all the thing said in this thread are horrible and should be condemned and stopped in this day and age.
The ughyurs, palestinian children are suffering as well.
@@zMoaz the middle east in general, a lot of us can't find food.
Did you guys forget the black community (slavery), jewish community (holocaust), Indigenous people? Everyday being a visible minority in America and many other countries is a risk.
Monitoring women’s periods? That is just outrageous
That barely even registers on the "fucked up things" radar when you take all of the authoritarian/tyrant shit into context that China does to its people, the chinese communist party is one of the most evil forces in human history.
Tony Knight ooh I know I’ve read on them not to long ago and my mind was blown
That is what socialism and communism leads too.
They don’t now.
Good luck monitoring my period. It still likes to surprise me. BAM! 3 days early I’m wearing my favourite undies! BAM! 3 days late I’m in the middle of jog.
My wife and I have 6 children, 3 biological boys and 3 intelligent, talented, beautiful and amazing adopted Chinese daughters. We may never get to meet our daughters biological parents but we want them to know they are all doing great and we so appreciate the opportunity to raise these wonderful children.
@@crazyrichwumao you know it wasn't what he meant
May god bless you and your family to lead a happy healthy and wealthy life ahead
@@yahlolk8797 The hell are you, a racist?
May Allah bless you!!!
That's wonderful! Your family sounds lovely!
The fact that there are so many young woman in these comments that were abandon children due to this policy is sobering. They got adopted and got a chance to live. How many didn't.
I live in rural Canada and most asian from the same small town i grew up in, were all adopted. Including me, my sister and some friends. To be honest it was weird not seeing any “real” Chinese and only adoptees for many years.
@@minhee7 And it makes China an antagonist to itself. Adopted children likely won't know or learn about their ancestors' culture, leaving nothing but the negative effects of the awful government policies that almost let them die.
@@constantdisappointment5658 Oh well i can guarantee you that Chinese adoptee indeed doesn’t know about their ancestry and also known very little about Asian in general, if you want to learn about it, you’re basically on your own.
I'd say 80% died
@@constantdisappointment5658 Also more likely to marry a non-Chinese person, which further increases the chances of erasing whatever Chinese culture survives with the child. China is dumb asf.
My first semester my freshman year of college, I was in a math class. We were assigned partners to do a project.
My partner was a really kind guy who was from China but came to the U.S. to study abroad. We were talking about the project on Zoom when my older brother started making a ruckus in the other room.
I said, "Oh man, sorry dude. That's my older brother."
He gave me a look for a second as if he was surprised I had siblings, then said, "Oh, I forgot you guys have more than 1 kid here. I'm the second child and my parents had to pay a really huge fine for me."
"I'm actually the youngest of three. I have two older brothers," I said.
His eyes grew wide. I assumed it was because I was the third child AND a female. My parents were praying to have a girl when my mom was pregnant with me. Something like that would never happen in China.
All my Chinese sisters out there, you are so beautiful and I am happy to share this earth with you. You are inherently worthy of your life and I want you to know that being female is not wrong and you are incredible. ❤
yup ...from linda in scotland
oof hope it gets better for sisters in china
Just say "boyfriend" not partner, it's not that hard
@@nichy7734 what? she's talking about an academic assignment not a romantic relationship
@@nichy7734 u good bro
I can't even imagine an entire generation that never had siblings, that's so sad.
@@Labargoth There's pros and cons to both, believe it or not
As the only child here's the pros and cons
Cons: Alone, can't have a friend in the house,no one to ask for help(except for my parents and my cousins)
Pros:All the attention is yours,SPOILED
(Here's what I think🤷♂️)
Lucky as fuck...
@Elizabeth Vasserman I have two siblings and I agree. I made friends through my siblings and their friends so kids with no siblings have to work much harder because they don't inherit those connections.
@@Labargoth yeah. My little sister is ruining my ENTIRE life.
They monitor women's period
I'm sorry *WHAT*
*Big Brother is satisfied*
*smashes phone*
The US had a politician who did that.
@@thisistheaccountname really?? Who was it?
Laponzo i love George Orwell’s books
There’s that phrase: For the greater good. Run away from anyone who uses it.
I know right? Trying to prevent horror for future generations is such a bad idea! How dare they try to force irresponsible poverty stricken over breeders into doing the right thing!
Life Sucks, you didn’t watch the video did you?
Or just blow their brains out...
No one's going to stop me from winning the best village prize award.
Some thanos shit
My mom had 2 abortions, one before me (because they were too broke to raise a child) and one after me (because of the one-child policy). Sometimes I dream about having an elder brother and a little sister. Rest their souls.
I'm the second child from the 90s. My mom told me in order to give birth to me, my family was fined 10k usd. So basically i'm worth 10k usd lol
Wait is the penalty just being fined?
@@anna.318 in some places it was, in some places it was worse. And there were a lot of people that couldn't pay the fine.
@@anna.318 also those who couldn't pay and manage to keep the child somehow, the child couldn't be registered, so there are lots of girls in China who are not officially "born", therefore no rights whatsoever.
Because you are a boy, if you are a girl, you would be abandoned = worth nothing
When I was adopted it cost 15k usd I think it could have been more I don’t know
I had a student whose father got drunk on her birthday and was crying because she was born female. He said "I wish you were a boy" to her face. She was 9. There are very few people in this world that I hate, but he's one of them, for sure.
Based dad
I mean, girls can become boys now, so if she wanted to please her dad, she'd just change her gender
@@TylireousGaming you have no idea how it is in China huh?
@@wheatvegas7286 it’s a joke
@@TylireousGaming yeah that’s not how that works.
I remember my middle school science teacher (from 5 or so years ago, I don’t know his whereabouts now) had an ‘adopted’ Chinese daughter. He found a basket with a child in it while on a vacation. In said basket, there was a note, pleading that whomever found it would take the baby and raise it as their own. Though on the cusp of retirement, he felt obligated to liberate the baby from the abhorrent ideologies of the Chinese government. He came to the country as a mere tourist, and left carrying one of the most important people in his life. I find that moving. At times, your closest family will come from the most unpredictable places.
This doesn't makes sense, how could he return from China with a baby legally? The procedure is long and tiresome, especially for a tourist, who suddenly have Chinese baby?
Anirudh SilverKing I’m not the one who went through it, so i don’t have the answers. There’s obviously a process of liberation. There are a myriad of citizens who just ‘appear’ via defecting. Like, look at North Koreans. They have no anterior, legal account of residing in the countries they choose to travel to.. yet, they get away with it. Either A. they fabricate a counterfeit identity... or B. The nation they defect to endorses their route to partial autonomy. The USA firmly supports the emancipation of maltreated citizens from ideologically broken countries.
@@Endothelia that's all True, the timeframe bothers me. Pretty sure the prof wasn't planning on adapting an abandoned child as part of his schedule. To go through all the legal process within the limited time he has as a tourist is a bit odd. I don't pose this question to you, but I'm asking you to ponder about it. Maybe ask your prof for the exact details? ;)
As Anirudh said, this exact story doesn't seem plausible in this case because of the long process it takes to take a child (a citizen) out of a country as your own. I'm thinking there may be a darker side to the story that the professor chose not to share with you guys, such as the child being smuggled or something else illegal.
Awn
When I heard human traffickers my mind immediately went to sex trafficking so when she said they where taken to orphanages my heart released a little! It’s so heart breaking hearing about the pain the one child policy caused to all Chinese citizens
She said after some were sold on the black market as well.
typical that all responsibility was forced on women without even considering things like male vasectomy
...man can't have babies, though.
Chris Fuentes they can impregnate women tho
@@aebe1684 their logic revolves around "if there are X woman, it stands to reason there can only be X children. Men are insignificant." though.
@@aebe1684
You can literally have 1 guy impregnate thousands on women at a time. But a woman can only have 1 child at a time. Women are the bottleneck to the population.
Gorge Food if men can impregnate so many women then it makes sense that after a man has a child he gets a vasectomy. The reason that didn’t happen was because men were in power and didn’t want to have the responsibility so they forced it on women
5:40 when the government is so bad that human traffickers are considered the good guys.
That's pretty bad.😂
@HAPPY MASS SHOOTING USA
With the cost of millions lives lost, unbalance in gender, and an impact to the general lifestyle?
They're not seen as the good guys. They were left with no choice. Human traffickers SELL humans so they're not the good guys. Plus, the human traffickers probably abuse the children/people they sell
HAPPY MASS SHOOTING USA high employment rate? You misspell "shit ton of old people with no replacement"
@HAPPY MASS SHOOTING USA no we mean the children left abandoned and died or how about the ones in human trafficking who were most likely sexually abuse
I was born in China while my sister was born in Canada. When my mom went back to visit China she nearly got fined and had to pull out my sister's Canadian birth certificate
What!?
What is wrong with China?
I'm feel bad from your experience.
China did alot of chaos from many years including the Covid-19 incidents.
@@mazinquartz9781 they are a totalitarian state. What do you expect?
@@mazinquartz9781 China has always been messed up, time to wake up.
@@mazinquartz9781 always has been
Your family is what's wrong with the world
400m missing Chinese, that's a lot of blood on the CCP's hands.
African countries should learn from china
The country is already suffering from famine and doesn't have enough resources for the ever-growing population
@@kingchubs what, you want African children to be abandoned and left to die?
You forgot about over a hundred million that Mao starved to death during "the great leap forward".
Chinese Han babies. Ethnic minority do not need one child policy
"Do it for the greater good"
"Do it for the children"
"Do it for future generations"
=
"Do it because it benefits me"
@ls7orBust2 for who?
PugAssassin the goverment
@@lauryn2868 lol xdxdxdxdxdxdxdxdxxxxxxxx Dr dresses dry
"time to eat the dogs and fetus" -china
Altruism
The Greatest Circus of Mental Gymnastics on Earth.
Name another more effective method of getting people to do unnatural, immoral things to one another.
Hell even paying people goes so far but good intentions, "the greater good" that kills millions for free with a smile.
That woman smiling thankfully as she tells the story of her mother luckily having a boy so that they didn't abandon her sibling was one of the saddest things I have ever seen on a screen. That being a bright spot is horrifying; it should have never been able to get to a point where you were thankful for that. A powerful reminder that no matter what country or culture, overpowered governments inevitably destroy the very things they are suppose to support.
How to you like your dead children, aborted or starving? The Chinese government chose abortion.
Cobb false. A successful state wouldn’t let its people starve.
@@raaaaaaaaaam496 okay, lets just agree to disagree that overpopulation isnt a Problem.
Cobb it isn’t. A proper state can control it without violence and is able to produce enough agriculture to sustain its population.
that smile she gave, set me off too. I don't think she was bad, just dealing with a shitty situation caused by the government.
Millions murdered. And those poor women forced to kill her child probably left long term emotional damage.
But at least Warren and Bernie will provide free antidepressants though
@Maui Caui I hadn't heard that! That's awful too.
Enjoy communism.
@Maui Caui Good Good. Atleast under communism, people can still continue their bloodline instead of females here who will eradicate west in a few years.
I mean, its China. What did you expect?
They killed 70million people and called it a "Great Leap Forward" Killed 10000-40000 students denied it for years and just a couple weeks ago they acknowledged it and called it a "necessary sacrifice". They're currently bullying smaller asian countries and they also have started to spread influence in Africa. They're trying to assimilate Hong Kong into their Disgusting Mainland. They're putting China's local Muslim citizens called "Uhygurs" into Prisons disguised as "Re-Education Plants" and there's even reports of screaming and people dying. China is the absolute worst, but what can you do about it? You're just someone on the net.
It’s not just the government, it’s the culture. If people were just happy to have a child, I mean any child, this wouldn’t be a problem. It’s a joint effort.
@@Surteronarto communism doesn’t prefer over gender over the other, communism did not destroy the Chinese culture. Older Chinese people have always valued male children over female children as the male children stayed in the family after marriage.. where as the female children would marry into another family.
Most developed countries don't have enought babies but China shot itself in the foot with their sexism on top of population control
@@Purrpurrbun There’s no such thing as marrying into another family, and staying in the family. You both become one family.
@@ber1779 yes. But the point is that's not how that culture,and many other, sees it. It's sick, really.
@@elle7153 I thought we left baby girl infanticide in the dark ages
China: only 1 child
Woman: *conjoined twin*
China: *Error 404*
Thats bullshit keep to your self
@@americanninja4639 wth you guys
@@tashajoykin5192 come to florida one day and you will realize wat beimg tough is
Did you watch the movie, in the case of twins government confiscated one girl and put high ever changing tariff for family to get her back which was impossible. It was jus to cover their tracks as they sold the girl to America with the same sob story of family abandonment. Most of those proud America families who thought they were saving a child was the cause to the problem being the rich and high demand customers to the Chinese government. This fueled more confiscated children to be sold overseas and more broken families.
Snow Hibiscus not just regular twins. I’m talking ones who are two heads and one body. How is China going to resolve those cases?
I was abandoned at a park in China. Then taken to an orphanage where I was adopted and moved to Sweden.
I'm sorry for what happened to you. You were very lucky to be adopted and raised in a country like sweden...do you one day want to find your 'real' parents?
fadwa Nah, I do wanna meet them but I don’t think about it that often (it’s not something I really prioritize in life). After all, it was my adoptive parents who raised me up.. And Yes, I was lucky to start a life in Sweden. I don’t feel any hatred to my biological parents since I know that even if they abandoned me, it all turned out okay in the end.. I got to have a better life because of them and that’s why I’m grateful.. I just hope that they too feel at peace and are happy wherever they are
Nice
Same happened to me but abandoned in a hospital
Somebody from Sweden adopt me please
They want sons but not daughters and want grandchildren?............like a man can give birth.
They (a prospective future parent working on a farm) wanted someone who could farm the land and act as their retirement policy, and in a pre-industrial era, women simply weren't physically-capable. They lived in a poor, rural area, and this was their only means of survival.
The CCP tried to do things the easy way. They thought that if they just had fewer children, then each child would have more to inherit and each parent would have an easier time raising their children. But, as they're learning now, the easy way is not always the best way.
Exactly. Lessons in human biology was needed.
Thats why CCP members drink soy milk everyday lol
I don't like China and India in this matter
@@pikachuthunderbolt3919 I'm not Chinese so I am not sure about the situation in China at present..
But as a Indian I can say situation here in India is improving and it improved a lot. Access to better Health facilities, Education made people realise they need to change.. Only some states with less Education are now practicing such actions.. Rest of India is not doing the same...
Now the “victims” of one child policy are encouraged to have more kids, work 996, take care of their aging parents at the same time. It’s all so freaking ridiculous.
I was the first child in my family. I grew up on the north side of China and since I was born in the more modern china, it was a bit different. I stayed is the first child for 2 years until my mom had my sister,. They didn't take my sister away because luckily my family was wealthy and could just give tens of thousands away to keep my sister. My neighbours didn't really like my family has two girls and said that it would be better to give us away. My dad refused to give us away and kept both of us, no matter the hate we were getting. However, my mom was pregnant again and it was going to be risky. So my mom and dad decided to bring us to Canada, where my Grandma and aunts lived. They thought that my sister and I won't go through the hardship that my mom had to go through and that Canada was more safe, clean, and more layback then China. We did go to Canada, and my brother was born. We still would go back to China to visit family and that many people would still be very shocked to see a family of three where lived.
That's crazy. Moving to another country to avoid using a condom?
yeah because condoms are infalible and people cannot possibly want children, even multiple ones, on purpose. 🙄
@@moin6077 you serious?
the replies are absolutely idiotic
Your story is inspiring, and I hope things in China will get better soon.
China: You can only have one child!
Population: *starts failing*
China: *shocked pikachu face*
@@MM-hf7vy He says failing. Probably the unbalanced gender ratio.
Mihaela M population control has literally never ended well. China has gone to shit because of their Communist government and attempts to control things as minimal as people breathing.
Mihaela M are you seriously defending China? Fucking China?! Everything China does screws themselves over. Countless times over history China has collapsed because they can't function properly with all their bullshit. It's only a matter of time before modern China collapses.
@@elpoyo8062 they have almost 2 billion people they need to just start getting rid of old people 60+ die the rest live.
*shocked pooh*
First I was really happy that her grandfather fought the law so he could get a second grandchild.
Then she told that it was just because he wanted a grandson and now I'm devastated.
Dude her grandma was the one who said we abandoned if its a girl not the grandpa
The grandpa who have done the same thing.
Is she single/has no children??? Cuz grandpa aint deserve any!!
Didn't you hear what she said? It's all part of systematic indoctrination. Yeah, it was wrong of them to say they would throw away the baby if it was a girl, but when you take into account China's misogyny, and the tension of the 1 child policy, it becomes less one dimensional pure evil, and more human. I can't 100% say I would never do that, because I never lived like they did: I wasn't born in China, and Luckily, my mother and father always thought me about equality and my own value as a woman.
Damn same
"They who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. " - Voltaire
He must travel Asia.
People: Why do you not wanna be a part of china?
Hong Kong:
jack L do you not understand why this law is wrong, I’m glad they ended it in 2015. Millions of innocent kids were killed.
Mr. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis because we won’t, and overpopulation will kill us way faster than only having one child
Mr. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis China didn’t
Mr. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis Because this policy was made in the past?
Mr. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis it’s pretty far for China, considering it’s a government with only 70 years of history
I read this in an article, i mentioned it to my co-worker, and a customer happened to walk in and say "that cant be true, im originally from china, so i know thats not real." so i showed her the article from my phone, then she left, i saw her go on her own phone, and some time later she comes back into the store and tells me, it turns out the main reason her parents moved to Canada was to avoid the law.
I'm happy she didn't tune you out or start a fight with you. Instead she actually took the time to learn about it. Most people wouldn't, they'd cuss at you and leave ignorant.
@@Whoareyoupeople900 thats Canadians for you
Lmao my parents came from China to the US because- well, second child things.
@@lepotatopotato9418 same
@Zeke is my god I disagree. If all countries have a single government, there would be nowhere to go if the government starts doing bad things.
"The greater good".... When you hear those words, head for the bunker.
Also hide the checkbook if the government claims it will be "affordable"
Social Contract
@@jaydunbar7538 or worst, "free"
@@jimlovesgina I never saw one of these "contract"
@LUNAR BLOODDROP Lasgun*
"for the greater good". It's always "for the greater good" and people "just doing their job". This world is so evil and people refuse to stand up to evil
Imagine if a determined minority were to refuse to comply with tyranny, and swiftly spread their message of justice before dying for their cause. Sounds nice. Sigh.
didnt they try to stand up towards evil, and look what happened
@@marinamansfield5872 still better than doing nothing and accepting your fate
@@Notiravgsarah depends on the situation in my opinion, im simply pointing out that this person said this statement as if they didnt try to stand up towards evil
Well said but most folks just step in line very few are risk takers or brave
I am Chinese, luckily being the oldest I wasn't really affected by the one child policy. But my parent moved to America and give birth to my little brother. My mother once told me that if I was male, she wouldn't give birth to another child. So I asked her why or does she dislike having female baby. She answered with a "I don't know. Females would marry off to a male and leave the family. While the male stays with his parent. Having a boy means that there is more social security towards a family, and our last name can get passed down. It is just our tradition." I actually don't blame my mother for having these thought, because my grandmothers are also the same favoring male more than female. She been growing up with that kind of thought, but sometimes it really hurts me and I hate hearing my mother talking about these.
Same in India
When you explain things like this, it actually starts to make sense, from a cultural point of view, why do families prefer males versus females.
My family is also asian, and my grandpa always believed a woman should adopt the men's name when she married.
But one day I told him that no, I'm not changing my name and he was so conflicted.
Like, there was this internal battle of tradition versus the continuity of the family name (I'm the oldest granddaughter, and will probably be the first one to marry and get a kid and etc).
I think in order to change this issue with boys over girls, there needs to be another huge cultural change in china first regarding women first.
Well in the West is the other way around, at least that's what I noticed around me, the male leaves his home and starts his own family, has new responsibilities and burdens, it's often the daughters that have a soft heart and end up caring for their parents more.
@SANSKAR GUPTA gs0801cs181071 Oh, dude I don't know if it's in "most Asian countries" because I'm Indonesian and it isn't like that at all. We also don't have to adopt the male's last name (and it's considered weird to do so, since we don't have last names to begin with, except for a few tribes, if I recall). I don't think Southeast Asian countries have the same customs, so yeah, just a fyi. Do correct me if I'm wrong though.
I'm so sorry to hear what you've been through. You're special and nobody can change that.
The irony the guys weren’t sterilised. Just the woman.
Yeah because women have babies not the guys
@@BeanOnTheFlipside you do realize that to sterilize a man they do not cut off the “balls” right?
@@Mrs.Mensah0110 v i a se c t o m y
Vasectomy you mean?
@@BeanOnTheFlipside they snip the tube that sends sperm into the semen. In fact, a female sterilization is much more invasive. A man can heal from the procedure within 3 days and be back to work. Regardless I don’t believe anyone should be sterilized against their consent.
I have a Chinese friend who was abandoned as a child before being adopted by her Filipino parents. She told me she was abandoned because of her gender.
Chinese (or the Chinese living in China, anyways) have a 重男轻女 mindset. That is to say, they prefer males over females. The male holds a larger standing in society than the woman. For example, a man could be really horrible at his office job, and a woman might apply for his position. Even though her qualifications might be great, the office will always doubt if she's actually that good.
The good news is, that stereotype is rapidly changing as more people realize that women are the same human beings as men so the situation is getting better.
@@flagel552if Chinese don't like Daughter why the "H" he says to his Friends that I'm his White Daughter
When my Friend asking me if his my Father i said to them that he is my Mom's Husband but i only Call him Uncle not Daddy Lol
Someone’s child saying to their parents to not have more children… imagine how they grow up thinking themselves are unnecessary or a burden in the first place
I was adopted back in 2002, and was never interested in finding my birth family because I just thought why would I want to? They abandoned me and didn't want me simply because of misogynistic beliefs. And I accepted that. Although I knew the government was corrupt, I didn't know they did stuff like mentioned in the video. I was from a province that was mostly rural land and it makes me wonder why I was really put up for adoption. Maybe I was kidnapped or brought to human traffickers who sent me to the adoption center against my parent's wishes, or maybe my parents were forced to give me away because of their family. I'll never know but this video gave me a lot more depth on the situation than I originally thought. I'm just grateful that I'm alive and happy right now. I have a friend who was adopted as well and was found in a bush. It's awful.
You can do a DNA test, my father did one and it worked (he was adopted too.)
Unoriginal I actually did a dna test, I only found a couple of distant cousins of mine through it. I didn’t reach out or anything. But I’m planning on getting a couple different ones to see if I can find anything else
Morris, you are abandoned where ? In USA ?
Santi Om No in China when I was a baby
God bless. I was born in China too and I grew up there, luckily my parents are from Hong Kong and the law didn't apply to them, so I am blessed with a younger brother and a younger sister. I remember as a kid, my best friend saw me having so much fun with my siblings and once she cried to me, saying how she wished to have siblings...
My cousin used to be friends with this girl who was adopted from China. She was put in a trash can after she was born.
That's just horrible... I'm happy she's in a better place now than what she was.
What?!😨
UGLYASSHELL
Yeah.. she was the second child born so her parent knowing it was against the law literally threw her away. She’s in a much better place now and she says that she doesn’t have any memory of China, just her happy family in America.
@@ok-ts4bt oh wow, thats realy nice to hear!i wish her good luck in life!❤❤❤ and you too.bye😙
Sad
I am collateral of the one child policy. I was orphaned in a market at about 3 weeks old according to the papers the orphanage gave us.
I was lucky to be adopted by my American parents. They’re wonderful people who love me and have sacrificed so much for me.
Many people ask if I think about my birth parents, or want to go back. I don’t. My American parents are my true parents and I will never look back.
Absolutely! You are fortunate!
Oh, wow😯
Very glad you're alive, loved, and well!
May i ask, what is your political ideology in america...well if you're left leaning or consrvative..just curious
@@rishelschimmel7358 Fortunate Son indeed.
The long term population deficit would be showing up in large ways now. The fact that our aging population is the only reason that we have the current world population. Unfortunately, no one has seemed to grasp the national and international impact of this effectively. The next 40 years are going to be interesting.
Population deficit can onlybe a good and healthy thing in an overpopulated country. Let the old look after the old. They’ll pass away eventually. The younger generation must now have a good hard think how they want to live.
It's better that most of the population is old. When they die off, the young people will have a lot more space. The world doesn't actually need people living in 50x50 apartments right next to eachother. Why do people think less people is a bad thing? The only negative to it is that there are less people to fight stupid wars.
Look at the things you buy. Find everything that says it was made in China. Now understand a huge population of those workers are about to die of old age without a new generation to take their place. Manufacturing speeds might be fixing to slow down, our own economy may struggle through more of a import shortage, we'll have to wait and see.
Now. Men outnumber women by quite a bit. If men want to get married / become sexually active what are they going to do? I'm nervous about the implications this particular part here may have for young girls and the impact it might have on violent crime.
smh it doesn’t work like that AT ALL. If you have more old people than young, than those few young people have to work even harder to support both themselves AND the elderly who are on govt care. Trust me it is not a good thing to have an aging population.
People: are you pro-choice or pro-life?
Chinese government: how about no
When they are neither
The Chinese Government is Anti-life and Anti-choice
@BrightonExpQ the problem is is that they are forcefully aborting babies from family’s that want them. And this law has made chinas population severely unbalanced.
@BrightonExpQ they could have brought greater education to their people about contraceptives and birth control. But no. They decided to go nuclear and force people to have abortions or give their children away
@BrightonExpQ it’s not a small country. It’s just that China’s government doesn’t want too many people because they can’t control them all and sway them all to their communist and evil regime.
When I was 8 my aunt phoned my parents and said she gave birth to a a second daughter, and said she was not able to raise her due to bad financial conditions. Also the one-child policy was still in place at the time so she likely wasn’t able to pay the fine. I immediately told my mom I really wanted her as my sister, and my family adopted her. Fast forward to college, when my mom visited me she told me that she had lied to me before about that phone call from my aunt. My sister was not my aunt’s daughter at all. She was abandoned outside my grandparents’ doorstep after being born(probably because the culprit knew my grandparents might be kind enough to take her in, which indeed they did). I think my mom had lied to me to protect me from the brutal truth at the age of 8...I feel happy for my sister that she was incredibly lucky not only to survive but also have a family where she received love and much better resources than she ever would if she was raised in that small town where she was born. Female infanticide was incredibly popular during that time, I can only imagine the fates of many other girls who were not so lucky...
A sad story with a happy ending. Please allow me to ask: how was it that a family couldn't keep the girl but your parents could? Thanks
@@miriamllamas224 if you have another child you have to pay a fine, the government force sterilization because they know a lot of people can't pay it, it's likely a few thousand dollars and most people cannot afford that fine decades ago, so if you look at families with 40+ YO grown up children now it is almost a guarantee that they are more well off before
@Max St. Arlyn are you actually dumb
@@misslen575 I do t understand what paying a fine is going to do especially in this type of situation. If the law was put into effect due to making the country well off then before than what the hell was paying a fine going to do to solve that issue, besides the obvious of looking more appealing to just have an abortion to avoid the fine. But paying the fine done nothing to solve the issue to better the country, even if the family could pay, it still makes for an extra child in the world for the family to care for....unless they killed that child anyways even if the fine was paid (I’m confused if this is how it worked or not even if they did have to pay the fine) the only thing the fine does is makes the government richer
@@BeachMum PFFT I can't believe I need to explain this, it is to make the country well off of course, lets put it this way, my money is not the governments money right? I can take my money and migrate to another country anytime, but I want to stay and grow in China because the way I make money is in China, but I also want two kids, okay so I pay the fine to the government, now the government is more well off and I can take care of my children too! BUT WAIT!!! what if I'm poor and have nowhere to go, all I'm gonna make is poor kids to be fed by me and the government because I need the support, now the government needs to support my kids too! OH that's right I can't have two kids to help me with my farming because I'm poor and can't pay the fine, I'll just have a male then since I can't pay the fine, but I accidentally have another kid well what's gonna happen now? I'll tell you what's gonna happen, fined “$370 to $12, 800,” an amount many times the average annual income of many Chinese, If the couple is unable to pay the fine, they may lose their jobs, their land and livestock confiscated, their home destroyed, their children denied the rights and benefits of the state, like education, or their child taken away. The woman can also be forced to be sterilized, for all the world to see and as a warning, and if you hadn't noticed it's the same way everywhere, poor people have many kids because they are either uneducated and hopes having many will bring them fortune some way OR lack of contraceptive or the knowledge of proper contraception, it was basically the governments way of telling the poor to stop baby booming, after all what they were afraid the most is there's too many people and food scarcity(if there's money from fines they can have a bigger spending power duh), I hope that clears some things in your reasoning
As a Chinese girl, I'm very lucky that my parents were from the city where they could get a background from a minimum of education, if I was born in a poor rural area I could've been abandoned or I wouldn't have much choices from life than to become a housewife... I am very grateful that my parents didn't treat like I was worth "less than a boy" and that we moved to Canada when I was 4 and that I have the opportunities to pursue my dreams and live a life that I want to live.
@Max St. Arlyn your delusional or you have never known any mainland Chinese friends, this definitely happened and was the way China treated its own citizens especially the poor.
People diss and berate housewives too much. My mother is one, so what? You think she didn't contribute to society?
@Max St. Arlyn i lived in China for 13 years, in minority areas, and sorry you are wrong, the policy was enforced. yes minority groups were allowed a second child. yes some people circumvented the policy. but they were always punished and the younger siblings always had difficulty accessing education and public services
No one told you to bring your repressive culture with you and then refuse to integrate into the society that took you in, you walking stereotype.
In China's big city, situation is much better than countryside.
When I was younger I always wondered why I would meet more adopted Chinese girls rather than boys. I'm really curious as to how girls were safely adopted.
“Luckily the baby was a boy”
Well this was the problem. Preferences in gender. Not even the one child policy. That was also bad but the lack of worth they saw in girls is problematic even today.
True, Mao actually promoted equel rights because it would make the nation stronger...but the idea that girls are worthless were stuck in people's heads regardless.
The one child policy didn't cause this problem, the way people reacted to it revealed a big problem in their society though.
@@lilypond5158 oh boy Mao promoted equality.
@@AlexiusRedwood emmm, not saying he was a feminist or anything, but he urged women to get educated and start working because that way the country would be more productive.
There's even a famous quote, translated it means "Women hold up half of the sky"
It’s not that they think girls are worthless. It’s that only males get to pass down the family name. Culturally, when women get married they’re considered “marry away” and when a women marries your son, she’s “marrying into” your family. In China, sons live with their mother and daughters go with their mother in law. My mom loves me but she still see it in the way that I’m going to leave her even though I said just because I get married doesn’t mean I’m not her daughter anymore.
A lot of times girls get treated badly in Chinese families because they believe that this girl going to get married and won’t be our family anymore. So they don’t treat girls as family.
@@MissGenie0607 That's true, but the reason girls were married away were because in the old days, they weren't able to provide for the family, all you could gain from having a girl was having them marry into a more noble family therefore becoming a relation to them.
It's all just one big vicious cycle
This is why it's important for a population to be able to revolt against its' government.
This is why it's important to have a 2nd Amendment.
How? Are you going to provide us with weapons and defenses? Chinese military only serves the government not the people. Nobody want to die in order to do the impossible.
@@thatasiangirl0_039 if you die for your freedom you would die for your nation.But no one forces you,if you are good with this things governmant make it is fine.
"Freedom or death!"
-Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Same is the problem with India now a days.
@MsSunhappy they wasn't really revolting with arm weapons. They only had a peaceful protest and the gov shot them down. To really change a government you need armed forces of the people and the military to be on your side.
I was adopted from China, my parents left me in hopes someone would take me in. They left a letter on me of my birthdate and a plead for someone to take me. I fear that the reason they left was because I was the girl
I feel you but I was left with nothing so my real birthday is unknown. What year were you born in (if I may ask)?
2001
That’s just horrible. I’m glad your parents left you in a place where someone could find you so you could get adopted into a family. Some people would just leave their children in places that would be harder for people to find them. I hope you’re doing well! (Btw I was also born in 2001)
KH Kayla many mothers who actually managed to have a daughter were forced to drown them right there.
KH Kayla It’s actually believed that most of them drop the baby off somewhere where people can find them and are watching until someone picks the baby up.
"For the greater good."
It's amazing how often that is used for doing something that is really bad.
My favor part is Chinese government told their people you only need one child and you can depend on your government to retire when you are old and are unable to take care of yourself. Then few years ago, they told their people you can't depend on the government along to retire. They also made it illegal if the child does not take care of the parent :). What a great policy. Makes me laugh every time.
*I can see having a a HUMANE 3 child policy*
Americas haveing the reverse pyramid problem too for another reason of course but there arent enough young to take care of the old.
Gee wonder why God told Adam and Eve to e fruitful and multiply. Butt human thinks himself smarter and more intelligent. Ha. All it takes is some natural disaster or a plague to bring brink of extinctioning ourself. Man"s wisdom is foolishness to God said the holy books.
Man is short-shghted and only use only tiny inches of brain the Creator gave to him.
For every action there is tons of reaction. Mankind is stupid. Maybe they can seek out another planet to go f***up after theyre done here.
@@cgreen777 You do realize that while this policy had terrible consequences, there was a very real reason for its implementation, right? Namely, that if the population boom before the policy went on, the country would have collapsed under its own weight, they simply couldn't have fed that many people. In fact overpopulation in less developed segments of the world is a serious problem. In most advanced countries, families have less children: 1-2 being the norm. That's because having a lot of children is survival mechanic: if you have 6-7 children, at least 1-2 should reach adulthood. However, in first world countries modern medical care is available across the board, therefore child-mortality is so low it's negligible. Therefore you do not need to make women into baby-factories, since there's a very high likelyhood that your kids will survive, you don't need like a dozen as insurance policy. And since in first world countries you need more resources as well to keep your lifestyle after having kids, this also discourages having more kids. Now, enforcing this through law is still pretty bad and inhumane, but not having a lot of kids on its own isn't a bad thing at all. A natural disaster will hardly wipe us out at this point. Like the worst plague, in times where modern medicine did not exist, took out about 30% of Europe's entire population. Are Europeans extinct? No. If a cataclysmic event like a big meteor hitting us happens, sure, but at that point we are talking about the entire planet becoming a total wasteland and overwhelming majority of life being wiped out. Under those conditions it matters not if we have 7 billion people or 12 billion, all die anyway. Oh, and yes, men are smarter than gods, for one simple reason: we actually exist.
@@jessicacole8404 I bet you think socialism just hasn't been practiced properly yet. It's impossible to force reproductive practices humanely.
My mom went into hiding for 9 months in order to give birth to my second sister. She was discovered after she had given birth, and as punishment she had her registration stripped from her, as well as a massive fine. Without her registration, she was unable to own a car, own a home, have a bank account, and basically own anything under her name.
Wow, how did she make it?
Coming to America....now via Vaccine!!
@@kelly_out_and_about2670 not how vaccines work in any form. Please leave with your fake news.
@@conniewilliamson973 I think that you need to educate yourself on the history of eugenics in the United States. Buck vs Bell allowed for the forced sterilization of disabled women in this country, and it used forced vaccinations as a precedent.
My auntie hid for her second and third child.
China: "you can only have 1 child."
Woman: *has twins*
China: *surprised pikachus face*
one of the child would be taken away, very sad :(
@@thomyorke7622 No, it was a 1 birth system
Imagine the face if they were triplets!!!
Goofy From Scooby doo I heard that you could keep both children if they’re twins.
If I remember correctly you could have more children if: you had multiples, the children were born abroad, or you remarried and wanted a child with your new spouse.
I literally had a teacher tell me one time that people were just "fined" for having more than one kid. What an idiot. People don't realize that kind of attrocities that happen in places like this, so it is nice to have people speak up like this.
And now because there are so many men in China, alot of them have trouble finding wives particularly for those living in poorer rural areas. The women they look for tend to be more career oriented and have little interest staying home as wives.
Housewives isn’t a thing in China, only double-income households can afford the overpriced housing and living expense.
Well when parents only have one girl of course the girl will be career orientated. She'd want to look out for her own parents, not likely a husband can support 2 sets of parents on just his income.
@@yihengzhou2676 *aren't a thing
@@cakeisyummy5755 oh no it’s the grammar police
Also these me me me younger generations aren't not interested to have many kids, unlike previous generations. Good luck to restore the populations then
it goes deeper than just the policy. If every family just has one kid - a girl or a boy, then there wouldn't be girls being left in the market to die. The cultural desire to have a boy outweighing humanity has nothing to do with the policy, so take some personal responsibility.
Agreed, I don't believe that there's no sexism in this
Exactly plus the same thing is happening in india
Sure but the socialist communist fascists policies are really the most important thing to note here. Not saying well they should have complied with the government and not been getting pregnant is believing their propaganda
@@laurajackson1082 if you look at the economic and social circumstances China was in back then, you would find the policy itself or something similar to curb the population growth was probably something China needed back then to stop people from dying of starvation. It is how the policy was implemented and enforced, which intertwined with cultural preferences for boys, that led to this very situation the documentary is trying to demonstrate.
Mudra Gupta it’s dystopian and a crime against humanity
I'm an only child.
One 'good' thing One Child Policy did was making my generation of Chinese girls super strong feminists despite the society itself being historically extremely patriarchal, like the ones of Japan and Korea. Our parents knew we would be their only child, so they poured all their love and support on us. We were taught less gender stereotypes, and didn't have male siblings who would very likely receive more education resources and attention.
Rena Gu wow u actually tried to make the death of millions of babies sound logical ..... wake up , karma bitesback hard
@@anandpandey5509 everything has a benefit believe it or not. Dont get me wrong, its still genocide with law, but the comment is still telling a benefit even if its cruel. The commenter most likely dont even support the law and even saying its making the newer generation of Chinese wanting a change in rights and possible law. Wake up, dont be a "nice guy"
Edit: also learn wording, the original commenter literally said "good" as in something good in whats basically forced generation death of millions
That doesn't help anything
Tammiy Lonr it does. It helps China evolve in its values and culture. I’m not excusing the government or anything (women’s right to choose to have kids if they want to), but maybe it helped change the way the new generation thinks and how the older generations are impacted.
anand pandey they’re not justifying the one child policy, rather stating that something good came from it. this doesn’t mean the pros outweigh the cons by any means though. for example, many medical advancements came out of the holocaust, but this doesn’t mean they were worth all the death and torture.
"I think everyone parent would be heartbroken if their own child didn't want to know them"
Bro...they literally abandon them just cuz they're a girl. Ofc they don't wanna know their biological parents.
China's society is like the *inverse of far-left extreme liberal America!:*
-Extreme far-left liberal
America: *Hates men and everything masculine*
-China: *Actually likes females, but, they hate the concept of conceiving and raising a daughter over having a son*
@@MainMite06 They are hard to pin on a political map. They oppose homosexuality, support abortion, restrict ownership of weapons, and ban depicting men as weak in media. I think they should just count as "tyrannical."
@@MainMite06 No. China's society is like China's society. China became before America, not the other way around. These are ideas that have existed for literal thousands of years. And China doesn't like females. It's literally the opposite. That's the whole point.
@@forgottenrights351 😂 you really try to pin human behaviour in a chart good luck br
I have a cousin who was adopted. She was from Korea. Her parents didnt want her because she was a girl. Luckily she was able to make it to America, to a foster home. Another family was planning on adopting her first, but after finding out she had a physical disability (she couldn't use her legs and the muscles from her hips down were messed up) they didnt want her either. Fortunately, my aunt and Uncle adopted her, got her assistance and physical therapy. Now she only needs 1 leg brace when she over exerts herself.
lucky wee lassie from linda ins cotland
I’m sorry to hear that. I don’t think that is a cultural thing though or at least what it is in China.
Wow your aunt and uncle have huge heart and loving and caring person,, incredible 😍😍
My two cousins are adopted Chinese girls
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"Inhuman cruelty has been part of China since ancient times."
Brief study of history says that's true of everywhere, as a species we are very good at being very bad. Good thing for us today we have gotten much better at keeping the crazy contained.
Under the emperors the Chinese peasants were like European serfs, resources to be exploited for personal gain. Has anything changed under communist governance?
Suryanto Tan Keep telling yourself that. There’s a reason why the president of Zambia has said that he wants the Chinese to leave and the Europeans to come back. Even stupid cultural relativists, who think the most backwater of places are ‘wonderful’, know and openly talk about the fact that China is an amoral shit hole.
@dylan alvarez in first world countries yes they've done a good job at it. It can't be perfect thought there will always be evil people in the world.
@Suryanto Tan communism killed so many people
If children, under the instruction of the government, are singing about what you should do, you should not do that thing.
Sound advice
They could be singing about washing your hands and practicing general hygiene.
@@mers3481 Plenty of countries (especially in rural areas), there are community centers and resources that teach children who bring that knowledge to their families and communities. Think about the topic of female genital mutilation. Children might be educated on the dangers before the rest of the adults, who have preconceived ideas of what should be done.
True
This made me burst in to tears. The level of disgust…
I got “lucky” and was given up to a good orphanage. Born a female with a facial deformity, I could have been shunned and caused great harm to my birth parents.
When sentence "you'll end up alone" become reality for those 30 milions men.
@@sys9208 yeah, incels jerking off. I guess one Indian incel sympathizes with another Chinese incel
Their fault
[DATA EXPUNGED] Of course they’re Indian. 💀 Female infanticide is huge issue over there too.
@@katrina374 ugh I've read. What kind of humans would do something so horrific? AND call themselves men after that??? Damn. It's a shame to be called men alongside these bastards
They resort to trafficking women from villages in countries like Cambodia now (look it up)
Why wouldn't Hong Kong want to be a part of such a wonderful country?
The strict rules around it will cause hong kong have a hard time, im not too sure.
The sarcasm is strong here.
Wow such sarcasm
*Disgusting
@Aizette It's more like the Absolute Totalitarian Autocracy of Jimpling
Her mom says the policy was "necessary" but then she herself turns around and has two kids. Like, really? -.-
Maybe they were accidents
a Movie called What Happened to Monday is a about a mother who dies after giving birth to SEVEN identical twins where each family are allowed to have only one child and leaves the 7 twins to be raised by their grandfather who named them after the weekends. He managed to keep them alive by giving them strict rules such as you're not allowed to leave the house or sleep outside a secret room if the day of the week doesn't match your name (Friday gets to leave the house in Friday).
China would be a perfect country for this movie to take place in.
I watched it with my mom on Netflix it’s really good
septuplets. Yeah, really good film
Yeah i watched it. Its good but sad
I seen it, it’s a really good movie
Monday fucked them over tho.. lol
During the 1 Child policy My great grandma was a doctor and was forced to abort babies and she is tramatized to this day.😢 She couldent even quit her job.
That is sad...
Why am I crying because of a comment :'(
I'm sorry she was forced to murder. God will heal her.
@@JCC_1975 The issue here isn't the abortions itself. It was that it was forced upon these women and forced upon the doctors who had to go against their patient's wishes, completely disregarding bodily autonomy.
@@sjin9297 I know that.
but they never said that you couldn't have a third child
Oh shit
Damn, you just discovered a loophole
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Oooofffff
BIG BRAIN
Some of the biggest atrocities in history were committed by people "Just following orders."
One of my best friends growing up was adopted from china by a British family. She had been abandoned by a well, they presumed with was because she was a girl and families wanted boys. She was lucky, as she was found and adopted by a lovely family while she was a baby, so has no bad memories. She's a doctor now.
That's amazing! She really fought back the odds, I hope that she might maybe find her parents one day, but she luckily has made a family
@@KaitlynBurtonISaGOD She has always been brought up to be educated about her country. Her adopted parents have taken her to China many times growing up. But i dont think she has any interest in finding her birth parents.
My family adopted a girl from china almost 15 years ago and I'm incredibly proud to call her my sister and I love her very much. She was adopted when she was older so she remembers being in the orphanage although she never wants to talk about it. She has completely become Americanized. Doesn't speak chinese at all although the obsession with rice and noodles has remained.
Your bri ish?
@@colocolopolosolo3602 Yep
I’m Chinese I’m in a US now or else I won’t be typing this...so since I was a first child and a girl with is deemed worthless in China I was almost aborted as a baby...but my dad still kept me which made me very happy ☺️
I'm also very glad you were kept. I hope you are having a good life here in america 💝
I suppose it depends with regions? I am firstborn during that whole policy and nobody in my family was disappointed that I was a girl since they actually wanted a girl, and I remember in my Chinese kindergarten, there was double as much girls as boys.
MŸSTICAŁ BŁØSSOM aww 💖
No? There are more girls than boys
What a true father you have! ☺️ America needs to step up their game with more good fathers!
I talked to my Chinese friend about this once and she said her parents generation were called the grieving generation because so many families had one child who died in an accident or illness and the parents were too old/force steralised and so couldn't have any more children
Hmmm i know a family in that very situation.
Tragic ..
wow this just destroyed me
Thank you Nanfu Wang for sharing your story. I am really sorry to hear about all that pain. Thanks for being brave and exposing something which is wrong and awful.
ive met chinese women that were adopted from china. all of them had that wound wondering why their parents left them. was awful to hear eatch time
What a coincidence, now what happens is the father leaves everyone in the US because of the woman, and men are the ones opressed with "patriarchy"....
Damn...
Imagine getting monitored of your period but then you have an abnormal cycle 👁️👄👁
*Ha! Fooled ya!*
Or when you have PCOS/PCOD or any severe mental disorder which affects your physical health 🤐
Imagine when Chinese women found out what feminism was and how Americans took it and destroyed it and changed it to eco tampons
Man, my cycle is so irregular that I would be in trouble by age 12
@@24POWERS I love tampons.
I just remembered this book I read back in middle school where in the future, families were limited to two children. People having a third child would have to hide them, never letting society know about them. At the end the 3rd children all gathered in front of Washington DC to protest where they were basically slaughtered. Anyone know the name of the book. Can’t remember the name.
Edit: Among the Hidden.
I remember reading the book series in Grade 6, would highly recommend.
Imma search for it, thank you
I had to read that too. Holy crap.
Children of Eden by Joe Graceffa (yes, the TH-camr) is more or less the same thing.
People can only have one child. The second is hidden. As a result, they don’t have a surgery to apply a permanent opaque white “contact lens” to protect people’s eyes from ultraviolet radiation from global warming, and have colorful eyes which makes them stand out.
I think, you mean Margaret Peterson Haddix and her Shadow Children series. I like them very much because it was so different from other books. At a young age I read maybe six books of the serie. I look for it and there are seven books. :) Have fun with this books.
You know it's messed up when human traffickers sound like heroes
The effects of one child policy on the child are bad. This isn’t just like having no brothers or sisters. This is no aunties, no uncles, no cousins. Just two parents and 4 grand parents and a great grand parent or 2 if you’re lucky. They are your only family. Imagine being 50 and being the only member of your family left, besides one child. No wonder China commits suicide. I want 3 children not one. Yes it’ll be 3 times harder. But when they’re older and I am gone they’ll have each other.
true my mom was the only child (we’re not from china) but still it’s so lonely to see her without any close relative such as sisters or brothers :”
Its not rly that bad not having siblings but yeah this policy is garbage...
I hope you why they enabled this policy
@@Ultra289 like I said. Not having siblings is one thing.
This is literally having no family besides your parents.
@@etocadet i grew up without close grandparents or cousins, tbh I don’t care for them as much as I do for my friends. My friends ARE my family.
I was one of the last products of this law. I was found at the door of the orphanage at age one in 2006. My now parents adopted me.
Were u born in a rural area?
I’m also one of the products of the law but one in the 90’s was when I was adopted. I feel your pain, girl. Though we have different experiences, we ought to stick together.
Oh dear. It still happened until 2006? :(
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Wow ur one year older then me-
This is so different from my parent's view on daughters. My parents are hispanic and when their three kids all turned out to be girls they were ecstatic because they said that in their country girls are the ones who look after their elderly parents while the sons leave their parents to focus on their own families (not all of them ofc)
My dad always said he wanted only girls.
When my mom was pregnant with me, everyone would have said she would've had a boy.
In my family, both sides, women and men always got first a girl then a boy.
My parents already had a girl. My father continued to say 'no she will be a girl'. My parents always preferred girls, I don't really know why though.
So, when they found my gender, which was when my mom gave birth to me, he was ecstatic.
He still says I am his clone, because I took more from him.
I today asked him though why, and he told me he didn't want a boy because he didn't want a boy to turn like my uncle XD, what I think he meant is that he didn't like having one because he wouldn't like their behaver, because as know girls mature before boys.
To this day my mother was the first to break such spell (having a girl and then a boy) xD
Yeah there’s a saying that when a son marries you lose a son, when a daughter marries you gain a son.
Yeah, that's true. Some latino countries (if not all) think that daughters will take care of their parents while sons go take care of their own families. Pretty stupid too. Both should take care of both responsibilities.
@@orangejuice393 I get what you mean and I agree but I strongly agree that both men and women shouldn’t feel obligated to take care of their parents. As a matter of fact, It should be normalized more. I know that family is really important to our culture but parents need to stop stressing their kids out on that shit. Children will grow and have other priorities. I’m not saying to straight up abandon them, but maybe not have them be dependent on you for the rest of their lives. Thankfully my Mexican parents understand this but I’m not too sure for the rest of my family :/
@jailene yes that’s how ppl used to think in Pakistan also, but now a lot of ppl have also realized that women take care of their parents and men just take care of their own families.... hahah suck it parents who want only sons and then don’t even get loved by them. You deserve it!
Taiwan at the background just eating Braised Pork and Rice be like:"Suck it Mainland"
When the kid you consider bratty has had a good point for as long as since you've wronged him/her.
Taiwan is what China should be, and could've been if not for CCP. I really hope things get better.
@@SoggycereaI ye tbh
@Albedo yeah I'm just refering China as Mainland because why the fuck not, Taiwan is obviously a Country