国家地理:China's Lost Girls 被抛弃的女孩 -9

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After meeting the foster¹ moms, we all walk to the actual orphanage² where Marissa was brought as a baby. We're told there are about 500 children living at this orphanage. There are tens of thousands of children just like them across China. All around us are abandoned children who have never been adopted. Some of them may well have been here when Marissa was. Many of them could spend their entire childhood here.

It's hard to imagine what Marissa is feeling, I mean, being here, at this orphanage, you know, all of these kids were abandoned like she was, but she has a different kind of life now. And I just wonder what she's thinking, I mean, she looks like she's sort of a little discombobulated and with good reason.
I know.
Thank god. She's gonna walk out of here in a few minutes. You know, I mean, she could be still here...
I mean there are so many of them, so many kids...

When it's finally time to go, saying goodbye is tough for everyone.
Thank you so much. It's OK. Marissa. Byebye

The Chinese government realizes that the growing gender³ imbalance is a problem and they are trying to be proactive. So they've set up these little clinics on the edges of the countryside to try and do everything from educating people about family planning issues and actually try and convince the people that girls are equal to boys.

Inside the clinic, we see local residents being educated about family planning and getting medical care. In one room, we meet Peng Hongmei who is pregnant⁴ and having an ultrasound. She can only check the health of her baby, using ultrasound to find out the gender is illegal in China.
Do you know she's having a boy or a girl?
That I definitely don't know. The ultrasound didn't even show it. Even if the ultrasound could show the gender, I wouldn't tell her.

Is it not allowable for, for mothers to find out the gender of the child?
Definitely not. Why? Because in the village, they prefer boy babies. If she had a girl and I told her, she would have an abortion⁵.
One of the things these doctors do is they jump in this van, and they go and talk to people in the villages about the birth control and family planning.

They take us to a village in Senyu in Central China, where doctors go door to door, telling villagers that girls are productive⁶ members of society too.
It's part of a big campaign. There are even signs like these in many villages which say that...