C. by Han Feizi. For decades, information about the shortage of girls in China has been manipulated. At the beginning, it was said that parents literally hid population censuses from their daughters because these indicated that the birth rate between boys and girls was normal. ; However, shortly thereafter it became clear that deaths among girls increased with each year of life, gradually reducing the proportion. One of the reasons to avoid having a female child, especially in rural areas, is that the male has more physical strength and therefore can play, do and work more demanding activities, which affects the family in economic matters. The conditions under which a couple must have a second child are established in each province, but almost everyone agrees that the first birth was a girl, the second born at least four years after the first, that the woman is over 28 years of age and that both parents are, at the same time, alone