There Are Entire Towns Full Of Single Men In China—Here’s Why
Women are creation. Without them, civilization can’t continue, let alone thrive. Yet the Chinese government enforced a one-child policy for decades, and the culture widely favored sons over daughters, thus accepting the abortion, abandonment, and murder of baby girls. Now, they’re reaping what they’ve sown.
Without giving it much thought, it’s easy to blame the prejudice against daughters on the Chinese government’s one-child policy, which was enacted in 1979 in an attempt to control the population and ensure a better quality of life for Chinese citizens. If couples were allowed only one child, while abhorrent, it would stand to reason they would want a son to carry on the family name and his father’s bloodline. Yet, China has a history of female infanticide spanning at least 2,000 years, with the extreme bias toward sons largely being shaped by the teachings of Confucius (551–479 B.C.).