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China’s One-Child Policy has included forced abortion, forced sterilization, heavy fines and intimidation. But what isn’t often mentioned is that if Family Planning Officials fail on these fronts, any children who survive to be born and raised are denied hukou<\/em>, or household registration. These children are essentially treated as non-citizens of China. Reggie Littlejohn, President of Women\u2019s Rights Without Frontiers<\/a>, wrote in a press release today:<\/p>\n

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Children without hukou will have no birth certificate, no official existence. They will not be eligible for health care or education. They cannot get a passport or driver’s license.\u00a0 They will not be able\u00a0officially to marry or work. As far as the Chinese government is concerned, these children do not exist.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Littlejohn notes\u00a0that despite China’s shift to a “Two-Child Policy,” the practice of hukou will continue. “This denial of hukou is extremely distressing to parents, who may feel that their beloved children have no future,” she writes.<\/p>\n

As an example, Littlejohn reports\u00a0that one man, after his fourth child\u00a0was denied hukou due to his inability to pay a heavy fine to the Chinese government, “stabbed two Family Planning Officials to death and wounded four others<\/a> in 2013.” The man was recently\u00a0executed<\/a>. Littlejohn says\u00a0the fines imposed on families “can be up to ten times a person’s annual salary.”<\/p>\n

Littlejohn also writes, “In another tragic incident last year, a Chinese father of four\u00a0committed suicide<\/a>\u00a0because his children were denied hukou.”\u00a0The distress caused by the denial of hukou, she says, “devastates not only women, but also men and children.”<\/p>\n

Children who are born without a birth permit “will have no birth certificate, no official existence.\u00a0 They will not be eligible for health care or education. \u00a0They cannot get a passport or driver’s license.\u00a0 They will not be able\u00a0officially to marry or work.”<\/p>\n

Denying Chinese children their basic human rights through the denial of hukou, says Littlejohn, “is a form of official child abuse. It must end.”<\/p>\n

Watch a BBC video from 2014<\/a> on the impact of the One-Child Policy and the denial of hukou on children in China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

China’s One-Child Policy has included forced abortion, forced sterilization, heavy fines and intimidation. But what isn’t often mentioned is that if Family Planning Officials fail on these fronts, any children who survive to be born and raised are denied hukou, or household registration. These children are essentially treated as non-citizens of China. Reggie Littlejohn, President […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":71995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[6256,422,6254,531,6255,5957,4853],"yoast_head":"\nChina denies rights to children born without permits, devastates families<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Chinese children born without birth permits are denied hukou (household registration), denying them education & employment. 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