One-child policy a surprising boon for China girls

One-child policy a surprising boon for China girls | Asian Correspondent: Since 1979, China’s family planning rules have barred nearly all urban families from having a second child in a bid to stem population growth. With no male heir competing for resources, parents have spent more on their daughters’ education and well-being, a groundbreaking shift after centuries of discrimination.

. . . Crediting the one-child policy with improving the lives of women is jarring, given its history and how it's harmed women in other ways.

Editor: A boon? At what cost? The benefit is hardly universal. Here's another view:

The paucity of marriageable females has diminished, not enhanced, women’s status: bride buying, with little or no consent, abounds. . . . [G]irls [are] abducted in their early teens and forced to have sex with 17 men a day for three months in order to initiate them into prostitution. LifeSiteNews

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