Jiangsu’s Abandoned Girls | Tencent
Han Meng—Tencent “Living” Channel
The strictly enforced family planning policies in the late 1970s and 1980s in Jiangsu province led many families to abandon their daughters, in the hope of having a son. Now, many of these daughters are mothers themselves. Photographer Han Meng visited and photographed 15 women, some of whom grew up not knowing who their birth parents were, and some who didn’t even know they were adopted. Many have searched for their birth parents, but only a few have found them.
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The strictly enforced family planning policies in the late 1970s and 1980s in Jiangsu province led many families to abandon their daughters, in the hope of having a son. Now, many of these daughters are mothers themselves. Photographer Han Meng visited and photographed 15 women, some of whom grew up not knowing who their birth parents were, and some who didn’t even know they were adopted. Many have searched for their birth parents, but only a few have found them.