02/08/2013, 00.00
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Zhejiang: mother abandons her second child to avoid one child law fines

by Paul Wong
The incident occurred in Wenzhou, where a few days ago a child - who exceeded the quota of one child – was crushed to death by the car of the Party Secretary. Population control law most hated by the Chinese.

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."

 

 

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