Hong Kong
(AsiaNews) - A woman in Wenzhou (Zhejiang) has "abandoned" her child
(her second child) to adopt it later, hoping in this way to avoid paying fines
for violating the one-child policy.
The news
appeared today in Qianjiang
Wanbao.
The
girl's mother, whose name was Chen, gave birth to the little child last
November 14. She
was then given to a relative (aunt), who told police she found her abandoned at
the door of her house, wrapped in a red cloth, with a few dresses and a
symbolic date of birth, October 1, 2012 (anniversary of the People's Republic
of China).
The
police became suspicious due to the fact that Chen then sought to adopt the
child, doing everything possible to prevent anyone else from adopting her. A
DNA test confirmed that Chen is the biological mother of the child.
In
conclusion, the woman was sentenced to five days in prison and a fine of 200
yuan. She
was waived detention because she is a mother who needs to breastfeed the baby of
less than one year of age. In
recent days, in the same province, there were
demonstrations of thousands of people against this law and government
representatives who recklessly or deliberately, ran over a child, who was also
in excess of the quota allowed by the one-child law.
The
one-child law has always been unwelcome by the Chinese: it is a betrayal of
traditional culture and is often carried out with violence: beatings,
abduction, expropriation, fines, forced abortions and sterilizations. According
to the government it has prevented the birth of 400 million children and
guaranteed the economic success of China. But
the negative effects are beginning to emerge: the dramatic aging of the
population, lack of labor force; imbalance in the ratio between males and
females. The
Chinese, especially the farmers, prefer sons and constrained by the law, often
decide to abort their daughters.
Many
Chinese experts have called on the government to cancel or amend this law (to
enable couples to have at least two children). But
last month, the Ministry for Population Control reiterated that this law will
remain "for a long time."