One Child Nation

When being exposed to the actions, sacrifices, and ratifications of the persons interviewed from Nanfu’s village, one cannot help but judge their decisions reflecting one’s own culture.  I agreed with the journalist that China’s propaganda was highly infiltrated into the people, and these people created their roles based on ignorance.  They were literally brained washed that their country needed this policy.  But, you could also sense their sadness when they spoke that they had no choice.  Whether they liked it or not, they had to comply, especially the women.  This is where I understood why Nanfu’s mother and aunt found themselves going against their beliefs.  As with my own mother after hearing her own story of regulations imposed first by her father and then my father, she had no choice but to deter her own dreams.  This gave me a greater understanding for these women but did not excuse them for what they did, especially when the woman helped the uncle leave his daughter out to die.  The only one who seemed to want to eliminate her guilt was the midwife.  I could not even relate or imagine how she felt after assisting with so many abortions only that she needed to make her wrongs into rights.