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China's Lost Girls VVD007
$19.95
National Geographic Ultimate Explorer host Lisa Ling travels to China to join American families as they greet their new Chinese daughters and examines the complex issues surrounding the country's one-child policy. In the film, Ling examines the consequences of China's two-decade-old, one-child policy, as it is commonly called. To curb the country's exploding population, China limits most families to one child, or in certain circumstances, two children. Due to cultural, social and economic factors, traditional preference leans toward boys, so girls are often hidden, aborted, or abandoned. As a result, tens of thousands of girls end up in orphanages across China. Today, more than one quarter of all babies adopted from abroad by American families come from China
