I would not like to give ideas for some reality show, but "baby is looking for a wife" It could be the title of the ads that begin to proliferate in China. That in this country men have a harder time finding a woman with whom to share their lives is something known. Nor is it new that there are agreed marriages to try to keep the offspring offspring.
What is new is that In China, babies are found to be partners since, even, before birth, through different Internet pages.
Although the gender imbalance in the country has been declining in recent years (and here it has to do, among other factors, the Government's fight against prenatal exams to determine the sex of the baby and selective abortions), currently in China for every 117 boys, 100 girls are born.
There is still a "shortage of women", so some parents want to get ahead of the problem and enroll their offspring in contact websites, to find a partner.
In a report, the Global Times newspaper cites the case of several mothers who send photos of their children in the hope of finding their partner and it is the case that some responses come from pregnant women who have not yet given birth and who have not even given birth. they know the baby's gender, but "just in case" ...
Websites with the message "Say no to lonely babies" are multiplying in China and mothers who resort to them are already counted by thousands, according to the newspaper. One of the pages cited is www.babytree.com initially dedicated to young pregnant women who opened their contacts section last December. Among the announcements messages of the section, we find the one of “We are going to celebrate a marriage of babies”.
Since the possible real marriage is still far away (now what is done are "online marriages"), there are other ways of doing business before, and the websites offer services such as preparing dinners, shopping and trips for children and their respective parents. So that political families get to know each other ...
In short, the future of this issue is not too promising, as it is estimated that in 2020 there will be 24 million more men than women of marriageable age in China, which makes the problem, originally demographic, a matter of great importance Social.
Hopefully this complicated theme can change trend, because the bizarre theme of "baby looking for a wife" in contact websites accessed by his parents is another reflection of the serious problem of the one-child policy and selective abortions in China.
