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I buy babies, don't you? before/after I read an article in the newspaper yesterday about the trade in female chinese babies. From what the article says, its a booming business. Daughters, according to the article and a chinese proverb, are like watering a neighbor's feild, as daughters invariably join the husband's family. So, they've been selling their children. Their daughters. A bus was pulled over with about one hundred drugged female babies in nylon mesh bags. Truly a disgusting thought. One of the babies died, the rest were "unharmed". Apparently, the babies would be bought by rural families in some provinces to til the fields, clean the house, and marry their son when the time was right, and apparently, they felt capable of doing their own housework. Selling your daughter. Goddam, man. Poor bonding skills. What was also said was that until the communist revolution, before 1949, many chinese women were not given names until adulthood. That's clearly a cultutal thing that could be misunderstood, perhaps. Perhaps they were simply known as 'daughter' of 'daughter of so-and-so'. Or perhaps they were, and still are, thought of as chattel. This article bummed me.
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