China’s one-child policy and the millions of ‘missing girls’
Guo Rui in Guangzhou, South China Morning Post Published Aug 08, 2021 08:06 AM PHT Like many women in China at the time, Song Chunxia got an abortion in the 1990s when an ultrasound revealed she was having a girl. The strict one-child policy imposed in 1979 meant that for some couples like Song and her husband there was a decision to be made - and their preference was to have a boy. Song, who is now 46 and works as a cleaner in Guangzhou, has been thinking about the daughter she never had...
