Beijing - Chinese parents are being offered cash
rewards to give their newborn children the
mother's last name, a report said on Friday, in an
unusual attempt to address the traditional
preference for sons.
Women who marry in China keep their own
surnames, but their children almost invariably
take the father's name and ensure its
continuation into the next generation.
Now officials in Changfeng county in the eastern
province of Anhui are giving $162 to couples who
take part in the "surname reform" plan, the
Jianghuai Morning Post reported.
They hope the move will help to gradually change
the common perception that giving birth to a son
is preferable to having a daughter, it said, and
nearly 30 couples have already volunteered.
China suffers from a huge gender imbalance as a
result of sex-selective abortions and the strict
family-planning law known as the one-child policy.
Female infanticide and the abandoning of baby
girls have also been reported.
In most countries, males slightly outnumber
females, with between 103 and 107 boys born for
every 100 girls, but China had nearly 118 male
births for every 100 females in 2012.
In Changfeng county, that ratio has reached
nearly 130 boys for every 100 girls, according to
the Jianghuai Morning Post.
"Our goal is to promote an idea, for families to
give their newborn child the surname of whoever
they want", Gong Cunbing, deputy director of the
county population and family planning
committee, told the paper.
China's has tens of millions more men than
women, experts say, one of the worst distortions
in the world.
Many of those men are now unable to find
Chinese brides, a phenomenon that has become
a key driver of trafficking of women from
Southeast Asia to China, according to campaign
groups.

I think i prefer sons too.

I think overpopulation dey worry them

Ghen ghen made in china women don dey scarce oh...9ja take note

Descartes: I think overpopulation dey worry them

exactly my thought, just imagine some generation to come what would be the gender ratio with 130 male to 100 female..

Omo e go be war!

EbolaCure: exactly my thought, just imagine some generation to come what would be the gender ratio with 130 male to 100 female..

Omo e go be war!

I think they need Ebola for reducing their population, na joke o o

Descartes:
I think they need Ebola for reducing their population, na joke o o

bad guy..lolz


Oya come carry am go, na joke ooom no vex..

EbolaCure: bad guy..lolz


Oya come carry am go, na joke ooom no vex..