Father chains up boy to keep him safe outside Beijing shopping centre

[Blake Bowden]

So sad...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article7014172.ece

Sorry, but if you cannot afford to take care of your children, don't have them. If this was the US, that kid would be taken from his parents on the spot..

 

[drapetomaniac]

Sorry, but if you cannot afford to take care of your children, don't have them..

Well, they just limit the number outright in China. Which may explain why his daughter "disappeared"

I've seen a lot of ugly headlines on this. People forget it makes the news because it's unusual, rare and considered bizarre.