TV and Movies

[this is my nic]

Prime is showing "One Child Nation" which shows life in China when couples were allowed to have only one child.  One of the midwives performed abortions, sterilizations, as well as helping to deliver babies.  Her story is so very sad.  This is well worth watching! 

[Big Joanie]

Watched it ... yes it was worth watching .....

[MoonieBaby]

@this is my nic - 

I could barely watch it, I SOBBED, I mean like hard crying through most of it and could not get through it...I have too hard a time with cruelties; to the frail, the old, the young and animals...I can't get stories or images of such out of my head or my heart.

[this is my nic]

@MoonieBaby 

Yes, I understand how you feel.   This is ugly truth and no matter how sad, and horrible, it should be watched by everyone.  The babies who were murdered and those left on the roadside to be taken, but weren't, cry out to us to acknowledge them.  

[Anonymous032819]

Anybody read the reviews on it (on Amazon)?

controversial, so say the least.

[Suzeecat]

I watched in horror, it was truly gut-wrenching.  The propaganda, brainwashing, murder of baby girls.  Thirty years, then, OH!  Now it's a good thing to have TWO children!  Unbelievable, except there are actual photos and film documentation.

[patbz]

The first time I went to China was in 1981 (they had a one child policy then) and I remember a proud father insisting that I photograph his twin baby boys (it was summer and they had naked bottoms).  Evidently "multiples" counter as one child!

[this is my nic]

@patbz 

The issue of twins was addressed in the documentary and, I believe, they could just keep one.  Perhaps since the twins you saw were boys, they were allowed. 

[bathina]

No government should be able to control the reproductive organs of any woman anywhere. Mandating a woman only have one or two children is as bad as forcing her to bear them.

This movie would bother me too much.