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Overview Details Customer Reviews National Geographic Ultimate Explorer host Lisa Ling examines the consequences of China's two-decades-old ''one-child policy,'' designed to curb the country's exploding population. 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...

Release Date: 2005-03-01, Rating: NR (Not Rated)

In the 1980s as China's population continued to rise at an alarming rate in a politically and economically precarious environment the nation's leaders mandated a 'one child policy ' stipulating that married couples could only legally have a single offspring. In China cultural and social traditions make boys more desirable than girls to most families leading to a tragic phenomenon of thousands of female babies being either abandoned or put up for adoption by parents hoping for a male. National Geographic...

In this emotional documentary, Lisa Ling accompanies American families as they travel to China to meet their adopted daughters for the first time. In addition to these personal snapshots, the program offers a broader discourse about the social and economic factors in China which have led to the abandonment of tens of thousands of baby girls. Ling elucidates the roots and possible repercussions of this growing gender gap. USA---2004