China's hidden children
Subtitle: abandonment, adoption, and the human costs of the one-child policy
By: Kay Ann Johnson
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780226352510
Subjects: Government policy; Social aspects; Civil rights; Abandoned children; Girls; Family size; Child trafficking; Intercountry adoption; Population policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-208) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: somebody's children; title: Relinquishing daughters: from customary adoption to abandonment; title: Adopting daughters and hiding out-of-plan children; title: From "unwanted abandoned girls" to "stolen children": the circulation of out-of-plan children in the 2000s; title: An emerging "traffic in children"; title: Conclusion: the hidden human costs of the one-child policy.