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The One Child Policy is the public birth control policy implemented by the People's Republic of China from 1979 to 2015.

Intended to avoid the overpopulation of the country, it manifests itself primarily by the penalization of parents of more than one child, but also by the realization of abortions and sterilizations by force. Relaxed for peasant families in the 1980s, in 2013 it introduced a new exception for couples where one of the members is himself an only child. This law made many parents want this only child to be a boy. China now sets the limit at two children, and has banned gender-selective abortion since 2015.

The most populous country in the world faces an insufficient number of women. The universal ratio of births to boys to girls is around 105 boys for 100 girls. However, for several decades in China, this "sex ratio" has sometimes exceeded 120 boys for 100 girls.

One of the consequences of this numerical imbalance between boys and girls is the difficulty for men to find a wife. An investigation was carried out into the trafficking of women from Burma, sold to Chinese men.

In the states of Kachin and Shan, located in northern Burma, on the border with China, recurrent conflicts have intensified, displacing more than 100,000 people. The traffickers target vulnerable women and girls with the prospect of jobs in China and the means to get there. They are then sold for between $ 3,000 and $ 13,000 to Chinese families facing difficulties in finding wives for their sons.

This law changed mentalities in both directions. First of all, by preferring to have a son rather than a daughter, the parents thought that we could "do without women" because they are too expensive. But making this selection for decades made it clear that the absence of the woman, her “extinction” is going to be much more problematic. Mentalities take a different turn, and families reconsider selecting sons. However, if before we didn't want daughters because of the cost, now we hope for a girl so that she can give birth. This suggests that the role of the woman is only to give birth and this puts additional pressure on the condition of women in China.