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With extraordinary access to devastated parents desperately searching for their stolen son; a man who brokers the deals and has sold his own offspring; and prospective parents grappling with giving up their soon-to-be-born daughter through lack of options, we are brought face to face with the crisis that such a stringent government policy has created among China's poorest people.
- Programme: Dispatches
- Episode: China's Stolen Children
- Channel: Channel 4
- Broadcast year: 2007
- Journalism
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