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It’s a scary fact in China, that although you could be an adult male, you might have parents who bought you. A baby boy can be bought for $15,000 and could be a kidnapped child. A recent sting yielded 89 babies and 355 arrests and a question… can they even trace where each baby came from? “the Chinese government says that 10,000 children are kidnapped each year, but some experts suggest the number may be as high as 70,000.” (NY Times - Abduction)
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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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