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While that definitely happened, the thankful reality is that many families raised their daughters unofficially.
Really? That's the most wholesome thing I read about China
The demographic charts suggest otherwise.
China, and maybe some other Asian countries have a household registration ( hukou 户口) system.
Only people born into the system get to exist for things like schools, national insurance, etc.
So any unofficially born second children (or hidden first born daughters) didn't get to legally count under this.
Also; children born out of marriage don't exist for state schools or benefits, either.
Where your hukou is limits your options for access to housing, claims on social security and health insurance, and the like. Mostly if you were born into a very rural area your only pathway to legally having a place to live and for your children to go to school in another part of the country is via university graduation.
There are pushes to change this system, and smaller cities are removing their requirements for non-rural hukou. But Beijing, Shanghai, and other cities you have probably heard of are yet to do this.
https://www.newsweek.com/china-hiding-population-secret-1926834
They killed so many girls the population fell more than expected.
Did you read that article, or just post the first news link you found with a headline that agreed with you?
Everyone agrees to not accept China's figures, but no one can find anywhere near such a big gulf. And you'd think that if they could, more US and Taiwanese sources would be reporting on it, wouldn't they?
My point was more that some people did the right thing, not that it's enough to eliminate a statistical slump.
Some people of the time would think the Chinese were heartless people to do what they did, and some quietly raised their other children, that's all.
And if even that isn't true, so be it, as I could have fallen for propaganda and cannot locate the original source, but here is another showing that some people didn't just fall in line.