China Has 44 Million Missing Women

Yihan Xu

Outline for explain &engage speech

03/15/2013

China has 44 million missing women

I. Introduction

A. As everyone knows, China is the world’s most populous country, however, because of the increasing number of the missing women, the growth rate of population is decreasing each year.

B. Among all the missing women, girls at our age take a big proportion.

C. China has a large amount of missing women, which has important social consequences and economic consequences down the line.

D. According to the World Bank’s 2012 World Development report, there are 44 million missing women in China, which not only break the gender balance but also affect the social stability in China as well as the world.

E. Furthermore, because China represents a full 20% of the world’s population, the serious social issue can also change the world.

II. China is the world’s second large population country with more than 1.3 billion people, however, there are 44 million missing women in China.

A. According to the World Bank’s 2012 World Department report, there are four million women “missing” from the world’s population each year, more than one million of those are missing from China.

1. According to Washington times, January 27, 2010, “In China, an entire nation of women is missing because they were aborted before they were born, “said Reggie Littlejohn, founder of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, a nonprofit anti-sex slavery group. (Cheryl Wetzstein, 2010)

2. “Lost as aborted female fetuses, as babies who die or are killed at birth, as children without access to proper health care or as women dying in childbirth.” (Carolynne Wheeler, 2011)

B. China’s one-child policy rejects girls.

1. “ The death of girls is now more extreme in the PRC than anywhere else in the World.” (Laurel Bossen, 2005)

2. Because of these ancient beliefs, China’s one-child policy forces couples to choose between “their future retirement and the lives of their daughters”...