Dressed like a loser and went to raise a baby

Chapter 851 Legislative Protection
Since ancient times, this phenomenon has been common even in modern times where civilization is highly developed. It is even more prevalent in this feudal society.

It's just that during the feudal period, some people's methods of favoring boys over girls were even more barbaric and cruel. The abandoned baby towers left by the ancients are still standing in some places. Of course, no one dares to throw baby girls into them now, because of the abandoned babies. Illegal.

Newborn girls were abandoned into towers to fend for themselves, or were drowned or even burned. These incidents have also been recorded in history.

If a poor family has many daughters, they will be disgusted and will drown to death.

There are many factors causing this phenomenon.

There are no contraceptive measures, there are too many people and too little land to support the children. Men can become laborers, but women have to get married as soon as they grow up and cannot do anything for the family.

Marrying a daughter also requires a dowry. The married daughter becomes a member of another family and cannot bring benefits to the family or support her parents in their old age.

I feel that raising a daughter is useless and a waste of money.

But the tiger poison does not eat its seeds. It can suffocate, drown or burn its own children after birth. The main reason is that these people are cruel and have no respect for life.

"Are you saying that someone killed female infants?" Feng Chenghan asked, looking at Leng Luoyue with frowning eyebrows.

When he was young, he had read in his travel notes that a family had two daughters born in a row and then burned the newborn daughter to death. The travel notes said that the purpose of burning the baby girls was to scare the soul of the baby girls and not dare to be reincarnated in the world again. its home.

When he saw it, he just thought it was ridiculous. Even if the tiger's poison does not eat its children, it does not like to give birth to a daughter. If he treated her a little worse, he would not treat his own daughter so cruelly.

The stories in the travel notes must be fabricated.

But now that he heard Leng Luoyue say that the probability of having a boy or a girl was the same, but there was such a big gap in the number of boys and girls, he thought of the story written in the travel book again.

Perhaps what was written in the travelogue was not a fabrication, but something that really happened.

This is something that he, as a person in a high position, cannot see.

Leng Luoyue nodded, "I have been traveling around with my little cat in the past two years. I have heard about a lot of them, and I have seen two or three of them with my own eyes."

"One day, we passed by a village. It was a hot day. When we were washing our hands by the river at the entrance of the village, we saw a baby in the river. I thought someone's child had accidentally fallen into the river, so I quickly jumped into the river and fished the baby out. But the child was already dead."

"I asked the woman who was washing clothes by the river whether this child was from their village. The woman smiled and said: This is from the family of Ergou, the king of our village. His mother-in-law has given birth to a daughter. She wants to have another boy, but she didn't know that this child is from her village. The fetus was a daughter, and his family didn’t want to raise her, so they threw her into the river last night.”

As a modern person, seeing this kind of thing for the first time, she was shocked and angry.

She wanted to argue with Wang Ergou's family and ask them why they were so cruel and threw their children into the river to drown.

Even if you don’t want it, you might as well give the child up for adoption.

But the woman by the river smiled and said: "What's the use of having so many girls? When they are raised, they become someone else's family. Those who have filial piety can only carry pounds of sugar and pull pieces of cloth during festivals. That's not the case." I haven't been back to my parents' home for three to five years as a filial piety, so I don't blame Renwang Ergou for not wanting him." Afterwards, she felt a sense of powerlessness, and in the end she did nothing and dug a hole by the river to bury the child. .

Because she knew that even if she went to argue with Wang Ergou, nothing would change. If she had another daughter, Wang Ergou might still continue to do this. "Another day, I walked to Nandi and just sat down in front of a tea stall when I heard a customer at the tea stall saying that someone had just abandoned a baby girl in front of the tea stall. Baihualou's mother passed by and saw it. I kindly took the baby girl away.”

"By the way, there is another example. I rescued some women on Tiger Mountain before, and those women were also forced to give birth to bandits' children. If the child was born a boy, the bandits would stay. If the child was a girl, the bandits would stay. They will fall to death directly. Because they think boys can carry on the family line, but girls cannot, so even if they are extremely vicious bandits, they still keep their sons."

Feng Chenghan was furious when he heard this, and clenched his right hand into a fist, "When I get back to Kyoto, I will legislate that anyone who dares to drown a baby girl at will will be punished with a hundred sticks and exiled for three thousand miles."

Legislation is very necessary. Many people regard children as their own private property and can dispose of them at will. They do not treat children as individuals.

Once a child is born, he is a living human life and has the right to life. Even parents cannot deprive them of their life.

Although legislation cannot fundamentally change the phenomenon of favoring sons over daughters, after all, China is now 21 years old and the phenomenon of favoring sons over daughters has not been eradicated.

Leng Luoyue did not have the appropriate method or the confidence to completely put an end to this phenomenon in feudal society.

However, legal restrictions can still reduce the occurrence of drowning of baby girls after birth.

But legislation alone is not enough.

Leng Luoyue looked at Fengcheng Han and said: "This should be legislated, but it cannot just be legislated. It must be promoted that children are the future of the country. They not only belong to the parents, but also belong to the country. Even parents cannot deprive them at will. s life."

"We can also set up a reporting system. If the whistleblower abandons infanticide or child abuse, the government can reward the whistleblower after verification."

When a pair of cruel parents gives birth to an unwanted child, but the law does not allow them to dispose of the child, then someone is bound to get angry with the child. Although the child is raised, they abuse the child through various means.

Therefore, child abuse should also be included. There will be rewards for reporting, and there will be people watching around. Those who are vicious and want to kill their children or abuse their children will naturally not dare to do such things.

Feng Chenghan's eyes lit up, and he felt that Leng Luoyue's proposal was very good. A reporting system should be set up so that vicious parents would not dare to kill and abuse children.

Ah Yue is right, children are the future, they not only belong to their parents, but also to the country. As the king of a country, he should also protect all children.

"And..." Leng Luoyue said again, "What causes this kind of thing to happen is also because of the word "poor". The more children are born, the poorer the family becomes. There are more people and less land, and they cannot afford to feed them."

"However, men are the labor force, so some families with many children will choose to give up the baby girl after the baby girl is born. In addition to legislation, the root cause of the problem also needs to be solved."

"How to solve it?" Feng Chenghan asked seriously.

Leng Luoyue said: "Whenever the common people give birth to a child, they are allowed to cultivate an acre of wasteland. The people in the wasteland can cultivate it. After three years of cultivation, they will start paying taxes like other fields, but they cannot be bought or sold and it will be owned by the state."

A flash of light flashed in Fengcheng's cold pool-like phoenix eyes, "It cannot be bought or sold, it belongs to the country?"

(End of this chapter)