‘We had no choice’: China’s one-child policy and the millions of ‘missing girls’

Source: China – South China Morning PostLike many women in China at the time, Song Chunxia got an abortion in the 1990s when an ultrasound revealed she was having a girl.The strict one-child policy imposed in 1979 meant that for some couples like Song and her husband there was a decision to be made – and their preference was to have a boy.Song, who is now 46 and works as a cleaner in Guangzhou, has been thinking about the daughter she never had after the government said couples could now have three children.“If [birth] controls were…Read More

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