Title China's hidden children : abandonment, adoption, and the human costs of the one-child policy / Kay Ann Johnson.

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	HV887.C6 J66 2016	Available	---

Description	xiii, 218 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction: somebody's children -- Relinquishing daughters: from customary adoption to abandonment -- Adopting daughters and hiding out-of-plan children -- From "unwanted abandoned girls" to "stolen children": the circulation of out-of-plan children in the 2000s -- An emerging "traffic in children" -- Conclusion: the hidden human costs of the one-child policy.
Subject	Abandoned children -- China.
	Abandoned children.
	China.
	Girls -- Civil rights -- China.
	Girls.
	Civil rights.
	Intercountry adoption -- China.
	Intercountry adoption.
	Child trafficking -- China.
	Child trafficking.
	China -- Population policy -- Social aspects.
	Population policy.
	Social aspects.
	Family size -- Government policy -- Social aspects -- China.
	Family size -- Government policy.
	Family size.
	Girls.
ISBN	022635251X (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	9780226352510 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	9780226352657 (e-book)