Imagine going out to dinner with a group of new friends for some drinks, and waking up in an entirely new country. Lately in places such as Vietnam, young teenage girls will be tricked into meeting up with online pals and smuggled across the Chinese border. This increasing trend in smuggling young girls into China has been due to the one-child policy as well as the preference for sons. These stigmas have altered the gender ratio to mostly males. Additionally, it costs a Chinese man a large sum of money to get married to a Chinese woman - he must pay for the wedding or banquet as well as a new home for the family. Police and activists against trafficking both agree that the best prevention is awareness. While the police have been able to save girls at the border, many are still smuggled into China and have to learn to fend for themselves. Since the Chinese police sometimes have a harder time tracking down the young women, the women tend to find ways to escape - even leaving behind their babies. It is EXTREMELY important to pay attention to one's surroundings - since both women in the article commented on the fact that neither believed this could happen to them.
Haley Kuck
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/17/asia/vietnamese-girls-child-brides-china/index.html
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