Has anyone seen "Chinas Stolen Children"?

Question

Its an HBO documentary?

I just watched it tonight, and it was an incredible eye opener for me... insain. I recommend it to everyone!

http://www.hbo.com/docs/docuseries/chinasstolenchildren/index.html

Answer 1

I just watched a very little bit, when they were rescuing the girl with her mother. I just know from that how sad the rest will be!!

Answer 2

It's so sad.  How crazy that the government has the ability to help (the one father that went to Beijing to protest got his son back), but would rather just suppress any waves that get created by these grieving parents.

Unbelievable.  

Answer 3

Money is the root of all evil.  I wonder how many children living abroad are really not abandoned orphans but were sold.  

If its going on within the country what makes Paps think its not happening in their case.

Adoption appears to have become very similar to slavery and kidnapping.

Answer 4

Yes it was so sad.

It was shocking how parents negotiated their children.

The broker even sold his own child, the younger one, because he ad invested more in the older one.

Also I noticed that people wanted to pay less for newborns because they require more work.

I cried the who thing through.

Answer 5

Yes.  It really opened my eyes to exactly how rampant human trafficking is in China.  If a family can get money from giving up a child they can't keep...why on Earth wouldn't they?  I wonder if any of the children being offered for adoption at this point were NOT sold from their original families.  And it sounds to me like selling the children to other Chinese families is more lucrative than selling to an orphanage (I don't know what the exchange rate is, but I remember someone saying the orphanage fee is $5000, and the families in the video were selling their children for upwards of $10,000).  I wonder if maybe that's messing with the "availability" of children in China to be adopted overseas, and maybe that's why the wait times have been extended.  It's also very, very interesting that the Chinese government completely denies that the one child law could possibly have anything to do with human trafficking.  

Answer 6

"Every mother assumes she will be with her child forever but I may not be with her for very long.  Soon she will be growing up in another family.  As a mother that doesn't feel right."  <---I've heard about the child laws over there but never realized how it really affects the lives of families over there...

You can watch the entire documentary on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR_xS0XsC...

Answer 7

Hi Gershom,

I haven't had a chance to see it, but I wanted to pass along the trailer for people interested. Thanks for the post. So extremely sad and frustrating.

http://www.truevisiontv.com/movies/china...

Answer 8

It's sad but it happens every where, even here in the US. There are scary women out there who'd kill to have a baby.

Answer 9

yea i seen it last week. we are really lucky about having children here in the u.s