Day 2: I got to work in the childrens home today which was a great experience. I played mainly with toddlers between the ages of 3 and 5. This was great fun and it seemed the children were really enjoying themselves. Ee went to the park and they also seemed to be developing relation ships with eachother. I played with three kids the first ws named Tian Ci his minor problem was that he had a cleft palate, the second child's thigh was pushed up into her stomach making her left leg 7 inches shorter than her right. The third child also had a cleft palate. Before I was working in BCh3 (beijing childrens home 3), I spoke with Brent about why there are so many orphans. There are 4 types of orphans in China Care.
1. True(parents died)
2. Cultural( a condition or quality they posses is not accepted by their culture.)
3. Medical (they have a condition that is unfixable or the parents cannot pay for the child's condition to be fixed)
4. Birthplan (family wants a boy and gives up the girl because of
one child policy.)
The orphans at China Care are mainly medical and cultural. For example one 8 year old was abandoned because he is albino and his communitty does not accept that. When I walked into the classroom with Brent it looked like he was enjoying himself even while pleading to the english teacher in a thick chinese accent "no homework Holly."
The most shocking thing that I heard from Brent was that the majority of orphans in the china care children's homes were male. This is because many female children are aborted before they were actually born. So the reason that there are more male orphans with defects in China is because there are more males than females. In a regular orphanage the majority would probably be female because of the one-child policy. In China Care the gender ratio is true to population size since there are no birth plan orphans in China Care. China Care plans on moving to south china and starting another branch near guangzhou. They need more support to help the children of the rural areas of South China. Brent also has a good relationship with a state-run orphange in the west. He is planning to build a children's home there after he has made one in the south. Orphans come to China Care from state-run orphanages in three different Chinese cities near Beijing. They spend some time(if they can) in the local China Care branch preparing for Medical treatment. They then go to Beijing for medical treatment. The ideal case spends eight months with China Care and then finds foster parents and then gets adopted.
1. True(parents died)
2. Cultural( a condition or quality they posses is not accepted by their culture.)
3. Medical (they have a condition that is unfixable or the parents cannot pay for the child's condition to be fixed)
4. Birthplan (family wants a boy and gives up the girl because of
one child policy.)
The orphans at China Care are mainly medical and cultural. For example one 8 year old was abandoned because he is albino and his communitty does not accept that. When I walked into the classroom with Brent it looked like he was enjoying himself even while pleading to the english teacher in a thick chinese accent "no homework Holly."
The most shocking thing that I heard from Brent was that the majority of orphans in the china care children's homes were male. This is because many female children are aborted before they were actually born. So the reason that there are more male orphans with defects in China is because there are more males than females. In a regular orphanage the majority would probably be female because of the one-child policy. In China Care the gender ratio is true to population size since there are no birth plan orphans in China Care. China Care plans on moving to south china and starting another branch near guangzhou. They need more support to help the children of the rural areas of South China. Brent also has a good relationship with a state-run orphange in the west. He is planning to build a children's home there after he has made one in the south. Orphans come to China Care from state-run orphanages in three different Chinese cities near Beijing. They spend some time(if they can) in the local China Care branch preparing for Medical treatment. They then go to Beijing for medical treatment. The ideal case spends eight months with China Care and then finds foster parents and then gets adopted.
posted by SZS at 3:46 AM
1 Comments:
Many diseases and medical problems are more common in males, so one would expect medical orphans to be mostly male even if they came from a population that was 50% male.
Recently, a well known university president pointed out that mental retardation is more common among males. Unfortunately, virtually every reporter ignored the information but they made a big fuss over his parallel observation that high mental achievement is more common among males.
In situations in which there are children with mental impairment typically two thirds are males. It is sad that one only learns this from visiting such institutions; when learned scholars mention this it is ignored.
The overrepresentation of males among those with low and high intelligence balance out so the average intelligence of males is the same as that of females.
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