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It’s like a scene from the movie, Children of Men but in Japan. In a 1000 years, children are running on empty, there’s very few born. Studies by academics from Sendai say: “Japanese researchers have now warned of a doomsday scenario if it carries on this way with the last child to be born there in 3011 and the Japanese people potentially disappearing a few generations later.” There’s plenty of reasons, from costs and perhaps changing priorities. (MSNBC – Japan Kids)  
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C’mon. Chinese selling off babies for adoption. The ring was busted and 17 babies were sold in the last month! Farmers do get a sum of nearly $8000 for a boy, which is more than they make in a year. It probably happens all over the world, but the pressure of having baby boys can be that high in Chinese society that even with the population so huge, there’s still a need for baby trafficking. (USA Today – Trafficking)
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