Chinese hiding three million babies a year
As many as three million Chinese babies are hidden by their parents every year
in order to get around the country’s one-child policy, a researcher has
discovered.
By Malcolm Moore in Xiamen
Published: 11:59PM BST 30 May 2010
"I am the biggest offender against the one-child policy in China!"
laughed Fu Yang, a wiry and energetic 47-year-old man, as he fidgeted and
poured tea. "I had seven daughters in just ten years."
Mr Fu and his rather more reserved wife are among the millions of Chinese
parents who risk threats, fines and even imprisonment in order to defy the
country's one-child policy. The couple, who now live a prosperous life in a
small village outside the southern city of Xiamen, have had to flee across
three provinces and hide their children with friends in the past.
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