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China’s ‘Missing’ Girls

Imagine a family abandoning a three-year-old girl by a river because a boy has just been born.
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China’s ‘Missing’ Girls
Children hold hands while walking along a street in the ancient city of Pingyao, in northern China's Shanxi province. China's skewed sex ratio has been one consequence of its one-child policy, as many couples, particularly in rural areas, prefer a boy and Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images
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Infanticide and abandonment are not on the radar screen

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Children hold hands while walking along a street in the ancient city of Pingyao, in northern China's Shanxi province. China's skewed sex ratio has been one consequence of its one-child policy, as many couples, particularly in rural areas, prefer a boy and (Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images)
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