Sarah Childs- Millions of Missing Girls Found in China

Summary: China, the most populated country isssues a one-child policy long ago to help with overpopulation. This one- child policy has resulted in almost 60 million "missing girls" that are undocumented and hiding from the government. But a new study shows that around 25 million of these girls aren't actually missing, but were unreported at birth, then appeared on government censuses at a later stage in their lives. "Most people are using a demographic explanation to say that abortion or infanticide are the reasons they don't show up in the census and that they don't exist," said John Kennedy, study co-author and professor at Kansas University. "But we find there is a political explanation." When China first forced the one-child policy in 1979, the government expected local family planning officials to enforce it. However, he proved that in villages, where officials were also members of the community, the law was very hard to enforce. They'd let them go unreported to maintain good relations with the villagers. By the mid-1980s, the Chinese government relaxed one child policy in rural areas, allowing for  villagers to have a second child if it was a girl.  Yet in the 1990s, Kennedy discovered that lax policy enforcement had allowed families in rural areas to bypass the law. Now, China is drastically lacking women for men to marry, so this is to encourage women to register and feel like citizens again.

Analysis: This article was published by Emiko Jozuka from CNN on December 1, 2016. The author uses a third person point of view to convey an unbiased article. Additionally, I had absolutely no preview knowledge of this topic, so this article made me realize how important our international relations are with other countries. If we could have maintained good relations withChina, we would be able to guide them through this difficult time. This article was written for any citizen of the US or the lost women of China to encourage them to register themselves and help solve China's next issue. China's one-child policy could synthesize directly to the controversial topic of abortion in our politics today. The question of abortion being legal or enirelt cruel is Avery hard decision to make, and this is the same issue that was used in China when they had too many people. They killed their children with abortion, or left them unregistered where they are left without any rights. 

http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/01/asia/china-missing-girls/index.html