- 276 orphanages
– or 40,100?
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Estimated total in 2002 – 50,000 “Currently
there are 50,000 children in Chinese orphanages, while the
number of abandoned children shows no sign of slowing.” Read
“China: Children.” China World News (12/31/2002)
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- Estimated total in 1996 – fewer than 20,000 “Official
figures show that fewer than 20,000 of China's orphans are
now in any form of institutional care.” Read “Human Rights
Watch Condemns Fatal Neglect in China’s Orphanages.” Human
Rights Watch Press Release. (1/7/1996)
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- “Chinese official records fail to account for most of the
country’s abandoned infants and children, only a small
proportion of whom are in any form of acknowledged state
care. The most recent figure provided by the government for
the country’s orphan population, 100,000 seems implausibly
low for a country with a total population of 1.2 billion.
Even if it were accurate, however, the whereabouts of the
great majority of China’s orphans would still be a complete
mystery, leaving crucial questions about the country’s child
welfare system unanswered and suggesting that the real scope
of the catastrophe that has befallen China’s unwanted
children may be far larger than the evidence in this report
documents.” Read “Death by Default: A Policy of Fatal
Neglect in China’s State Orphanages.” Human Rights Watch.
(January 1996)
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