A little bit of me, a little bit of a cause...

So i haven't blogged since friday. This is partly because i have been exhausted, and partly because I couldn't decide what i wanted to discuss. Yess it is true I am that sad that i got caught up and couldn't decide what i wanted people to hear.

I guess i'm glad for the most part that i have a break this week which will give me a chance to have time for me. Yes i do have things planned, but at least its things i want to do :D

So on saturday night i watched an interesting documentary, actually it was quite horrific. For thos of you who don't know, there is a child- control population policy in place in China. This means that each family can only have one child, due to the already high- density living conditions.

Fair enough, this is taking away civil and humanitarian rights etc, but all this aside, what is not realised is that in China, it is extremely important for families to have male children. In the eyes of the chinese, they are the bread winners. They are the ones that carry the family line. If families have girls, they marry out of the family and thus the line is discontinued.

Not so much of a big deal right? Wrong. This is horrible, because due to many Chinese families in China having these deeply- rooted views, thousands of baby girls are being abandoned in orphanages, being killed by their own families or aborted as soon as families learn their sex.

This is not oly horrific and totally wrong, but is only the start of a scandal that is under the convers. In orphanages all over China, majority of the children are baby girls. But they are not taken care of because of these outdated views.

There are rooms, nicknamed the "Dying Rooms" in which baby girls are left in to die, once they are deemed "unwell". This means that they are just left in a room, not fed or looked after, until they pass away and another child discovers them, informing the nurses; at which point they dispose of the body.

There are also hundreds of toddlers tied into four-to-a-seat potty chairs, which they sit in day after day, can only rock back and forth as they hang suspended over a chair to dispose of their bodily fluids. This is only the start of the horrific conditions.

I know that not much can be done, but awareness is key.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_Uq3z7KOjM

Please watch the link, and watch all four parts.

Thanks for your time.