Chinese Parents Sell Kids To Fund Gaming Habits

[ObsessiveSketch]

Wait, I thought China had a child limit on families due to overpopulation. How can these idiots have 3?

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Stating that you didn't know it was illegal to sell your child is pretty ludicrous.

This is China, however. So I'm not entirely sure. I mean, a lot of people just get rid of their first born there if it isn't a boy, so...

Wait, I thought China had a child limit on families due to overpopulation. How can these idiots have 3?

They probably didn't have all of them at the same time. They probably got rid of them as they were born.

 

[Bags159]

Nice work, kids! GENIUS.

Says something about asian culture when a baby girl goes for less than 1/9 the price of a baby boy.

Anyone who opines that the west is morally bankrupt just saw their investments in asian culture vanish before their eyes.

Theres awful people everywhere

No, I think the real issue is that any of the kids were worth money to someone.

 

[William Ossiss]

im not surprised. to be frank, humans are the plague of the planet.

 

[antofdeath]

>.> Pfft pointless outrage, you all oversight something interesting, in China overpopulation is so common that it likely is very close to legal to sell your children, theres the whole "just leave them in the forest for the wolves" thing, but generally you have to look at it the same way north america deals with cats and dogs, they are just too many no matter how much you say you love them. As such these two probably did their child pretty damn good thing because if they were more interested in games at least the childs got some slave labour, likely more food then it would have gotten from those two and at 4500$ they could actually take care of themself unlike the what 1billion other chineese who are dieing in factories and such everywhere? Not to mention your reading news "Sold them for gaming" is of course out of context of something. Nubs, eat some troll.

 

[The Bandit]

The kid was stupid. This isn't. It's just evil.

 

[Tadd]

There really is nothing else to say but just wow. Why would they have kids when they are under 21 anyway?

Exactly

You need to consider, a person born and raised in China (within a developed city) is intellectually superior to any one here; however they lack common sense and so in this light their mental age is usually -5 years that of their physical. A lot of Chinese don't know about the birds and the bees until they reach university. We have a great deal of children in the western world who are already sexually curious by the age of 12!

Of course, this is a terrible act x3! However, is it any different from a surrogate mother offering to birth a child for two strangers (more often that not with money thrown into the equation)?

China has video games
The western world has meth

I know which one I'd rather my parents were addicted to

 

[JehuBot]

This might sums up what I wanna say:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTNP792ykYM

 

[Radoh]

Seems like an entirely rational and logical conclusion to me.
You don't want to raise your children, but you want to play games, so sell the children to buy games.
You know, except for the selling your kids to play games part.

 

[Toriver]

NOOoooooooo, games aren't addictive, not at all...

*headdesks at the sheer stupidity of the situation*

 

[Sizzle Montyjing]

For the love of God, I hope they sold them to people who wanted a child and not to sex slavery or something.

If they sold them to people who wished to raise them, then we only need for the couple in the story to be made infertile, and the story suddenly has a happy ending.

A happy story if you add 2 bullets in there aswell.

Seriously, who would do that?
An then say they didn't know it was illegal, thats like not knowing its illegal to kill somebody.

They should be deprived from all games for the rest of their lives.
Ohm, and never being allowed to have children.
Plus public shame, but i guess that ones already been taking care of.

When will humanity stop being so ridiculously stupid!?

 

[RabbidKuriboh]

AHAHAHAHAHA! that's my favourite topic title

 

[PunkRex]

Wait, what were they sold to?

I agree, hell if they were sold to (new) good, loving parents then surly this is for the best. These people sound like really sad people (by sad I mean saddo,s)so better the kids get out while their young.

 

[seizon]

Have to make a few points on this one.
1: This is wrong.
2: This is WRONG!
3: This is nothing new.
4: WRONG WRONG WRONG wrong WRONG!
5: Time for a movie quote, (Young Guns, Character's Name Yen Sun
Played by Alice Carter)
"In China, girls are not necessary. When we have
floods, fathers let the girl babies wash by. My
benefactor has made me necessary."
6: You are still wrong, and this is nothing new.
7: Just because this is nothing new; You are making an issue of
it for the sole reason that it just got some press; This happens
in a lot more cultures then just this one; and your trying to score
some good points(Karma/Honor/you get the idea); does not give you
a reason to not pay attention to social norms in other cultures.
8: History books. Read them, they are good for you.
9: This is still wrong.
10This is my personal opinion) The couple responsible should be dragged
out into the streets, locked in a public stockade for a month, then sterilized.
The people/service they sold the babies through should be shut down, dragged out
into the street, locked in public stockades for a year, then shot. I still
haven't figured out a good idea for the people that bought the babies, but I
would take that on a case by case basis.

This has been the short version of one persons opinion.

 

[tkioz]

/face palm.

Were they selling them to adoption agencies or to biological waste (also known as sex offenders)?

 

[WindKnight]

Wait, what were they sold to?

Yakuza or another gang likely. Don't know about the boys so much, but once she grows up, the girls probably got a bright future in underage prostitution ahead of her now.

China is a strongly patriarchal society. With the one-child per family limit, its been known to happen that parents will murder or abandon a girl in the hopes that their next attempt will get them a boy. The boys probably went to someone unable to bear children but who wanted an heir to carry on the family line.

 

[Catchy Slogan]

Ok, seriously people: There's this little thing called adoption...if you don't want to look after your spawn after going through all the damned trouble of bringing them into the world, take them to an orphanage. Ok, yeah, it ain't the BEST solution but...atleast they get looked after and considering half of the deplorable methods i've seen of people trying to get rid of their children and atleast they get looked after. Let me repeat this one more time for you all, don't sell your child into slavery, don't kill them, don't dump them in a river. Just, take them down to the local orphanage and place them there to be cared for by them. WHY IS THIS SO FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE TO GET IN PEOPLES HEADS NOWADAYS!? URGHHHHH!!!!!

I'm sorry if i went off on a tangent here but....JEEZE! This is low, i mean, REALLY fucking low!

It's illegal to abandon your kids, even at an orphanage, in China IIRC. Because then the state has to look after them.

 

[Alon Shechter]

Am I the only one who doesn't see anything wrong with this? It's simple logic
You need money to keep playing games
You and your wife can make something that is worth money
Make thing and sell it
When in need of more money make another and sell it
It's a simple financial problem with a simple solution.

Only what they sell is very much alive and kicking, not scrap collected from the street.

 

[Owlslayer]

Well don't that beat all.
But yeah, that's quite horrible to do, you know ,selling a human and all.

 

[Sonicron]

... Dear God. Never mind the illegality of the act, the immorality of it alone should have prevented these two from even considering it. Urgh. Psychopaths.