It is estimated that there are between 50,000 and 100,000 children in Chinese orphanages. 95% of these are girls, many discarded by government buildings or hospitals. Why girls? China greatly discourages population growth and heavily taxes couples for having more than one child. So, if the family wants to carry on its lineage and cannot afford more than one child, the girl will have to go.
So she is picked up and placed in a local orphanage. What's her fate? Illness? Death? Adoption? Human trafficking? Prostitution? You get the picture.
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