It's a Girl! Page #5

They have no future in China.

If you want to have citizenship

you need about 200,000

RMB ($31,000 USD).

First, this money is something

that we don't have.

Second, it's not worth it.

In my own family,

my dad really hoped for a son,

because we have three

daughters.

His expectation brought

me the same idea,

that it would be a really

good thing to have a boy.

If I have a boy, people will

treat me to a meal;

if I have a girl I will treat them.

This means you either make

money or lose money.

We are worried about

policies, money,

where should we have the baby,

meaning where can we go

and have the baby safely

so that the baby would not

be affected by the policies.

We need to be secretive.

We sometimes will have to

hide during my pregnancy.

Things like this are

making me stressed.

The Chinese Communist

Government has declared,

or even boasted,

that over the past 30

years of One-Child Policy

they have prevented over 400

million lives in China.

That's greater than the entire

population of the United States.

They also reported that there

are 13 million abortions a year.

That is about 35,000 a day

and almost 1,500 an hour.

Many of these abortions

are forced abortions,

up to the 9th month

of pregnancy.

According to the World

Health Organization,

500 women a day kill

themselves in China

and countless more attempt it.

China has the highest

female suicide rate

of any country in the world.

Could this epidemic of

female suicide in China

be related to forced abortion,

forced sterilization,

and female infanticide?

How does a woman feel

about herself as a woman

if she has killed her daughter

just because she's a girl?

How does that make her feel

about herself?

How does that make her feel

about her own right to live,

to draw breath on this earth?

Right now, we're on the cusp of

an explosion in the sex ratio

amongst the sexually mature

population age groups.

So Chinese marriage markets

are on the verge of collapse.

Today in China there

are around

37 million more males

than females living.

This is often called

bare branches.

That means these men will

never find wives inside China.

This serious gendercide has

caused sex trafficking,

prostitution market,

and child bride kidnapping.

These bare branches are

a growing problem.

Each year, 1.1 million more boys

are born than girls in China.

And currently there are 37

million more men than women.

That means there are 37 million

fewer women for men to marry.

As finding a woman to marry

becomes more and more

difficult for men,

child trafficking has

increased dramatically.

Girls are stolen or

purchased by families

so they can be secured as

future brides for their sons.

My child was playing right

outside of the door.

I realized she was

missing by 5:
30

and I left to look

for her at 5:
40.

I didn't realize she

was missing,

because in this place no one

has ever been missing before.

When it turned dark,

around 8:
00,

I thought for sure

she was missing.

She was very little at the time;

she was only two and a half.

Our radio in the village broadcast

the news of our child.

"Whichever family that has the child,

please take her back home. "

Still there's nothing.

At that time I realized that someone

had kidnapped my child for sure.

My spirit was totally collapsed.

I was sitting by the

road yelling and crying,

where is my child, who

took my child away?

They searched the

surrounding villages,

handing out fliers with their

daughter's picture.

For months there was no

sign of her,

and the longer she was gone,

the more her parents worried.

I saw the picture of my child,

I was wondering if she

was cold or wet.

During the day, we went

out to look for our child.

At night, we couldn't sleep.

We looked and looked for seven

months and seven days.

We did everything we could.

Then someone in another village

said she had seen a child

looking like the little girl

living in a nearby home.

The parents went

with the police

to the home the caller

had reported.

Inside, they found their daughter,

healthy and unharmed.

The police arrested the residents

who had kidnapped her.

When I found my child,

I realized that my life

had changed completely.

After she came back she never

played by the door anymore.

We tell her to go play by the door,

she said,

"No, I am afraid the bad

people would come. "

The couple is believed to

have stolen the little girl

to provide a future

bride for their son.

It's estimated that there

are approximately

70,000 children every year that

are stolen away from their parents

and trafficked to other parents,

who have not been able

to have a second child

through the birth process,

so they want to traffic a

child into their families.

In our place, a lot of people

have lost girls.

I have two girls.

I don't believe in

son preference.

This is my own child.

How can I abandon her just

because she is a girl?

That's impossible,

completely impossible.

After my child was lost, I swore

that I would never give up

until I found my child.

In our area, all the missing

children are girls.

Most families want brides

for their sons,

but few families want

daughters for themselves.

Because of this, hundreds of

thousands of baby girls

are orphaned or abandoned

in China each year.

That day, I was going to the

Lontou Street to buy chickens.

I went walking along the river.

My son told me that

the water had risen.

I found some wooden

boxes along the river.

I picked one up and left.

I didn't notice till on the way

back that there was a baby

wrapped in some rugged

cloth in the box.

I wondered immediately,

is this baby alive or dead.

I decided not to buy chickens any more.

I need to take a look at this baby.

I opened the box to see if

the baby was still alive.

I thought if the baby was dead,

forget it, I would just throw it away.

I told my husband what happened.

He was sleeping, but hearing I

brought back an abandoned baby,

he jumped up in anger and

told me I can't take the baby.

Doctors cut the baby's umbilical

cord and washed her off.

She looked pretty small

and she was a newborn

because she still had her

uncut umbilical cord.

She was wrapped and put in

a box.

I asked the security guard;

he didn't want to take it either.

He said just throw the

baby into the trashcan.

I scolded him that he was

picked up from a trashcan.

He said how can I

work if I take the baby.

They asked me who wanted to

take this baby.

I said, I picked this baby

up, I would raise her.

I am the kind of person who

takes all kinds of responsibilities.

When I see lost chickens,

I bring them home, too.

I thought I will raise her

up, that's it,

I won't give her to anyone

else, not even the police!

If they come and take the baby

I will kill myself in front of them.

When my mom first brought

Meihui home,

I did not think about

adopting her, yet.

So, my mom took care of

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