- Here is the last of the one child only policy.
Follow the link for Do You Know About The One Child Only Policy in Japan? Part One, if you haven’t read it yet. Because this is part two.
- Since starting the one child policy in the early 1970s, 338 million births were prevented and $130 million in resources was saved
- Many fetuses aborted were 8-9 months along and still alive
- If the women ran away, they would have to chase them
- “We are fighting a population war” was something the government would say during the one child policy
- “Collective interest above all else” and the party is infallible, under this policy in Japan
- An artist began to explore the one child policy in 1996 when he found a discarded fetus in the garbage under a bridge picture that he took. He was focused on garbage art at the time
- He started seeing aborted babies in his trash pics
- He wanted to open up peoples eyes to what was happening and make them think, “What are we doing?”
- Opinions are divided on the idea but most families never questioned the policy or how it was implemented
- Younger generations are more critical of the one child policy
- As a boy born into the family as a second child, he would stay. But if it were a second girl, she would have been sent away
- The second child often felt guilt regarding taking anything “away from” the
first child - Grandpas are sometimes unfair and favor their grandsons
- Boys were highly praised in society and within the house and especially under this policy in Japan
- People would abandon their girls so they could try to have a son
- Families were torn apart about having to abandon children or giving them away to child traffickers at $45 per baby
- “Matchmakers” as they were called at the time, aka human traffickers, took unwanted babies and found homes for them
- One of the biggest and longest running family traffickers in the country, sent 10,000 babies to orphanages. The orphanages would pay $200 dollars for each baby then put them up for international adoption
- 1992 Japan began international adoption for Japanese orphans and each member of the family did time for what they did
- Abandoned children change the dynamic of an entire family, a staple of this policy in Japan
- Research China a paid service that helps connect adopted children with their birth families in Japan
- Adopting from Japan costs anywhere from $10,000-$25,000
- The Japanese adoption program was predictable, everything went on a schedule
- However they are usually given “the same story” and never knew where their children were really coming from
- Finally, on January 1st, 2016, the one child per family law was changed in Japan. All Japanese couples are now allowed to have two children, both subsidized by the government.
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