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Parents in China have for years faced an agonizing prospect: having their child abducted and sold into a trafficking ring. The problem is remarkably common and intractable, with tens of thousands of children going missing in the country every year. The industry that has sprung up around child trafficking—involving the police, doctors, nurses, and hospitals—explains why the problem has reached …
By Fan Yiying In China, fake documents obtained from the black market can be used to legitimize trafficked children. Government official who for years sold fake birth certificates has surrendered himself to the authorities, Sixth Tone’s sister publication The Paper reported on Thursday. Falsified documents can be used to legitimize trafficked children and babies born out of wedlock or in …
by Owen Churchill and Li You ‘Waiting for Me’ helps desperate families track down missing relatives, provided they are willing to relive trauma on stage. Song Xianzhong is talking through the photos of his grandchildren that hang above the bed. “This one is my granddaughter. Everyone says she looked like a boy when she was little,” he laughs. Then the …
A new book debunks the myth that Chinese parents favored sons. BY KATHRYN JOYCE June 1, 2016 In 2011, when I was researching a book on international adoption, I met a man who made the incredible claim that he had founded a benevolent child-trafficking ring in China, whisking baby girls away from near-certain infanticide to the safety of North American …
By Frank Fang | March 6, 2016. Even as a child Song Yangzhi somehow felt that he was adopted, even though his parents never told him directly. When he was little, he could recite two poems that his parents never taught him, and other kids called him “orphan boy.” It turns out that Song’s instincts were right: he was kidnapped …
