After conducting sting operations since last spring, Shanghai police have detained 47 suspects and 21 babies in a crackdown on child trafficking. In China there is a large black market where young babies are abducted or bought from poor families and sold to wealthy couples and other girls and women are sold as brides. Although China is a third world country, I wish the people would have more morals than this. It is appalling that people would sell their child to a complete stranger and into an unknown world. I realize that people in China hope to have a boy to continue their family, so girls are disposable because of the one child law. However, any moral person would not be able to sell his/her baby. It is unreasonable to blame the sale of a child on an unjust law. An excuse is not acceptable in this horrible practice.
As for the selling of the babies, hearing these stories is not supportive for the adoption process in China. Couples who are desperate for a baby may not do the research to find out where the baby comes from. Unknowingly, couples are supporting the theft and sale of children by adopting from unreliable adoption agencies. To combat this practice, people need to start doing the research. Even if it is painful not to get the child, people should not adopt from unreliable agencies. Also people should look to other countries for adoption. If there is no market for these children, the trafficking of children would end.
The work that police are doing in this area is impressive. To this day, Chinese police have rescued 2,008 kidnapped children and solved 1,717 cases. In rural areas, they also traffic young boys so families can purchase their legacies. As painful as it is, families in China need to stop going to these means to have a boy and create a legacy. I am a strong believer in fate and if a family is not meant to have a boy, they will not be given a boy. People need to learn to be happy with the family they were given, instead of wishing for the family they do not have. Personally, my family has two girls and my dads brother has two girls. While it is disappointing that our family name is in its last generation, it is our destiny to end the family name. If my parents had done anything else, it would have ruined the synergy that our family was destined for. Being happy with what you have is a hard concept because there are factors surrounding us that are pressuring. Seeing other families and how they function makes many people wish they had that extra child, extra sibling or family structure. In reality, we need to embrace the family we are given and move on. We cannot control these external factors, the only thing we can control is our own self. Time should be spent on making our own self the best person we can be, not fantasizing about the impossible.
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