Buyers of babies should also be prosecuted

Bringing up a child is not an easy task for any family, poor or rich. In China, it is even more challenging for parents, especially during the very early years, because one of their top concerns is making sure that their child won't become a target for human traffickers.

It is not unusual in this country to see reports of a child that has been abducted, normally a boy under the age of 5. A baby can even go missing when sleeping in bed at home. In one instance, a gynecologist, supposedly one of the first protectors of the new born babies she helped bring in to the world, made a huge amount of money by selling healthy babies to human traffickers after telling the babies' parents they were still-born.

These are just two cases, but they linger in my mind.