Custom may explain dumping of dead babies in China
 

Custom may explain dumping of dead babies in China
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By ANITA CHANG, Associated Press Writer – 2 hrs 15 mins ago

BEIJING – Rural traditions of abandoning dead infants because they're considered bad luck may have played a role in the case of 21 babies' bodies found along a river in eastern China, apparently dumped by hospital mortuary workers.
The little bodies — at least one stuffed in a yellow bag marked "medical waste" — were found floating and strewn along the bank of a river on the outskirts of Jining city in Shandong province last weekend.
Police detained two mortuary workers at a hospital who were paid by the babies' families to dispose of the bodies.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100331/...na_dead_babies

I don't see why the hospital couldn't have done a burial or even cremation since the families didn't want the bodies. Very sad indeed.

I wasn't surprised. Some of my adult Chinese students have told me that when rivers near their houses are drained, it's common to find dozens of babies' bodies. They find them in open fields too.

One woman told me that she got lost in the hospital where her mother was, opened the wrong door, and walked into a room where there were tubs of newly dead fetuses who'd been aborted pretty late in the process. I get nauseated thinking about it.

and lemme guess...most of them were female :rolleyes:

I'm guessing China still has the 'One Child per family' law and since boys are still the preferred sex..

But if it is only boys, who are the boys going to procreate with?

One of the problems they (China) are having now is the unbalanced number of females to males. Let me find some numbers/more info & I'll post it here. I remember seeing a story on CNN or one of the news stations about this entire situation.

Ok, quick info, I found the Wiki information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-chi...rate_disparity

and this article from TIME
http://www.time.com/time/world/artic...912861,00.html