Words and Pictures

For many years, China has had a one-child policy. That policy combined with the historical preference for boys, has resulted in an imbalance of men to women in China with men outnumbering women with numbers around 117 men for every 100 women.

When we lived in China, people would often tell us there were “too many people”. My response was always, “who are you going to get rid of?” I never got a satisfactory answer.

Here a photograph of a newborn baby girl at a maternity hospital in Beijing.