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The Cause And Effects Of Human Trafficking In China

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Human Trafficking in China

The one child rule has been instituted in China. It leaves families only allowed to have one child or they have to have a major increase in taxes and get into trouble. This leaves families wanting a son over a daughter so the family name would be carried on. Girls are often aborted, abandoned, and just not wanted a majority of the time leaving a scarcity of them. For example according to a health policy report, “The shortage of women may have increased mental health problems and socially disruptive behavior among men and has left some men unable to marry and have a family” (The Effect of China's One-Child Family Policy after 25 Years). Because of this human trafficking has increased. Men are doing whatever they can to find women and get close to them without truly knowing what is right and wrong, what is normal for them to do. People see this happening and realise some men will do whatever to get close to women and human trafficking is the result of that. For instance, according to a health policy report, “The scarcity of females has resulted in kidnapping and trafficking of women for marriage and increased numbers of commercial sex workers” (The Effect of China's One-Child Family Policy after 25 Years). The reason for this policy is to help with overpopulation but it has just caused other issues that aren’t being dealt with. Even though the one child policy is a resolution for over-population, it causes a waterfall effect of consequences. Not

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