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Before you start on China for giving up girls to be adopted, you need to understand a few things: the boys are responsible for taking care of the elderly parents. So if you have a daughter and she gets married off, her husband's family has no obligation to take care of you when you are elderly and are unable to fend for yourself. This is much more than carrying on the family name. It is about survival. They don’t have Social Security benefits in China you know .... LOL.
Stories of girls left out in the field to die in the country are sadly true. The more fortunate babies were left at orphanages or other places where they were safe until they were found. My daughter was left at an old men's housing facility which was next door to the orphanage in Yangchun City. My wife and I are grateful we were allowed to adopt from China because we couldn't have children of our own even after many failed attempts of IVF. I got kind of tired of people telling me "how noble it was of me to adopt from China" - I informed them of the circumstances and educated them. People take it for granted they can easily have children - this is not true!
The video is pretty gross. Asians view everything as food and are amused by things like that. My father use to tell me stories of famine when he was a boy in China and how he had heard cases of human cannibalism. Dad's family was so poor they couldn’t afford rice so they ate yams - needless to say he got sick of eating them. My Mom use to buy yams when she came to the states and had to hide them. My father would go nuts when he found them in the house and immediately threw them in the trash! In the past 25 yrs or so, my father eats yams/sweet potatoes now. The elderly men were known to take food off of people’s plates – something my mother wasn’t too fond of when she was a girl, but she had to tolerate.
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