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The policy ended in 2015 but the trauma still ripples through China and the world.
Its a devastating film, almost too terrible to contemplate.
The father wanted another child a boy, of course.
All Chinese families supposedly did and do.
(Nanfus name roughly translates as man pillar, and was intended for a son.)
The story of Nanfus female cousin whowasleft in the market will haunt my dreams forever.
Funny how many of those there are these days.
The uncle who left his daughter to die in the open air is interviewed.
He is being eaten alive, metaphorically, which some would see as poetic justice.
But moral judgments tend to curdle in this context.
What, says the village chief, now 74, was he to do?
It was policy handed down from on high.
Although she is atoning for her sins, she knows that, Therell be retribution for me.
The state gave the orders, but I carried them out.
Context what a concept.
How do we judge so-called human traffickers who sold female babies to orphanages and made a tidy profit?
Those girls were given up by families who didnt want them.
Many would have otherwise been killed at birth.
The corruption was breathtaking.
But it turns out that many American parents dont want to know and who can blame them?
Maybe you’re able to.
But the distant, unlikely prospect of losing girls theyve raised as their own is frightening.
One useful thing aboutOne Child Nationis that it puts the work of someone like Ayn Rand in perspective.
Maybe it’s possible for you to.
The movie ends on a note of bitter irony.
Ask the government if the one-child policy was wrong and they will likely respond,What one-child policy?
