HBO special tonight: “China’s Stolen Children”
Featured as a 2008 Human Rights Watch Film Festival Official Selection and a 2008 British Academy of Film and Television Arts award winner for Best Current Affairs program, “China’s Stolen Children,” will be shown tonight on HBO as part of its Documentary Film Series.
Scheduled for 9p EST tonight with an 85 minute run time. Narrated by Ben Kingsley. Check full schedule of all showings here. Watch video clip here. Read the synopsis here. Here’s a synopsis of the synopsis…
China is being swept by an epidemic of child kidnapping with as many as 70,000 children a year being snatched and sold on the black market.
This alarming trend is a direct result of China’s one-child policy, initiated in 1979 to curb the country’s exploding population.
Shot undercover in China, this film explores the epidemic through the eyes of a couple desperately searching for their stolen son, a detective committed to tracking down stolen children, a boy who was abducted and later rescued 800 miles from his home, and a trafficker willing to broker a deal to sell a young couple’s only child.
[HT: Joseph Farah via Robert King]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
I guess if I wasn’t boycotting HBO it might be worth watching it.
I think I will check that out tonight. Because I’m FINALLY GETTING CABLE! Right on.
Who’s abducting them? Are they going to sell them to rich American’s who want to “save” a baby girl from China?
Way Ling, a mother-to-be who, at 19, is too young to be legally married, and who now faces a dilemma: whether to pay exorbitant fines to keep a baby born without identity or rights, or sell it through a broker like Wang Li.
So, I guess the baby sellers serve a purpose which is not all bad.. Though we might be shocked that people sell their kids, (why?- since people kill them all the time) some will even be selling them to keep them alive.
The article says elsewhere that the consequences of China’s one child policy are “unforeseen”. (Only for the leftists.)
As for saving girls…… mostly boys are being sold as social security policies. Saving the girls by selling is actual “saving”, if they’re not sold for slavery. Remember that baby girl in China would be forced to abort her kids, down the road, as well as suffering higher risk of kidnapping and rape by the excess of males in that country.
We still have our extremist faction in the U.S. who believe that killing the babies is preferable to any kind of adoption, with or without money exchange.
And finally in the U.S. there is some legal kidnapping of kids by social services, and the lawyers get most of the money here, rather than child brokers. With that and our abortion policies, including the fight against parental notifications, and cover up of child molesters, China’s story is just a bit more of the same that we have here.
Who’s abducting them? Are they going to sell them to rich American’s who want to “save” a baby girl from China?
Posted by: Jess at July 14, 2008 11:46 AM
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Perhpas the children are being stollen by the infertile from the segment of the population allowed to have more than one child.
Jess: They are being stolen to provide future wives for families who have a boy (only child). Sometimes these girls are shared amongst brothers or cousins as a wife.
They are also sold to families who cannot have a child or as slaves.
Patricia,
How about you get in on the question of evil on the “New poll/Old poll” thread?
gotta go to a under 15 soccer game – will check in later Mr. Bambino
I was very moved by this documentary and would like to send Chen jie’s family or the man helping them some financial support.
Unfortunately, the kidnapped children are only a fraction of the million children that have gone missing from the rosters since the 1979 one-child policy was put into affect. Currently, 1.7 million girls alone are missing EACH YEAER due to gendercide (singling girls out for death) and abandonment. Many live “illegally” with no papers, subjecting them to a life where no schooling or medical care are available, and later, no possibility of a job or housing…. The only option available is sexual slavery even in the confines of unsuitable “marriages.”
The selling of babies to loving families is only one of the many uses for unwanted or “out of quota” babies. What the documentary has failed to show is the selling of children to prostitution rings. In southeast Asia, many believe that having sex with a child purifies those infected with sexual diseases, including HIV… Another form of selling is for organ harvesting, and more appalling–to the handful showcase orphanages designated for foreign adoptions.
More about it can be learned from my presentation at the U.N. in March 2007. Please check my website at http://www.TaliaCarner.com
Talia Carner, author, CHINA DOLL