Chinese Baby Trafficking

In eastern China, police have broken up a baby trafficking ring that is responsible for the trade of more than sixty infants. The children were taken from the Yunnan province in southwest China and most were sold to people in Shandong, a province in eastern China. The trade in babies thrives in China. Many of the children trafficked are girls because families are limited to having one child in urban areas and couples sometimes sacrifice female children in order to have a son. Laws designed to control reproduction by China's communist government result in the abandonment of helpless children rather than population control.