. A novel about an American woman who travels to China to adopt an orphan of the one-child policy, only to find herself a fugitive when the Chinese government informs her that she has been given "the wrong baby." ^ This tendency to favour girls in high parity births to couples who had already borne sons was also noted by Coale, who suggested as well that once a couple had achieved its goal for the number of males, it was also much more likely to engage in "stopping behavior", i.e., to stop having more children. See Coale, Ansley J. (1996). "Five Decades of Missing Females in China". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 140 (4): 421–450. doi : 10.2307/2061752 . JSTOR 987286 . PMID 7828766 . ^ a b (Chinese) "China's Sex Ratio at Birth: From Doubts About its Existence to Looking for a Solution" . Population Research (1). 2006. Archived from the original on 5 April 2008. "If we do pay more attention to the problem of the rising sex ratio, still the focus is on the rights of males such as the right to marry, and ignores women's rights such as the right to survive, the right to reproduce, the right to health, etc. This approach inflicts even more harm on women...Therefore, how a researcher approaches the question of the sex ratio at birth – from what point for view, considering whose rights – is critical. This depends upon the values of the researcher, the humanistic orientation of