i used to hear a lot of smiliar stories regarding baby girls in china as well. since china have the law discouraging having more than one child per couple, male children are more highly regarded because they can pass on the family name and lineage. hence some couples will abandon their daughters at an orphanage or worse, leave their baby girls to die in a river or a baby girl would somehow wind up dead so that they can try again for another child. it's so sad. |