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The Dying Rooms Documentary Analysis
The documentary of “The Dying Rooms” is based upon China’s law of the one-child policy, and how orphanages were established as dying rooms for children. In 1978, China’s Deng Xiaoping implemented the one-child policy to limit births and reduce their overall population. However, they failed to create a law that would be child friendly, if a family failed to abide by this new law. It led to women having unwanted abortions, fathers being incarcerated, and homes being deprived of electricity and water. In addition, newborn children were being left abandoned on the streets, and placed in orphanages where they would suffer neglect. The majority of children abandoned were females or disabled, since demand for males was higher. Those who were placed

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