Fatherless children in China face legal limitations
Apr 9th, 2008 by Holly Fox
With fines for having more than one child, parental pressure to marry and a culture with little stigma for abortion, the issue of single motherhood has mostly been absent from China’s public forum. Now a single journalist is blogging to her unborn child in Beijing, and the comments left on her site both hint at change underfoot and emphasize the difficulty of raising a child alone in China. As some comments point out, and this New York Times article describes, the blogger’s child may face difficulty getting a residency permit or registering for school without a father.
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