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TIL of Vietnam’s girl abduction problem. Chinese one child policy led to an imbalance as parents preferred boys over girls. There are no girls for the boys to marry and has caused a kidnapping industry where girls are abducted from neighboring vietnam for Chinese boys to marry or for prostitution.

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